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

I always hated the hard thin reed of her laugh.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Necessity seemed an increasingly thin reed to support her deception.

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