They are often short and sometimes have an extra thickness of skin around the neck, lending them a football player's aspect.

These give the extra thickness needed for the flare of the ears, the eyebrows and the cheekbone.

A back splice adds extra thickness to the rope end, preventing it from running through blocks and sheaves.

This approach adds no extra thickness at the hemline (which is sometimes desirable).

He was just short of six feet and thin but for the extra thickness in his wrists.

How many is too many obviously depends on the extra thickness of the yarn.

Trace the outline of the old door onto the new one, using your notes as a guide to add extra thickness where necessary.

Her neck was getting veiny but it was either that or the beginnings of an extra thickness around the waist.

Due to the extra thickness, the bleeding is unusually heavy.

Without this extra thickness, women have evolved to be able to pull heat-carrying blood in toward their cores as a preservation mechanism.