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Example sentences for "thinly"

Lexicographically close words:
thinkings; thinkis; thinks; thinkses; thinkst; thinne; thinned; thinner; thinness; thinnest
  1. Pare and thinly slice cucumber and onion sprinkle with a teaspoon of salt and let stand for a few minutes.

  2. When soothed a while by milder airs, Thee Winter in the garland wears That thinly shades his few grey hairs; Spring cannot shun thee; 1807.

  3. Next morning the earth was thinly covered with snow, enough to make the road soft and prevent its being slippery.

  4. It has upon it, thinly engraved within a slightly sunk centre with a scalloped edge, the figure of Christ upon the cross, between the Virgin and St John.

  5. After getting away from the forest covered lowlands of the lake shore, they emerge into a rolling country dotted with ant hills and thinly sprinkled with tamarisks and thorny acacias.

  6. The first section, which includes the really maritime and the mountainous, is, in its lower part next to the sea, but thinly populated, owing to the slave trade and the effect of internal wars.

  7. The trees, growing more thinly as we approached the skirt of the wood, let in the light, and between their trunks I caught a glimpse of the sea.

  8. His most important occupation was to bring the people down from the mountains and thinly settled districts, drawing them by cords of love and gentleness.

  9. The wasteful profusion of the natives of a thinly peopled country would lead to the destruction of the forests with little heed to aught but the supply of their own immediate wants.

  10. Amid the evidences of a thinly scattered population, examples of it are still of very frequent occurrence, after all the ravages of the spade and the plough.

  11. As the work of a thinly scattered population, it is probable that examples of it were never very numerous, and of these we may perhaps assume that the greater number have been gradually obliterated by structures of more recent date.

  12. There was no carpet or cushions in the tent, and only a little straw, as if accidentally, thrown thinly about it.

  13. Are you not afraid, so thinly attended, to venture upon these long and dangerous voyages?

  14. They could hear a horse champing in the pasture; the wail of an Italian infant came to them thinly across the green; behind them sounded mellow the tin horn of the shad vendor.

  15. A voice called thinly from the swales, and cows gathered indistinctly about a gate.

  16. A violet blur of smoke overhung the chimney of the Ellerton Waterworks, printed thinly on the sky.

  17. The covert insolence in his voice was thinly veiled by a respectful intonation.

  18. The round face before him broke into a smile, at the same time becoming thinly veiled by the smoke of a light cigar.

  19. The method of curing is thus described:-- "When the leaves are brought in to the curers they are thinly spread on shallow trays to dry off all moisture by two or three hours' exposure.

  20. When this firing is finished, the leaves are opened out and are again thinly spread on the sieve in the basket for a few minutes, which finishes the drying and rolling for most of the heap, and makes the leaves a uniform black.

  21. Villages are thinly scattered, and poor and mean-looking.

  22. Their government was not much better; and their military resources could only be drawn from vast, thinly peopled, unproductive steppes.

  23. The town of Kilgarran is diminished into one street, thinly inhabited by labouring farmers and fishermen.

  24. The country appeared but thinly wooded, and without any hill or watercourse.

  25. Granite appears here for the first time on this road; and we accordingly find those bold undulations and that thinly wooded surface which usually distinguish the formation in Australia.

  26. The banks of the Peel, thus far, are composed chiefly of extensive flats of good land, thinly wooded, and occasionally flooded by the river.

  27. The country when seen from an eminence appeared to be very generally wooded, but the lower parts were perfectly clear, or thinly strewed with bushes, and slender trees, chiefly varieties of acacia.

  28. We pursued a westerly direction for five miles over ground thinly wooded, with patches of open plain.

  29. The plateau consists of about 160 acres of rich loam, and was thinly wooded before it was entirely cleared by us in making our place of defence.

  30. Spacing: Thinly seed a row into any vacant niche.

  31. Their houses are as often perched on steep, thinly soiled hills or gooey, difficult clay as on a tiny fragment of what was once prime farmland.

  32. Archie did not find the Count so bad, although he growled sometimes at his host's thinly veiled contempt for all Americans.

  33. The cottages of the peasantry were very mean, without any appearance of comfort, and thinly scattered; seldom standing alone, but generally collected into small villages.

  34. Reheat over hot water with one hard boiled egg thinly sliced in two tablespoons heavy cream.

  35. Cook one-half large onion, thinly sliced, in one tablespoon butter eight minutes.

  36. The region where it occurs is thinly settled, and demand for lumber is small, but stockmen build corrals and fences to enclose sheep and cattle, and the Arizona white oak supplies some of the rough poles and posts for that purpose.

  37. It cannot even be sold for fuel, because the country within reach of it is thinly settled, and wood is plentiful on every side.

  38. It was known that the hearing of evidence was at all times thinly attended.

  39. The first public steps taken after my arrival in Paris were at a committee of the Friends of the Negros, which was but thinly attended.

  40. A tract of land so thinly inhabited, must have much wild- fowl; and I scarcely remember to have seen a dinner without them.

  41. Elgin seems a place of little trade, and thinly inhabited.

  42. It has been a question often agitated without solution, why those northern regions are now so thinly peopled, which formerly overwhelmed with their armies the Roman empire.

  43. Here and there they were closely packed in dense masses, while in the intervals between, the bucks were thinly interspersed; and now and then were wide breaks, like an army marching in column.

  44. The oryx is a desert-dwelling antelope, can live without water, and grows fat even on the plants that thinly vegetate over the barren soil.

  45. Its headquarters are in the land of the Namaquas, though it is thinly scattered all around the borders of the Great Kalihari Desert.

  46. As already stated, it was close in to the edge of the timber, where a number of small olean trees stood thinly over the ground.

  47. She was thinly clad, and she did not possess a single article upon which she could have obtained the smallest advance.


  48. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "thinly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.