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"Thinly" in a Sentence (15 examples)
I like to spread my toast thinly with jam.
They came from all over the world to make their homes in this new land, which was thinly populated by native Indians.
As to the fragments of morality that are irregularly and thinly scattered in those books, they make no part of this pretended thing, revealed religion.
Patriotism, often a thinly veiled form of collective self-worship, celebrates our goodness, our ideals, our mercy and bemoans the perfidiousness of those who hate us.
Slice the bread very thinly.
On a bright December morning long ago, two thinly clad children were kneeling upon the bank of a frozen canal in Holland.
Slice the cucumbers as thinly as possible.
At a public gathering eight months after an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the elected government, a sitting member of the United States Congress made thinly veiled threats, calling for bloodshed if his party did not win a majority of votes in the next election.
The ointment should only be applied thinly.
Ziri sliced the bread thinly.
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The surroundings become bleak in the extreme as the timber line is approached and trees give place to thinly scattered birches that are little more than bushes.
Brüno was a case of diminishing returns, intermittently amusing but not nearly as bracing or funny as Borat—it didn’t help that Brüno was the most thinly conceived of all his Da Ali G Show characters—and the lead-up to Baron Cohen’s new comedy, The Dictator, made it look like he’d boxed himself into a corner.
“The Budget proposes eliminating Supporting Effective Instruction (SEI) State Grants (Title II State grants), a program that provides formula funds to States to improve the quality and effectiveness of teachers, principals, and other schools leaders. SEI grants are poorly targeted and funds are spread too thinly to have a meaningful impact on student outcomes.
a thinly-veiled attack on my integrity
a thinly disguised attempt at sabotage
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