The envelopes looked like greeting cards, but they contained paper-thin sheets of Semtex, a powerful plastic explosive.

She has to use paper-thin sheets of mountain bread because there is a shortage of all other kinds.

It fell to the floor between Marshall and the Japanese-a 50-square-foot big paper-thin sheet.

What if he flattened the alloy into a paper-thin sheet and then smoothed the local steel over it?

The bark peels off, too, in paper-thin sheets.

A clamp of artificial matter took it, and held the paper-thin sheet, many feet square, in the air.

The first was a paper-thin sheet of roasted quince sitting on top of the cup like a lid.

She was flattening a mound of dough into a paper-thin sheet, back and forth with a rolling pin.

The last restoration required 140,000 paper-thin sheets of 23.75-carat gold leaf at a cost $500,000 (more than the initial cost of the building).

He flipped the paper-thin sheets of liquid crystal screens to display pages of the rivals.