In "Rodeo -- New York City" Robert Frank pictures a thin cowboy bending his head to light his cigarette.

VOA: special.2009.03.23

A stencil is a thin sheet of metal or plastic out of which a design has been cut.

VOA: special.2009.09.02

They said a thin valley in the Atlantic Ocean was a place where the ocean floor splits.

VOA: special.2010.01.12

"But you stupid idiot!" shouted Mister Morehouse, madly shaking a thin book beneath the agent's nose.

VOA: special.2010.09.18

She was a thin and energetic woman with a huge smile and great spirit.

VOA: special.2009.08.23

Drop several seeds over the surface of the pot and cover with a thin layer of vermiculite, a substance that can hold air, water and nutrients.

VOA: special.2009.04.21

A thin layer of water runs over this surface.

VOA: special.2009.05.06

Keesh picked up a thin piece of whalebone.

VOA: special.2011.03.12

She had a thin and athletic body.

VOA: special.2009.09.20

So a tiny bit of the outside is melted and is left with this really thin glass on the outside."

VOA: special.2010.07.28

Knitting is a way of creating clothing by looping together long thin pieces of material such as cotton or wool.

VOA: special.2009.04.08

Yet she told VOA's Faiza Elmasry it was surprising how many students can graduate with, in her words,a "thin education."

VOA: special.2009.10.22

It made the ice thin. If he stepped there, he might break through the ice into a pool of water.

VOA: special.2010.05.01

It is very thin now. Find a place where the ice has melted, then tie some logs together.

VOA: special.2010.06.26

When people think of carrots, they usually picture in their mind a vegetable that is long,thin and orange.

VOA: special.2009.02.24

It includes long,thin,red and white rocks that reach high into the air like fingers on a hand.

VOA: special.2009.04.15

The female mosquito uses its thin sucking tube to break the skin, find blood and inject the victim with a substance that keeps blood flowing.

VOA: special.2009.05.26

It was a place where the line between reality and unreality is extremely thin.

VOA: special.2010.10.31

he added. "It's a tall,strange bird with soft white feathers and long thin legs.

VOA: special.2010.04.03

At about nineteen-thousand meters, the air is so thin and the amount of oxygen so small that a person needs a lot of special equipment to survive.

VOA: special.2011.04.06

And then,when my head was well in the room, I undid the lantern just so much that a single thin ray of light fell upon the vulture eye.

VOA: special.2009.05.16