Sentence examples of "fin" in French with translation "thin"

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La glace est trop fine pour porter ton poids. The ice is too thin to bear your weight.
La glace est trop fine pour y pouvoir patiner. The ice is too thin to skate on.
Qui aurait pensé qu'elle put être aussi fine et petite ? Who would have thought that she could be so thin and small?
La glace sur le lac est trop fine pour supporter ton poids. The ice on the lake is too thin to bear your weight.
Le sous-marin dut sourdre au travers d'une fine couche de glace. The submarine had to break through a thin sheet of ice to surface.
Les câbles de fibre optique sont faits de minuscules fibres de verre aussi fines que des cheveux humains. Fiber-optic cables are made up of tiny glass fibers which are as thin as human hairs.
Les Français sont vraiment un peuple bizarre : parmi ceux qui lisent cette phrase, un sur deux va vérifier si l'espace avant le double point est bien fine et insécable. The French are a really strange people: every other person who reads this sentence will check if the space before the colon is really thin and non-breaking.
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