| In Voyage the dust devil merely sweeps by and we are told that the atmosphere is so thin on Mars that such mini-tornadoes do not pose much risk. |
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| Despite its thin crust of moderate strength, the clay becomes much softer with depth. |
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| Our experimental setup consists of a custom-made Langmuir trough milled 7 from a solid piece of virgin Teflon epoxied to a thin copper plate. |
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| What's under threat here is simply civilization, the thin crust we lay across the seething magma of nature, including human nature. |
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| A post-doc was working on a cryostat, cutting microscopically thin sections of tissue. |
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| A thin layer of material is applied to the front of a tooth to improve its appearance. |
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| In cucumber, muskmelon, and other cucurbitaceous seeds, a thin envelope completely encloses the embryo. |
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| The culture war, like a flower war, is meant to thin the ranks of the people who trigger these feelings. |
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| Cut the beef fillet into thin slices and, layered between sheets of plastic film, beat until extremely thin. |
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| The dynamics are mixed and it builds well but most of the time it's soft and thin or thick and full sound. |
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| If your hair is naturally thin or fine use a great volume enhancing shampoo to add fullness. |
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| The samples were arranged as flat as possible and wrapped in a single layer of thin polyethylene film. |
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| That first night as we struggled for several hours to find a cushiony spot on the cracker thin futon mattress, we became aware of the winds. |
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| Because of the emulsifying properties of lecithin, very thin sauces, such as a fish fumet can be used. |
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| Instead of thin custard for ices, try making a thick bay custard and use it to fill sweet pastry tartlets. |
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| Sure it's a bit corny and the plots are thin as well worn blue jeans, but it's all in fun, and the visitors seem to take it that way. |
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| In a cutaway view of a cartridge case, we can see that the bottom of the primer pocket is quite thin compared to the rest of the base. |
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| The choice of solvent mixture gives a good adhesion to the glass surface and results in thin films covering the glass plates. |
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| The ill-dressed children wore thin uniforms and light coats, without the felt boots and fur hats that the Russians wore. |
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| There was a thin rope laying spread out on the floor by the wall furthest from my bed. |
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| Look at it closely and you'll see stems as thin as fuse wire supporting dazzling-white, tiny blooms like a mass of twisted fairy lights. |
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| The short length of thin fuse wire is visible between the two spade connectors through the fuse body. |
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| She also explained Hurrion furniture was basic, their beds comparable to oriental futons, a thin mattress on a sturdy portable cot. |
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| She practically burned her hands since the pot holders had been worn thin and there was no room on the counter to put it down. |
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| Until recently, techniques for determining atomic structure haven't been agile enough to test liquids, except as very thin films. |
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| Sometimes a thin needle is used to puncture the cyst and take out fluid to test for the Echinococcus infection. |
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| The pouf was retrieved, and soon her face was powdered in a very thin layer of chalky white, barely there. |
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| Tonight there was a thin sheet of ice stretching glassily across it, and the wind was silent. |
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| The ability to cut very thin bread was greatly prized and dainty bread and butter was often served for afternoon tea. |
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| The thief was as thin as a willow branch and cut open the bulging purses with the ease and dexterity of a practiced and experienced thief. |
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| All dama gazelles have thin legs and a long, slender neck, as well as long, S-shaped horns, which are larger and thicker in males. |
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| Sculpted from wooden strips separated by thin aluminum dividers, each panel consists of an array of wells of equal width but different depths. |
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| Transfer olive oil ganache to pastry bag fitted with flat, narrow tip and pipe thin layer over biscuit. |
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| All possess an extremely thin epicuticle and a thick, massive outer exocuticle. |
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| She pulled her dark wavy curls out of her face and anchored her thin frame against Zeeks's side. |
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| The darter, found most often in the thin streams flowing throughout the training area, is a small 2-inch long fish that eats insect larvae. |
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| Dishes are often garnished with eggs, cooked into a thin omelette and then rolled, before being sliced into strips. |
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| One by one they stepped out onto the thin cable slung beneath each yard-arm to pull up the sails and make the gaskets fast. |
