Wondering how to use Thickly in a sentence? Below are 10+ example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as thinly or thick.
Thickly meaning
In a thick manner.
Using Thickly
- The main meaning on this page is: In a thick manner.
- Useful related words include: thinly, thick, densely.
- In the example corpus, thickly often appears in combinations such as: thickly populated, is thickly, and thickly.
Context around Thickly
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 9 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Thickly
- In this selection, "thickly" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 22.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, hats, schiaparelli, planted, populated, textured and cut stand out and add context to how "thickly" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include beds planted thickly with vegetables and brown hats thickly sliced are. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "thickly" sits close to words such as aayog, aghast and agitate, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with thickly
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Actually it means ‘hills of the yew trees’ when it was thickly wooded. (13 words)
The skin was covered quite thickly and instead of being crispy it felt more flaky. (15 words)
He’s clearly trained intensely, as the pictures of his thickly muscled body would attest. (15 words)
From the point of landing, his unit’s advance had to be made across a bridge in Pourville which was swept by very heavy machine-gun, mortar and artillery fire: the first parties were mostly destroyed and the bridge thickly covered by their bodies. (44 words)
She would cut a slice and slather it thickly with butter that would then melt into the still warm bread to sustain me for the rest of the walk home, another 1.5 kilometres up the mountain through bear-infested forest. (41 words)
Beavers, here acting as curator, made her name with her bold, ironic and thickly textured paintings inspired by the fetishization of the body and its extensions that social media makes continuous. (31 words)
Example sentences (20)
The brisket at Eric’s is thickly cut, as thickly as any other I’ve had in the Valley.
And the crew can do all of this without leaving the protection of its thickly armored vehicle.
She would cut a slice and slather it thickly with butter that would then melt into the still warm bread to sustain me for the rest of the walk home, another 1.5 kilometres up the mountain through bear-infested forest.
Those king oysters, fat creamy stems and brown hats, thickly sliced, are sensational fried, tossed till golden and fragrant, tumbled onto sourdough toast.
Actually it means ‘hills of the yew trees’ when it was thickly wooded.
A woman walks into a party 'with the glitter of a matador, encased in a vintage, shocking pink-and-black satin Schiaparelli, thickly encrusted with gold braid'.
Beavers, here acting as curator, made her name with her bold, ironic and thickly textured paintings inspired by the fetishization of the body and its extensions that social media makes continuous.
Mist covers the tea estates over a thickly populated area in Udhagamandalam in Nilgiris district, India, Thursday, Sept. 26, 2024.
The rest of the yard is filled with raised beds planted thickly with vegetables, herbs and flowers, accessible by narrow walking paths.
The skin was covered quite thickly and instead of being crispy it felt more flaky.
The thickly populated north Indian States getting more seats in Parliament will result in policies being implemented in their favour and based on their ideologies.
With the roof closed, smoke from the pre-match pyrotechnics hung thickly in the air as the hosts set about Italy.
The road constructed with lined drains and five river crossings, including culverts and bridges, now links the ever-busy and thickly populated Abakpa Nike with Emene satellite town.
At the front of the hall hang Graham’s earlier works: somewhat gritty, thickly textured and often monochromatic.
From the point of landing, his unit’s advance had to be made across a bridge in Pourville which was swept by very heavy machine-gun, mortar and artillery fire: the first parties were mostly destroyed and the bridge thickly covered by their bodies.
He’s clearly trained intensely, as the pictures of his thickly muscled body would attest.
It’s cooked until toasty on the outside, then dunked into a thickly spiced sauce— heaven.
She rocked a thickly-lined black cat-eye on her eyelid, her lashes fanning out perfectly.
The sides were thickly bordered by a heavy but low growth of birch trees, pepper-bush, wild honeysuckle and wild apple trees.
Mix a little butter with flaky salt and spread on toast as thickly as you dare.
Common combinations with thickly
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- thickly populated 6×
- is thickly 4×
- and thickly 4×
- thickly covered 4×
- as thickly 3×
- thickly as 2×
- thickly with 2×
- thickly wooded 2×
- thickly textured 2×
- the thickly 2×