Examples of use of a thin piece
1. Less than 2m away from where Jamila is working, her baby has fallen asleep on a thin piece of straw.
2. On Thursday, a dermatologist‘s nurse was examining him for a skin condition when Reese pulled out a thin piece of metal with a sharpened tip about 4 to 5 inches long and stabbed the man, sheriff‘s office spokesman Bill Cunningham said.
3. And at the International AIDS Conference that year in Florence, he told delegates, "We are being told that only a thin piece of rubber stands between our people and the death of the continent, but condoms cannot be the main means of stemming the tide of AIDS." So rare were condoms in those years that Westerners working in Uganda had trouble getting them for their own programs.