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| It is a gorgeously effete, nearly 3-foot bronze sculpture of a supplicant ephebe wearing a laurel crown, his thin arms upraised. |
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| Her elfin face was thin and angular, almost gaunt, with a small, straight nose. |
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| The soldier was dark-haired and thin almost to the point of gauntness, with pale cheeks. |
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| Such relationships take time to build and can't be conjured out of thin air in the midst of a presidential campaign. |
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| It was high off the floor, curtained by a thin gauzy material and shrouded in dark despite the sunlight filtering through the window. |
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| In keeping with the nostalgic tone of the movie, he presents things in a gauzy brown-and-white with a thin sheen of color. |
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| Nanotube connectors as thin as 1.2 nanometers are theoretically capable of supplying sufficiently large electric currents to integrated circuits. |
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| At the mention of its name a thin dog with short fine hair came at attention beside Jen. |
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| For the final piece, the tattered, perforated forepaper hung from thin silver prongs protruding from the wall. |
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| After a storm, you look out the window to see the glisten of fresh snow blanketing the ground and thin icicles dangling from the trees. |
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| In 1909, thin high-speed knives started to appear in jointers, planers, molders, etc. |
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| Most of the large crystals have glassy terminations formed by an overgrowth of a thin layer of clear quartz. |
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| Those images were captured by computer chips and displayed using thin computer screens. |
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| The curves were achieved by laminating thin boards, gluing them together and shaping them with a vise. |
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| The rain drenched him instantly, plastering his hair to his head and soaking through his thin shirt and trousers. |
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| If you just want to thin the growth, you can remove branches using your pruners or loppers by cutting the branch back to a fork. |
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| The area had become barren because it was deforested and had lost the thin layer of rich soil. |
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| Margins are so thin that even modest growth will translate into a big percentage gain in profits. |
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| The pressure to look reed thin has severe psychological impacts on one's mind. |
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| Once the frame had been moulded, paper-thin gold leaf was applied to the wood over a thin layer of gesso plaster. |
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| Jay Sylvan, age 18, is as thin as an exclamation point, and the golf club looks like a natural extension of his physique. |
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| We could create, for example, a thin n-type region surrounded by a p-type region. |
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| It was a good size with a thin crust and was, as you would expect from an Italian restaurant, freshly baked. |
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| The plateau consists of extensive areas of barren rock, or hills with a thin cover of drought-resistant vegetation. |
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| Our group has recently discovered that carbon nanotube dispersions applied in very thin layers form highly transparent conductive films. |
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| Lia placed her hands on her lap, the overwhelming cold biting through her thin blouse and sending goose pimples creeping over her flesh. |
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| Like a miniature version of Earth's plate tectonics, thin slabs of basalt crust jostle about, driven by the heat below. |
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| Extremely thin or fat dogs are discouraged on the basis that under or overweight hampers the true working ability of the Gordon Setter. |
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| In the highest resolution images, active geysers were seen spewing columns of dark material many kilometers into the thin atmosphere. |
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| But there were the hoof marks, llama droppings, and thin hard lines like bike tracks gouged into the clay by iron-bound wheels. |
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| Crystals to 3 cm are reported, although most cubanite occurs in isolated grains, granular masses, or thin lamellae in chalcopyrite. |
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| By 14,000 ft, the air would have started to become too thin to breathe, causing severe disorientation. |
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| Dalmius nursed the invigorating fire-drink from a horn-flask, ensconced in leather, e'en as his thin hands trembled. |
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| They consist of thin sheets of collagen and smooth muscle with an endothelial covering. |
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| Like other high, thin clouds, contrails reflect sunlight back into space and cool the planet. |
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| It had a thin plumed mane of red and black across the top of the helmet fanning out like the feathers of a peacock. |
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| Using ultrasound guidance, vascular surgeons insert a thin wire into the saphenous vein. |
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| Next comes up a pair of elastic sides, thin and seedy, with the sole worn out, and dusted red. |
