Our cavalry is thinly stretched along the length of the Canadian border.

It had one of New York's largest and most thinly stretched police precincts, the 34th.

The Germans were too thinly stretched to do more than man a series of strongpoints.

When we get there, with our thinly stretched forces, the enemy is waiting.

The woman on the bed was a skeleton covered with thinly stretched, ash-gray skin.

Some consumers - those with thinly stretched finances - may find themselves unable to make credit payments.

Knowing he'd been used in such a ploy didn't improve Kirk's already thinly stretched tolerance.

They would be too thinly stretched and we could outflank them.

And even then, access to Washington's thinly stretched resources is by no means guaranteed.

And starting up the huge reactor would introduce new problems for Lilco's thinly stretched power network.