But this is a thin reed, growing thinner all the time.

I always hated the hard thin reed of her laugh.

So we're down to the last hope, and it's a mighty thin reed.

He found himself trying to picture it, this thin reed of a being with the large brain and the incredibly long hands.

Only the thin, frail reed of me could prevent it.

But they all knew that this was a thin reed, after the apartment had been vacant for a month.

But he added that the low unemployment rate is a particularly "thin reed" for working families to hang onto.

He was tall, a thin reed of a man who had to bend over to give her the quick kiss.

Necessity seemed an increasingly thin reed to support her deception.

Bair's voice was thin and high, yet strong, a reed of iron.