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| Her father's thin lips twisted into a grimace of such severity that they all but vanished from existence. |
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| The thin film of wax which adheres to the face of the electro is removed by placing it upon a wire rack. |
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| Now that shrill declamation is wearing decidedly thin with an electorate that is waking up to this overrated suburban solicitor. |
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| Other elementary particles can be created out of thin air from pure energy. |
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| Parents however were thin on the ground except for the usual dedicated few. |
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| These people are quite exceptionally brave, but are still very thin on the ground. |
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| They say the streets are becoming no-go areas at night, with yobs causing mayhem and police already too thin on the ground to tackle the problem. |
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| In order to keep weight down, the teak decking is quite thin and harsh abrasives and repeated pressure washing will eventually wear out the teak. |
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| The body of geometer moths is thin and more fragile looking than in other macromoths. |
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| As we dip thin slices of raw geoduck into seasoned soy, the clean, fresh sweetness of the clam seems to affirm these thoughts. |
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| The actual model we use is that of a thin elastic plate that overlies an inviscid fluid. |
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| I peel a chunk of weathered paint off, and hold the thin papery flake in my palm. |
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| In this method, clear sticky tape was pressed firmly into sample areas and rapidly pulled away, removing thin flakes of biotite with the tapes. |
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| The years-old paint that covered the thin frame was chipped and flaking off, revealing the bare steel underneath. |
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| A shy, quiet laugh from Werner, his thin face with its pockmarks suffused by the joy that love gives. |
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| He's short but not too short, thin but not anemic, and his red hair is bright without being flaming. |
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| The grape pulp could be subject to a second pressing, or even, after being soaked for a day, a third, to produce a thin drink for slaves. |
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| The sacromere is composed of thin and thick filaments, proteinous filaments composed of actin and myosin, respectively. |
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| The brief flare of light showed him short hair, thin but not angular face, and dark eyes. |
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| Four specimens appear to be products of failed attempts to create points from very thin flakes. |
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| Rarely chalcopyrite appeared as a thin film on sphalerite crystal faces, giving specimens a slight iridescence. |
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| The thin sheet of circular muscle of the iris which constricts the pupil of the eye is also known as a sphincter. |
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| It is a sort of thin flatbread, made with sprouted seeds that have been ground and dehydrated. |
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| The stem resembles the earth's litosphere with a thin layer of living organisms spread out over its surface. |
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| Recently the macrocytosis has been described as being of three types, the thin macrocyte, the thick macrocyte, and the target macrocyte. |
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| A coping saw has a c-shaped frame and a handle, which is turned to tighten a thin flexible blade. |
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| As the disease kills the lower branches of larger trees, their crowns become very thin and umbrella shaped. |
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| But the recording suffers from numerous dropouts in sound, and comes off thin and harsh. |
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| The window was open and now and then the thin curtains stirred and the candle guttered. |
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| The droopiness of her face only served to accentuate the sharp corners of her thin mouth. |
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| He stayed with the club through thick and thin and nothing disgruntled him. |
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| Overlying the Corallian are the marine mudstones and thin limestones of the Kimmeridge Clay, which underlies the Vale of Pickering. |
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| Alaine nodded and began rummaging round in the small dark brown suede money pouch she wore on a loose thin strand of black cord around her waist. |
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| Pierce small holes through the hands, and string the clowns together with thin silver cord. |
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| As you add more oil, you can increase the rate of drizzle to a thin stream. |
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| You may also cover the polyethylene with a thin layer of sand or a thin slab of concrete to protect it from damage. |
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| Four appear to be large oval containers with walls of narrow, horizontal, cordlike coils, and they sit on thin rectangular bases. |
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| What was it, exactly, about the thin red dribble on top of the sloshy substance which was supposed to make it instantly more alluring? |
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| Liposomes encapsulating G-actin assumed mostly thin disk shapes and some large irregularly shaped aggregates. |
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| Cut the fennel from top to root into thin slices and cut out the tough core. |
