Example sentences of "[adv] thick as a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gold bracelets , each as thick as a child 's wrist , if their hair was blonde ; amber , ebony , ivory , white gold , amethysts … |
| 2 | There are places roped with cablecoil guts as thick as a man , as fine as a whisker ; a rumbling kingdom . |
| 3 | It grows to a metre and a half in length and as thick as a man 's arm . |
| 4 | I throw the rind , as thick as a pencil , in the direction of the vervet monkeys , but they show no understanding of my offer . |
| 5 | It looks like something a navvy might use to dig roads up — thin , hollow metal tube , about as thick as a size 10 knitting needle , with a gimlet-like plunger . |
| 6 | The rush-hour traffic in the city centre had been as thick as a plate of home-made porridge ! |
| 7 | Her information came from a huge list — as thick as a book — published free by the Department of the Environment , which gave details of old and interesting properties ( including lighthouses , watch towers and windmills ) throughout England . |
| 8 | Here , with his little moustache , each hair as thick as a fishing line , and his noble , gelid face , he counts for something . |
| 9 | According to his prophecies , the king of the twelfth generation after John will be the Mouldwarp , a hairy man whose skin will be as thick as a goat 's . |
| 10 | His penis was as thick as a chair leg and measured something in the region of seven inches in a flaccid state . |
| 11 | No matter that their French or German accents were as thick as a slice of sushi . |