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    thinly


    1. the table, but instead he managed to swallow it manfully and smile thinly


    2. augment man’s thinly veiled hold on the outer edges of the galaxy


    3. "The raft that he's on will be getting to a very thinly settled part of the river in about one native week," he began


    4. That was what they were called, genetically mass-produced men and women born of test tubes to augment man’s thinly veiled hold on the outer edges of the galaxy


    5. Eventually, over a bowl of thinly disguised gruel, he said, “Look, love, this won’t do


    6. The newly homeless couple were manhandled out of the car without a further word being said by anyone and left standing on the loose stones and thinly grassed topsoil at the top of the cliff where they had once lived a spare and shabby life in a caravan


    7. The old girl eventually retired, wobbling slightly as she went, and Annie returned to her own thinly proportioned bed on a promise to call round the next morning for coffee


    8. Eventually, over a bowl of thinly disguised gruel, he said,


    9. standing on the loose stones and thinly grassed topsoil at the top of


    10. returned to her own thinly proportioned bed on a promise to call

    11. Within the outback, the Pilbara is a large, dry, thinly populated region in the north of Western Australia


    12. A quantity of mineral, sufficient to defray the expense of working, could be brought from the mine by the ordinary, or even less than the ordinary quantity of labour: but in an inland country, thinly inhabited, and without either good roads or water-carriage, this quantity could not be sold


    13. But in countries ill cultivated, and therefore but thinly inhabited, the poultry, which are thus raised without expense, are often fully sufficient to supply the whole demand


    14. In countries ill cultivated, and therefore but thinly inhabited, the price of the wool and the hide bears always a much greater proportion to that of the whole beast, than in countries where, improvement and population being further advanced, there is more demand for butcher's meat


    15. He had been able to see straight through the cheap and thinly spun vestments of all who came before DRAFT


    16. He dug his heel into my foot with thinly disguised vindictiveness


    17. The colony of a civilized nation which takes possession either of a waste country, or of one so thinly inhabited that the natives easily give place to the new settlers, advances more rapidly to wealth and greatness than any other human society


    18. She stood there, a thinly disguised look of trepidation


    19. smiled thinly and put him in his place


    20. In a poor country, the consumption of the principal commodities subject to the duties of customs and excise, is very small; and in a thinly inhabited country, the opportunities of smuggling are very great

    21. In Ireland, the inferior ranks of people are still poorer than in Scotland, and many parts of the country are almost as thinly inhabited


    22. The opportunities of smuggling, indeed, would be much greater ; America, in proportion to the extent of the country, being much more thinly inhabited than either Scotland or Ireland


    23. In consequence of those two apparently very simple and easy alterations, the duties of customs and excise might probably produce a revenue as great, in proportion to the consumption of the most thinly inhabited province, as they do at present, in proportion to that of the most populous


    24. His face was thin and cadaverously gaunt, as lit by some candles on the Captain’s desk, Fysto said not a word, but smiled thinly at the port agent and pulled out a chair for him to sit


    25. Thinly spread into prepared baking pan


    26. Slice thinly with a knife dipped in hot water to serve


    27. is not the perfect solution, (a relatively handful of densely populated states strategically allied could conceivably influence the course of an election), abolishing it would further erode the (already) marginalized impact of voters residing in thinly populated areas


    28. Then, a thinly veiled reference to his shuffling of data to keep hidden the propriety of certain loans won his complete, undivided attention and an overwhelming degree of cooperation which sufficed to wipe clean the trail of the checks and ignore any interest on the loan


    29. He was smiling thinly when he told her:


    30. With a gaze slightly reminiscent of the mythic gorgon she simply answered with another thinly veiled insult: “Vultures you mean? Nobody does

    31. Ethan smiled thinly before he crossed his arms and said:


    32. Ethan smiled thinly and shook his head


    33. His hand traced a road to the east and then he placed another, different sort of marker pin there before smiling thinly to himself


    34. She smiled thinly before she replied:


    35. He smiled thinly and tapped away the ash from his cigarette over the open window


    36. Ethan nodded and smiled thinly, thinking it strange Nicole had already left without waking him up


    37. Adu smiled thinly, nodded and got up


    38. Now she had the wrap that only thinly covered her womanhood, and her uncovered breasts pumped up and down as she sought to catch up with her exertion, but certainly not the quietness of the state she had been in when he had first seen her, and he was filled anew with a confused sort of gladness


    39. Adu smiled thinly before calmly retorting:


    40. Giles smiled thinly before saying:

    41. The priest smiled thinly and crossed his palms as if in prayer:


    42. Father Likembe smiled thinly and said, “Sometimes, I’m not really sure which one of us works for the other


    43. “You?” asked Ethan with a slight shake of his head, grinning thinly


    44. balding thinly and moved his hands a lot while they conversed


    45. delicatessen man would thinly slice a ham


    46. Thinly veiled commands, supply lists, maps


    47. ~s a lo pobre thinly slice potatoes stir-fried with eggs


    48. ” He said thinly, as if speaking to a


    49. I could really see no difference between him and them, and their languages were mutually comprehensible, but they seemed to have a thinly veiled contempt for Klah, and I was suspect since I was in his company


    50. It consisted of using racks high about the hearth, placing thinly sliced pieces of meat on them and building up a large smoky fire with evergreen branches














































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    Synonyms for "thinly"

    thinly lightly thin

    "thinly" definitions

    without force or sincere effort


    without viscosity


    in a small quantity or extent


    in a widely distributed manner