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| Cut the peppers in half, discard the core and seeds, and slice each half into long, thin fingers. |
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| She opened the jar and dribbled a thin line of clear liquid over his cuts, one by one. |
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| The downside is that sometimes you end up publishing a very thin issue as was the case February. |
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| Butler alleged that his thin Marine units bled less to aid isthmian residents than to advance American corporations' interests. |
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| Breads vary from fried rings of rice-flour, to Gurung corn cakes, to the Indian flat, thin wheat-flour disks and the smaller, fried puri. |
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| Cut the beef into thin strips and marinate in sesame oil, cornflour, garlic, and half the soy sauce and rice wine. |
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| The landscape is punctuated by hills which are often topped with a thin band of limestone known locally as cornstone. |
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| Some quality caddies and tea chests were made in coromandel wood and were decorated with inlays of engraved brass, brass thin lines, and shell. |
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| And that night with the keys hard beneath my thin flock pillow, I heard the voices clearly for the first time. |
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| Assured walls are in fact dreadfully thin and people wake each other up in the night all the time, and have no auditory privacy. |
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| Police described the offender as white, aged about 17, of thin build, with short, dark, floppy hair, protruding ears and a crooked nose. |
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| You would think needles might be discomforting, but these are very thin needles. |
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| The drawly words from his thin lips got the attention of all and his phrases rang through. |
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| I was the lead singer and used to wear tight red drainpipe trousers and thin ties. |
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| Bony erosion occurs in chronic cases and tends to be periarticular, well corticated and have a thin overhanging edge. |
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| Unwrap the dough and transfer to a lightly floured work surface and roll as thin as possible. |
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| On a lightly floured surface, roll the dough into a thin round and line a flan tin with it. |
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| These perfectly round medium-sized apples are gloriously red with a thin skin and sweet crunchy flesh with no hint of flouriness. |
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| The masonry is finished with a thin wash of dove grey mortar, muting imperfection while still revealing the joints below. |
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| She had a pale face with just a hint of eye shadow on her lids and a very thin but very black line of eyeliner. |
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| Then I put a thin line of black eyeliner on my bottom lid and a flare on the top lid. |
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| She had dark eye shadow with eyeliner that made her eyes look thin and really quite beautiful. |
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| After putting a thin layer of brown eyeliner and black mascara, she was almost good to go. |
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| Then, the superior portion of the excision is always in the thin skin of the eyelid. |
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| This arrived on a plate with the coulis arranged in geometric patterns, outlined by thin chocolate borders. |
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| His lips were set into a thin line, his eyes narrowed, and he looked positively dangerous. |
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| Even the poor postman was baffled when he came to collect the post only to discover that the postbox had apparently disappeared into thin air. |
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| Slowly she raised a thin hand to her face and swiped at the rain that clung to her hair and eyelashes. |
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| Pulling a moment, he finally extracted a pair of flat metallic disks on a thin chain. |
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| The adapters are thin and light, and the Targus model doubles as a charger for your cell phone. |
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| With a jackknife, he whittled a point on a thin green stick pulled from a maple branch. |
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| Thin veal is sandwiched between sharp fontina and a half dozen thin stalks of pungent asparagus. |
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| Now with all the new plastics, even with thin wispy smoke you need compressed air breathing apparatus. |
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| They usually consist of a very thin opal slice sandwiched between a glass or quartz top and a potch, basanite, jade, or black onyx bottom. |
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| With the thin flush of grass on the high slopes fast shriveling up, it is time for local people to cull old, unwanted horses and donkeys. |
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| The rear footwell swallows the thin third seat when folded, and places the seatback flush with the load floor. |
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| They have two long slender wings, completely covered with scales, a thin skin covers them almost like fabric. |
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| A thin layer of golden glitter covered the stone floor, making it shimmer like the lavender dust on her eyes. |
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| Exhausted, he climbed into bed, pulling the thin covers up to his chin, then over his head. |
