Below you will find example sentences with "thin air". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.

Thin Air in a sentence

Corpus data

  • Displayed example sentences: 20
  • Discovered as a combination around: thin
  • Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 7
  • Phrase length: 2 words
  • Average sentence length: 19.6 words

Words in this phrase

thin air

Meanings of words in this phrase

  • thin can mean: Having little thickness or extent from one surface to its opposite. Frequent word
  • air can mean: The substance constituting Earth's atmosphere: a gaseous mixture of nitrogen, oxygen, and various trace gases. Common word

Sentence profile

  • Phrase position: 0 start, 10 middle, 10 end
  • Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations

Usage patterns

These patterns show short text windows around the phrase in the example sentences:

out of thin air 4× materialise from thin air due their 1× media s thin air anti conservative 1× miracles from thin air improving the 1× out of thin air but educators 1× out of thin air just to 1× out of thin air may seem 1× out of thin air send them 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

and our scientists 1× but once the 1× conjuration wizards are 1× finally a day 1× fruit flies seem 1× he didn t 1×

Common sentence endings:

of thin air 4× into thin air 2× can teach it 1× council s website 1× improving the world 1× is case unsolved 1×

Context words

These words often appear near this phrase in the example sentences:

keep 2× new 2× data 2× doesn 2× four 2× life 2× watching 2× seem 2× media 2× vanish 2× appear 2× efforts 1×

Related phrases

air force air pollution air ambulance air quality air base air canada air defence air strikes naval air clean air

Phrases around this combination

Just before it in the phrase index:

thick enough thestreet upgraded therapy dogs theory main theme song theme parks

Just after it in the phrase index:

thin client thin layer things differently things happen think differently think tank

Other phrases with the same pattern

Same start:

thin layer thin client

Same ending:

naval air clean air cold air indoor air dry air royal air

Corpus analysis

  • The phrase "thin air" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 19.6 words and is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as out of thin air, materialise from thin air due their, keep, new and data stand out.
  • In the phrase index, this combination connects with air force, air pollution and air ambulance, linking the page to nearby combinations.

Example types with thin air

This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:

Short example sentences

Into the surrounding thin air. (5 words)

Performance doesn't just come out of thin air. (9 words)

But once the elections are over, those promises vanish into thin air. (12 words)

Longer example sentences

It's easy to just get rid of these characters so that the show can continue, but some shows are tempted to concoct new story lines out of thin air just to keep a popular character around. (37 words)

With the GOP presidential primary gearing up and Durham report bombshells evaporating into the liberal media’s thin air, anti-conservative media bias still rears its ugly head. (28 words)

Meanwhile, DragGAN hallucinates image data, smartly generating pixels from thin air, filling in gaps that would otherwise require plenty of Photoshop work to brush up to perfection. (27 words)

Question examples

How did girl vanish into thin air while riding bike & why is case unsolved? (14 words)

Example sentences (20)

Their efforts were to temporarily transfigure thin air into a fiber —or, more specifically, an air for tens of meters.

And our scientists keep pulling out new miracles from thin air, improving the world.

And when I turned around after crossing the street, she was gone, as if she had vanished into thin air.

Conjuration wizards are some of the most versatile casters Dungeons & Dragons 5e, and have a talent for conjuring items and creatures out of thin air.

It is structured to print dollars out of thin air, send them abroad, and buy whatever it (US Economy) needs.

Meanwhile, DragGAN hallucinates image data, smartly generating pixels from thin air, filling in gaps that would otherwise require plenty of Photoshop work to brush up to perfection.

Performance doesn't just come out of thin air.

The four leads trade heavily on their real-life friendships to catalyse winning on-screen chemistry but they can't spin gold out of thin air.

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Watching the principal suplex a deer and dealing with one's friend summoning an array of weaponry out of thin air may seem surreal to the viewers.

With the GOP presidential primary gearing up and Durham report bombshells evaporating into the liberal media’s thin air, anti-conservative media bias still rears its ugly head.

But once the elections are over, those promises vanish into thin air.

Finally, a day that’s warm enough to encourage those morels out of thin air.

Fruit flies seem to materialise from thin air due their remarkably swift life cycle.

He didn't just pull this information out of thin air; the data comes directly from the local council's website.

How did girl vanish into thin air while riding bike & why is case unsolved?

Into the surrounding thin air.

I skimmed and couldn't find it but someone better tell them that Denver has some pretty thin air too.

It's easy to just get rid of these characters so that the show can continue, but some shows are tempted to concoct new story lines out of thin air just to keep a popular character around.

Mutual understanding doesn't appear out of thin air, but educators can teach it.

Out of the starless December sky, one, two, three, then four drones suddenly started to appear out of thin air - sending of everyone watching.

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