Wondering how to use Thinly in a sentence? Below are 10+ example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as thickly or thin.
Thinly meaning
- In a thin, loose, or scattered manner; scantily; not thickly.
- Barely; hardly; with little attempt to conceal.
Using Thinly
- The main meaning on this page is: In a thin, loose, or scattered manner; scantily; not thickly. | Barely; hardly; with little attempt to conceal.
- Useful related words include: thickly, thin, lightly.
- In the example corpus, thinly often appears in combinations such as: thinly veiled, thinly sliced, thinly disguised.
Context around Thinly
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 10 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Thinly
- In this selection, "thinly" 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, took, ultra, veiled, sliced and traded stand out and add context to how "thinly" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 1kg of thinly sliced carrot and a very thinly traded stock. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "thinly" sits close to words such as alberto, athleticism and bangalore, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with thinly
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Shawarma is thinly sliced meat. (5 words)
Cut the onions and potatoes in half and then thinly slice. (11 words)
He issued a thinly veiled warning that the coalition would respond. (11 words)
Set a timer for 12 minutes, scraping the spoon across the bottom of the pan so that it can’t stick, and cook until the timer goes off, or the mixture is hot and thinly coats the spoon (or reaches 75C). (41 words)
Former President Donald Trump launched a new attack on Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis after the governor took a thinly veiled shot at the former president for allegedly paying off an adult film star to keep quiet about an alleged affair. (40 words)
In a thinly veiled dig, acting President Hamilton Mourao, who was Bolsonaro’s vice president, criticized his former boss for failing to lead the country and allowing anti-democratic sentiment to thrive after his October defeat at the polls. (39 words)
Example sentences (20)
Actually, his thinly veiled reason for plunging the US into the cauldron of the Great War was none of the above.
But the other thing is, we're a very thinly traded stock.
Cut the onions and potatoes in half and then thinly slice.
During that hearing, both Speirs and Robertson took thinly-veiled shots at the other agency.
Former President Donald Trump launched a new attack on Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis after the governor took a thinly veiled shot at the former president for allegedly paying off an adult film star to keep quiet about an alleged affair.
He issued a thinly veiled warning that the coalition would respond.
In a recent statement, Zilliacus also fired a thinly-veiled dig at the Qatari proposal by referencing clubs as the 'personal playground of sheikhs and oligarchs'.
In a thinly veiled attack, co-leader Mr Harvie added that for the Greens a 'sincere commitment to progressive values cannot be an optional extra in a choice of First Minister', but a 'necessity'.
In a thinly veiled dig, acting President Hamilton Mourao, who was Bolsonaro’s vice president, criticized his former boss for failing to lead the country and allowing anti-democratic sentiment to thrive after his October defeat at the polls.
In the final segment of this week’s show, we listen back to AWS CEO Adam Selipsky’s thinly veiled jabs at Microsoft and OpenAI during his re:Invent keynote this week.
Others only thinly veil their extremism in traditional Orthodox Russian imperialism, exemplified by the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) leadership and former paramilitary commander Igor Strelkov aka Girkin.
Place 1kg of thinly sliced carrot, fennel and cabbage in a large bowl.
Set a timer for 12 minutes, scraping the spoon across the bottom of the pan so that it can’t stick, and cook until the timer goes off, or the mixture is hot and thinly coats the spoon (or reaches 75C).
Shawarma is thinly sliced meat.
She wore a no-makeup look, bared her skin paired with thinly lined kohl eyes and n*de lips with a tinge of gloss over them.
Some may deduce it to be a not-so thinly-veiled shot at the alleged mother of one of his child.
SRM is a tiny firm that is thinly capitalized and management has excessive valuation assumptions.
Strelkov has been criticizing Putin for a while and Prigozhin recently joined in. The remarks about a "grandpa" are not so thinly veiled.
That’s partly a product of the ignorance the poll demonstrates about the way anti-Zionism is merely a thinly disguised version of antisemitism.
Their sandwiches are deliciously buttered and ultra-thinly-pressed on fresh Cuban bread.
Common combinations with thinly
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- thinly veiled 51×
- thinly sliced 23×
- thinly disguised 14×
- the thinly 11×
- is thinly 10×
- as thinly 10×
- thinly populated 10×
- very thinly 9×
- thinly traded 9×
- and thinly 9×