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| The faster ones, I'm sure, reach the cover of thin weeds and underbrush and make a new life for themselves. |
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| The hard ones, which are also called rigid contact lenses, are thin disks made of hard plastic. |
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| Electrons pass through a thin disk, and are multiplied, these electrons bounce off a phosphor screen which converts them back to light. |
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| Before getting up she pulled the thin coverlet, on the bottom of many layers of bedding, to throw it over her shoulders. |
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| Incorporate five eggs and continue mixing well to have a good forcemeat which you may thin with broth. |
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| Flow cells were fabricated by assembling two glass coverslips separated by a thin layer of parafilm. |
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| I used to sit at the kitchen table and covetously turn the thin pages, dog earring necessities to be pointed out to my parents. |
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| As Egewe watched, she pinched her lips with her thumb and forefinger, nervously stroking the thin skin of her lips. |
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| A vintage train is helping foresters faced with a conservation dilemma to thin trees. |
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| The forewings of the live moths were sprayed with a thin layer of spray glue and then coated with UV-reflecting or UV-absorbing powder. |
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| Hazelnut dacquoise, a milk chocolate thin with praline, and chocolate ganache. |
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| The typical crappie has a large mouth with thin jaw tissue and tends to be a soft, even tentative striker. |
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| It was a gourmet meal compared to the thin gruel we had been living off of mostly. |
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| Bosch designed a thin inner liner of soft steel that sealed the gases in, its pressure load supported by a stout perforated steel jacket. |
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| I lay down on the bed, a thin mattress covered by state white sheets, and whispered above the din. |
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| Mammoth skulls are made of light and thin bone and usually disintegrate before they can be fossilised. |
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| They have a small head with a long, thin pipe-like snout and a tail that is about half their total length. |
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| He is described as Asian, aged about 25, thin and wearing a light blue jacket with white piping. |
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| The view is from Titan's night side, making the moon appear as a thin crescent. |
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| On the left-hand side of the carapace, a thin crescentic ridge marks the position of one of the paired lateral eyes. |
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| The dashboard was marked with dints and encrusted in a thin layer of dust and grime. |
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| The glacier is riddled with crevasses, and the route is often disguised by a thin blanket of new snow. |
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| Makers of electric components will want to know the dielectric or conductive properties of their thin films. |
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| Laughing Katie pulled out a bell shaped cage made of thin bendable wood while Krystal pulled out a slip of several layers of stiff crinoline. |
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| Some posh wafers might be good here, or some homemade shortbread, baked really thin and crisp. |
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| One of the women, a wrinkled crone, smiled, her thin lips pulling back to reveal yellow teeth. |
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| She had incredibly short, cropped dark hair and little curls that framed her thin face. |
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| Here the thin gasses are composed of ionized particles and consequently act as electrical conductors. |
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| This insecurity persisted as I entered my teens, and my desire to be thin consumed my life. |
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| Note that the sartorius muscle has become a thin band as it crosses over and behind the medial condyle of the femur. |
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| This is a long thin instrument with a light source at its tip, to light up the inside of the abdomen or pelvis. |
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| A lock of his thin blond hair fell free from under his helmet, dangling on his high forehead. |
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| These free electrons can then tunnel through a thin oxide layer on top of the niobium where they are detected as excess current. |
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| The spring 2005 collection features thin fourteen-karat-gold strands interlaced with small garnets, emeralds, pink tourmalines, and other stones. |
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| Skittles come shaped like mushrooms or as small thin posts with metal crosspieces. |
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| If there are too many freeloaders that means thin soup and rice, and if nobody volunteers to cook, nobody eats. |
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| The guy had a long thin coat wrapped around him, its corners flapping as he walked. |
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| A thin breeze caught some strands of her short hair and sent some waves flapping in the wind. |
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| Pale, grey gas escaped in a thin cloud from a minor vent on the side of the small craft. |
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| The doors opened and two aged citizens emerged, a withered old crow and a thin old duffer. |
