Many also say that they have been worn thin by overtime in the wake of Sept. 11.

It was thin and muted by its passage through time, just a muttering.

"And what with this new diet, I'll probably be real thin by the time I get there."

The budgets of many news organizations, the paper explains, have been stretched thin by travels with Clinton.

Frank's voice was getting thinner and weaker by the second.

Why direct attention to the thin by makiig it more difficult?

Her body was small and delicately built, thin by all but a dancer's standards.

The air in the cabin was a good deal thinner and cooler by the time Chuck came back.

But the haze might be too thin by the time it gets there to have much effect on theinvaders.

Not an unattractive woman, she was thin by Russian standards.