Pencil-thin

The starving boy was pencil-thin.

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.

Any visitor to New York over the past few years will have witnessed this curious new breed of pencil-thin tower. Poking up above the Manhattan skyline like etiolated beanpoles, they seem to defy the laws of both gravity and commercial sense. They stand like naked elevator shafts awaiting their floors, raw extrusions of capital piled up until it hits the clouds.