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| Forward exchange rate markets might be thin and be priced in a non-competitive fashion. |
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| Sympathy for what he himself has overcome since last August is strangely thin on the ground. |
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| Staffordshire oatcakes are thicker and round, more like a thin crumpet or modern pikelet, and are fried with bacon for breakfast. |
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| The pastry was paper thin and crisp and the filling had that lovely burnt-toffee taste. |
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| At this point, the ulcers may develop thin crusts or verrucous changes or may continuously drain serous fluid. |
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| The bankers have secured the privilege of creating money, which they do out of thin air. |
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| Her document was trifolded to fit into a thin pigskin leather envelope. |
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| People sit around a tall circular basket with a flat top, where the large, round, thin sourdough bread called injera is laid and the various foods are put down upon it. |
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| The blended clay was then formed into a brick, a thin slice of which was inlaid into a shallow recessed channel around the body of the teapot and adhered with wet slip. |
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| A thin high resistance coating is typically ineffective for EMI shielding purposes and therefore rules out the use of conductively coated plastics, such a polyester. |
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| Microscopically, thin branching hyphae with pyriform conidia can be seen. |
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| For the first time Ian notices that she's wearing nothing but a silk nightgown, so thin and filmy that it looks like gold paint brushed over her body. |
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| With three consanguineous marriages of monarchs in only five generations, it could be said that the royal blood was running a bit thin in Britain. |
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| The nest, a platform made from thin sticks, lined with bark and greenery, is typically placed at a major crotch in a tree, 25-50 feet off the ground. |
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| The ball was very hard for it was plated in a very thin layer of metal. |
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| An electric current is passed through the solution, which results in the deposition of a thin metal plating in the desired thickness on the cathode. |
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| I've always had thin lips and I wanted them plumped up to be fashionable. |
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| Although peeling isn't essential because this variety has a rather thin skin, it is an easy matter to plunge them into boiling water, drain and then slip off the skins. |
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| This approach preserves native structure by rapidly freezing the specimen in a thin aqueous layer by plunging into cryogen, without the use of fixatives or stains. |
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| Spence studied a two-dimensional airfoil placed in an inviscid, incompressible, steady fluid flow, in particular a thin jet coming from its trailing edge of the airfoil. |
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| I then add thin slices of lemon cooked gently in sugar syrup. |
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| Roll into a thin disc, and use a cookie cutter to take out shapes. |
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| She pulled out her wallet, which consisted of three credit cards, a few coins, something that looked remotely like a dentist pick and a thin flathead screwdriver. |
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| With all seven seats in place, there is no boot space beyond room for a few tall and thin items, such as flat-packed furniture or a fashion model. |
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| Their long white necks were flecked with the tiniest feathers of iridescent azure and jade and they walked on their thin bright yellow legs with a magnificent strut. |
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| She was short and as fat and soft-fleshed as he was thin and leathery. |
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| Wrap one end of a 6-inch piece of thin elastic cording under a second grommet, then set it in place on the back of the card, securing the cord underneath the grommet. |
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| In thin section, however, it is a brilliant green, isotropic mineral. |
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| In time, seismograph recordings enabled geologists to determine that Earth has a dense core surrounded by a slowly flowing mantle and a thin outer crust. |
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| Although still a bit on the thin side, Eric was not one to let his body waste into corpulence, as his Father seemed content to be doing in his later years. |
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| It wears thin after a while, but the pace is kept up by Vaguen's malaprops, slightly off analogies and clever reworking of typical pop psychology dogma. |
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| The cortex and plasma membrane were modeled as thin elastic shells. |
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| In addition, there is a thin veneer of sediments covering the subducting plates, which contain large volumes of unbound pore water and water and carbonate-bearing minerals. |
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| As the dawn broke 700,000 people broke through the thin line of Cossacks. |
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| Our last station was a bit awkward as we had to lie on flowstone with a thin sheet of water flowing over it, but at least it was the last station. |
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| The family crest is a field azure, chevrony doubly cottised, which means the field is blue, with very thin lines of ermine forming the shape of a chevron. |
