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

VOA: special.2009.03.23

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

After the water has been removed, the flat, thin form remaining is permitted to dry.

VOA: special.2009.01.26

The paint is thin. Sometimes you can see through the paint to the paper underneath.

VOA: special.2010.07.25

They are tall and thin, and seem to grow from the canyon floor.

VOA: special.2009.04.15

The long,thin fibers are strong, and can work well to reduce temperature changes.

VOA: special.2009.11.17

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

The coral's long,thin branches offered the damselfish great places to hide and feed.

VOA: special.2010.08.10

He rushed to a small table and grabbed a long,thin knife.

VOA: special.2009.07.18

Thin Thin Aung says Aung San Suu Kyi's participation in the election is necessary to ensure national reconciliation.

VOA: standard.2009.05.15

"Our margins are really thin, in terms of our bottom line, and any additional costs have to be absorbed by the farmer because we can't pass on those costs to consumers directly,"

VOA: standard.2009.12.12

"The timeline that we've talked about is actually,in a sense that, if I were to use the surge in Iraq, look where we are right now, sort of apply the same kind of timeline to Afghanistan, as best we can tell, and we think that's reasonable, in terms of having the impact, and then being able to thin our forces out and bring them back".

VOA: standard.2009.11.04