thinly

[US]/'θinli/
[UK]/ˈ θɪnlɪ/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

adv. sparsely; thinly; slimly; finely.

Phrases & Collocations

cut thinly

sliced thinly

spread thinly

rolled thinly

shaved thinly

coat thinly

layered thinly

Example Sentences

This area is thinly populated.

a thinly veiled criticism

thinly bedded carbonate mudstones.

spread each slice thinly with mayonnaise.

a thinly veiled threat.

a thinly scattered population

She spread the toast thinly with raspberry jam.

Expertise in this field is very thinly spread across the country.

thinly disguised party political propaganda.

ocrea fugacious, brown, thinly membranous.

She made a lot of thinly veiled accusations.

she felt she was struggling against thinly disguised misogyny.

abaxial surface with mammillate epidermis, thinly persistently fawn-farinose;

In her speech she made several thinly disguised attacks on the president.

Milk white smoke was stinking thinly and smokily as rolling up in puffs from the nattierblue flames.

Leaves in a rosette, grasslike, linear, occasionally thinly filiform, often thin and transparent, fenestrate, base sheathing.

Therefore are feasts so solemn and so rare,Since, seldom coming, in the long year set,Like stones of worth they thinly placed are,Or captain jewels in the carcanet.

and about his shelves a beggarly account of empty boxes, green earthen pots, bladders and musty seeds, remnants of packthread and old cakes of roses, were thinly scatter'd, to make up a show.

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