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| Billions of tiny whiskers create a thin cushion of air above the cotton fabric, smoothing out wrinkles and allowing liquids to bead up and roll off without a trace. |
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| On a lightly floured surface, roll out the pastry to form a thin circle or rectangle, place it on a lightly greased baking sheet or tin, and lip or flute the edge. |
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| In 1647 Cavalieri published an important contribution to optics when he gave the relationship between the curvature of a thin lens and its focal length. |
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| The thin paper was lifted as he slid his thumb under the fold. |
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| His face looked weary and he was carrying a thin folder under his arm. |
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| It often serves as an excellent dark backing for black opals which normally have a thin segment of precious opal naturally formed on a potch backing. |
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| A large bowl of steaming couscous was served with a huge potful of some kind of tender chicken stew with vegetables and chickpeas in a thin spicy gravy. |
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| It's a thin slice of veal with crab on top, topped with a sauce. |
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| His lips formed into a thin line when he saw Jason wrap his arm around me. |
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| The theoretic Bessel function is characterized by an infinite number of oscillations and corresponds to the model form factor of infinitely long and thin hollow columns. |
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| The cremaster is a thin muscle that regulates the height of the testicles. |
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| Using a thin spatula, flip the crape and continue to cook or one minute. |
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| The moon appeared as a thin crescent in the dark, cloudy blue sky. |
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| Conway's eyes crinkled up in a smile that almost reached his thin lips. |
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| True courage involved secretly washing a thin camp uniform or crocheting underwear from stolen yarn in order to maintain some semblance of humanity. |
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| Volcanic rocks that crop out in the mine area are part of the Portage Lake Volcanics and consist of thin lava flows and interbedded sedimentary rocks. |
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| Basement rocks crop out along the entire La Hague peninsula in a number of fault-bounded blocks and as thin layers separated by intrusive Cadomian igneous bodies. |
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| She crossed her long thin legs and rested her chin on her hands. |
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| The paper was thin and the edges were beginning to fray from age. |
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| Culture involves a hanging sheet of acrylic of an approximate pine-tree shape, on which are mounted 26 petri dishes, most containing thin cross sections of rolled canvas. |
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| My old swimming goggles fit perfectly on the thin cross section of birch. |
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| This is a combination of the thin cross section and the poor clamp design. |
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| For homecomings and family gatherings, there is usually a sumptuous spread of cakes and pastries, including crullers and thin pancakes rolled around whipped cream. |
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| This was a divine combination, the piquant, smoky butter oozing into the juices, the dish nicely finished off with some thin root vegetables crisps and crunchy chard. |
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| Lines as corny as this can have someone in the audience break into laughter, and the thin crust of magic that keeps the film afloat will fall into splinters. |
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| A thin crust of coral is rooted in the sea bed by a fixture of limestone. |
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| Bake the cupcakes in the middle of the oven until a toothpick or thin knife inserted in the center of a cupcake comes out clean, about 30-35 minutes. |
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| She is much happier with her mature, more curvy figure than she was with the long, thin frame and twig-like legs that typified the look of the Sixties. |
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| The screenplay is as thin as the funny papers from which it sprang. |
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| The ear canal is closed at its inner end by a thin diaphragm of stretched skin known as the eardrum or tympanic membrane, which vibrates as the air pressure changes. |
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| Uncommon in the U.S., it can be used in mild climates to create thin earthen walls, but lacks the thermal mass or insulation desirable in other climates. |
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| Special attention was given to the altar screen, which is made using an extremely complicated technique of thin and delicately carved ivory, ebony and mahogany plates. |
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| One illustration is dated to the late ninth century and shows a Dane and two companions with thin plates attached to the front of their hose and reaching from knee to instep. |
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| As we shouldered our daypacks, the sun broke through a thin haze of clouds, and melting snow soon revealed a patchwork of meadow and forest lying in gentle folds before us. |
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| His face is thin nearly to gauntness, and covered with sad lines. |
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| And the attendant was a thin greying geezer, way past retirement. |
