thin air

Examples (10)

• It's difficult carrying such heavy loads in the thin air of the mountains.
• Climbers often need supplemental oxygen to cope with the thin air on Everest.
• At 10,000 feet, you can really start to feel the effects of the thin air.
• Athletes train at high altitudes to get used to performing in thin air.
• The plane's engines are designed to operate efficiently even in the thin air of the upper atmosphere.
• Llamas are well-adapted to the thin air of the Andes.
• We gasped for breath in the cold, thin air at the summit.
• The magician made the rabbit vanish into thin air.
• My keys seem to have disappeared into thin air; I can't find them anywhere.
• He promised to help, but when the time came, he vanished into thin air.