"thin" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

thin adjetivo

thin + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 397
thin layer • thin air • thin line • thin man • thin slice • thin lip • thin film • thin strip • thin sheet • thin smile • thin ice • thin stream • ...
verbo + thin
Kolokacji: 15
wear thin • stretch thin • grow thin • look thin • spread thin • ...
adverbio + thin
Kolokacji: 41
extremely thin • relatively thin • pretty thin • painfully thin • somewhat thin • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 11
(1) extremely, exceedingly
Kolokacji: 2
(2) relatively, comparatively
Kolokacji: 2
(5) dangerously, perilously
Kolokacji: 2
(6) impossibly, incredibly
Kolokacji: 2
1. slightly thinner = nieco węższy slightly thinner
2. skeletally thin = skeletally wąski skeletally thin
  • He was skeletally thin and ghostly pale, in his Durona-issued grey suit.
  • The people were skeletally thin and if the children had wept tears of corn, their parents would have eaten them with gratitude.
  • Those with anorexia, on the other hand, have such a strong fear of gaining weight that they starve themselves despite becoming skeletally thin.
  • A woman at my gym is skeletally thin, and yet she exercises for hours.
  • It has a long and skeletally thin fourth finger, which it uses for precisely the same purpose.
  • A tall man, skeletally thin, lifted an arm in greeting and waved her over.
  • They all looked, with varying degrees of disbelief, as a skeletally thin creature lurched toward them.
  • A skeletally thin figure, very short by modern standards, sat slumped on the ledge.
  • A small, skeletally thin man with a high, square forehead walked past the rock where they breakfasted.
3. cadaverously thin = cadaverously wąski cadaverously thin
(8) noticeably, invisibly
Kolokacji: 2
(10) considerably, infinitesimally
Kolokacji: 2
(11) increasingly, progressively
Kolokacji: 2
thin + preposición
Kolokacji: 10
thin with • thin on • thin in • thin of • thin for • ...

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