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| The gaps between the white topaz prongs were wide enough for the broadsword's blade to slip through, as it was relatively thin despite the length. |
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| The stream went from wide and shallow to thin and proportionately deep. |
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| The boundary between the epidermis and dermis is demarcated by a thin membrane and by complex structures which ensure tight anchorage of each to the other. |
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| The line of demarcation is so thin that they merge seamlessly. |
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| Jude was as thin as a stick and his bones protruded through sallow skin. |
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| Pious people, along with neglectful officials and prurient newspapers, need not worry about the thin dividing line between the demon and the normal citizen. |
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| The goggled girl stopped eating and looked up slowly from her stew, her movements meticulously controlled, arching a thin eyebrow about her goggles. |
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| They are wonderful eggs, gloriously random, massive great things alongside tiny pullets' eggs, round ones, tall thin ones, brown, white, speckled. |
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| He makes it quite clear that he dislikes the type of thin trim figures that are portrayed in the media and beauty magazines as beautiful and desirous. |
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| She looks at me from outside the car and she's wearing a strapless cocktail dress and the skin on her arms is covered in goose pimples under a thin shawl. |
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| For thick coatings the mode of release was a broad peel front that led to detachment, whereas removal on thin coatings occurred by localized peeling and coalescence. |
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| Let stand ten minutes, then slice very thin and on the diagonal. |
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| The bearing lubricant has a huge effect on rolling resistance, which is why some speed skaters run their bearings with minimal thin oil rather than grease. |
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| It didn't kill birds directly, but it did affect their internal calcium gradients so that all eggshells were too thin and collapsed when the parents incubated them. |
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| I found rabbit bones as delicate and thin as the finest eggshell porcelain, and crunched across the beaches to pick up pebbles of orange, green and black. |
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| Two-dimensional domain and island growth in thin organic or inorganic films is of great interest in such fields as microelectronics, optics, and electrochemistry. |
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| Their only recompense is thin gruel and some bread at the end of the day. |
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| She found just enough ingredients to cook up a decidedly thin gruel. |
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| Mazzocchi suggests slicing the guanciale thin and wrapping it around prawns, then baking the bundles in the oven and serving over a cannellini bean puree. |
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| Cloisonne is an enamelware in which the surface decoration is formed by different colors of enamel that are separated by thin metal strips fixed along the design pattern. |
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| He was a tall, thin man with only the hint of an epicanthic fold. |
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| Considerable amount of thin interbedded limestones and shales was deposited in a subtropical and shallow-marine epicontinental sea during the Cincinnatian Epoch. |
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| But I'd always look away from the sparkling party and see a thin girl leaning on the doorpost, her eyes hidden under shadows and watching me with a longing gaze. |
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| She looked as divine as she always did this evening, her golden jewelry jingling and gleaming in the ethereal light, and her soft, thin white gown billowing about her. |
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| In contrast, the lungs explanted at pulmonary transplantation from the other 6 patients contained prominent cysts with thin walls and a honeycomb-like arrangement. |
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| With scarcely any natural life save for a multitude of rock formations and thin brush, the flat, dusty wasteland was more of an eyesore than an eyeful. |
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| The commonest type he found to be the thin macrocyte which has the same volume as a normal erythrocyte but is flattened so that an increase in diameter is accompanied by a decrease in thickness. |
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| Chile, which is stretched thin along South America's Pacific coast, is an elongated state, and Angola, in western Africa is more or less a rectangular state. |
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| It was encountered that the initial state of hydraulic fill is compactable to marginally compactable and there are some thin layers of silt and clay. |
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| Stale and fausty corn, being spread thin and ventilated, as herein described, will be rendered much sweeter, and more fit for the sustenance of man, and the purposes of vegetation. |
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| Many had brought along pictures of Nesmith as a Monkee: thin face with mod muttonchops and a proto-hipster beanie. |
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| The there was that last effort to call out for you, as your son crossed the thin boundary of life and death. |
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| But its delights were wearing thin 25 minutes later, when the host came out to say that the lingerers were still lingering. |
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