1.   Very thin rods of glass are enclosed in a tube.

2.   Your hairdresser takes sections of your hair - some are wound around thin rods and thick rods while others are left untreated.

3.   But they said they beat children, usually with thin rods, in the spirit of love.

4.   Church members did not dispute that they were using corporal punishment, but said they disciplined their children, usually with thin rods, in the spirit of love.

5.   It now flies only when tethered to a thin rod.

6.   Poking the soil of this unnammed tract of windswept steppe with a thin metal rod, Alexei Shmakov found the hollowed-out subterranean space he was looking for.

7.   Thin rods of lamb sausage, bits of lamb bacon, lamb confit and velvety soft lamb shank lay in a fragrant pool of lamb stock and white beans.

8.   At one point, work was stopped for half an hour after a large chunk of the ceiling dropped, dangling from a few thin rods.