How to Use wafer-thin in a Sentence

wafer-thin

adjective
  • The first two were Tilly wins, but wafer-thin margins.
    — Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 22 Feb. 2026
  • Chief among them is the ciccio pie, a wafer-thin, crispy tomato pie.
    — Carolyn Burt, Oc Register, 1 June 2026
  • One dress was a cocktail of red and rose georgette overlaid with wafer-thin panels of tulle and topped with a ribbon of beaded embroidery.
    — Violet Goldstone, Footwear News, 20 Feb. 2026
  • All the lore about cults and fog worlds is a tangled web of nonsense, the characters are wafer-thin, and the whole thing is really way too long for how little plot is in it.
    — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 23 Jan. 2026
  • Kogod’s defining feature is its roof, a wavelike structure that seems to flutter like a curtain of glass over the tree boxes and a wafer-thin reflecting pool created by Kathryn Gustafson.
    — Paige Williams, New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2025
  • The wafer-thin coating of clay remained long after the underlying tissues decayed completely, retaining their detailed morphology and forming a perfect clay mask.
    — Amanda Schupak, CNN Money, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Unfortunately, these strengths are working in service of a story too flimsy to support them, an unsatisfying combination of threadbare tropes, predictable twists and a wafer-thin character study.
    — Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 30 Aug. 2025
  • And as a corollary to the latter, anything that governments provide in the form of spending or easier credit comes via a substitution of wafer-thin government knowledge for the immense knowledge that is the marketplace itself.
    — John Tamny, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Messi’s complaints were wafer-thin after a 3-0 licking by LAFC, but that didn’t stop him from venting hard in this video captured by a Mexican journalist after the final whistle.
    — Phil Hay, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2026
  • While her host’s face appeared lit by sunlight passing through the wafer-thin, upturned brim of her Philip Treacy hat, Melania’s was downturned and opaque, its edges producing an angular silhouette that only added to the severe effect of her military-style skirt suit.
    — Oscar Holland, CNN Money, 18 Sep. 2025
  • The outcome of the special election could have key implications for control of the House of Representatives, where Republicans hold a wafer-thin majority, currently 219-213.
    — Daniel Orton, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Nov. 2025
  • McCown, who played as a wafer-thin true freshman at CU in ’22, threw for 30 touchdowns at UTSA this past fall — including three in a 57-20 win over Florida International in the First Responder Bowl.
    — Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 4 Jan. 2026

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