Especially tall soldiers from either side stood eyeball to eyeball — a thin strip of concrete between them serving to delineate the division of their country.

A thin strip of hair seemed to have disappeared.

With nowhere else to go, the migrants spill over into the thin strip of grass between the sea and the coastal road.

Damage and destruction caused by the depression was confined to a thin strip where the tropical depression had passed.

Cut the meat (and layers of fat) in thick strips and then into small cubes or short, thin strips.