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Thinly   /θˈɪnli/   Listen
Thinly

adverb
1.
Without force or sincere effort.
2.
Without viscosity.  Synonym: thin.
3.
In a small quantity or extent.  Synonym: lightly.  "Apply paint lightly"
4.
In a widely distributed manner.





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"Thinly" Quotes from Famous Books



... the old pace. He snatches up his watch from the bureau with a trembling hand and counts—the beat is 130 a minute. Again it stops; again it begins; but now little by little growing faster and threadier until it runs so swiftly yet so thinly as to feel under his finger like some continuous strand of gossamer drawn through the artery. His feet and hands grow deadly cold. He seems to feel his blood trickling feebly back to his heart from every portion of his body. He catches a hurried look at the glass—he ...
— The Opium Habit • Horace B. Day
... Thunder-Birds had won. The Water-Demon with one favorite son Fled from the carnage and escaped our wrath. The vapors, thinly curling from the shore, Faint musky odors to our nostrils bore. The air was stilled, the silence of the dead; The sun, just starting on his downward path, A rosy mantle o'er the prairie shed, Save where, like vultures, ominous and still, We clustered close, on ...
— Indian Legends of Minnesota • Various
... high walls and the great buildings, there the monks were working, there the real conventual life was going on; but outside the cloister, though yet within the precincts, it is difficult for us now to realize what a vast hive of industry a great monastery in some of the lonely and thinly-populated parts of England was. Everything that was eaten or drunk or worn, almost everything that was made or used in a monastery, was produced upon the spot. The grain grew on their own land; the corn was ground in their own mill; their clothes were made from the ...
— The Coming of the Friars • Augustus Jessopp
... dress too thinly. If I wear the white I cannot wear long sleeves. So I have promised to keep to this dark silk, though I do not like it ...
— Hester's Counterpart - A Story of Boarding School Life • Jean K. Baird
... reminded the beholder of Nature's ruin than her grandeur, rose, drear and desolate, above the surrounding waters; no trees shaded their riven sides, but the water-loving mangrove clothed the base of this sterile island, and a coarse, wiry grass was thinly spread ...
— Discoveries in Australia, Volume 1. • J Lort Stokes


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