Example sentences for: thinly

How can you use “thinly” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • While Podhoretz may be correct in his opinion of Al Sharpton, his comments regarding Sharpton and Jesse Jackson possess a thinly disguised undertone of racism: As he castigates "white liberals" for assuming that "Negroes" could do no wrong, his discussion of Sharpton's actions seem to say, "Well, what can you expect?

  • The soft money is no longer principally funneled through national political parties; many candidates today have established political action committees which are thinly veiled conduits for their own interests.

  • Nor does the failure of Surowiecki's column to note its own thinly veiled role in the culture war surrounding Java that it describes.

  • In Corpus Christi , the disciple characters are thinly sketched versions of familiar clichés: the taciturn hairdresser, the buff male hustler, the yuppie lawyer.

  • The benefits of free trade, though substantial, are thinly spread, so it isn't in the interest of any individual to spend a lot of money promoting that cause.


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