Meaning

Somewhat cylindrical and slender like a pencil; also, tall and thin..

Example Sentences

Pencil-Thin Treillage must be made of a metal that flows evenly and fully into every part of intricate molds.

She would melt the bits of paraffin and make pencil-thin candles so that she, her daughters, and daughters-in-law could kindle the Sabbath candles and welcome the Sabbath with the number of candles they were accustomed to light in the pre-Hitler days.

Pencil-thin, cigarette-wielding women swayed to the rhythm of jazz bands, and unprecedented quantities of wine were consumed.

I learned that all the stretching, pulling, and lifting in the world couldn't make me pencil thin like the teenage models I was supposed to look like.

This special foodstuff is the pod of an unusual legume. It resembles a snap bean except for one singular fact: it is pencil-thin and as much as a meter long. Often called yardlong bean in English, these green to pale-green pods are tender, stringless, succulent, and sweet.

The dancers playing the role of conquistadors wore wire fencing masks that had been painted with long pointed Spanish faces; black, pencil-thin mustaches that curled slightly at the ends; blue eyes; long, thin European noses and thin mouths.

He climbed past eroding, sandy cement and pencil-thin rusted rebar that spoke of Soviet-era cost cutting.

A good bit taller than Haig, she was pencil thin with her jet-black hair cropped short and a straight fringe spanning a wide forehead.

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Use pencil-thin when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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