Example sentences for: thinly

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

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

  • The joke of The Mikado is that its Japanese lords are thinly disguised English bureaucrats; the joke of Topsy-Turvy is that the opera's English performers seem culturally incapable of playing Japanese.

  • ) and an irritated Variety , whose Derek Kelly lashes out at everything he can: "The butter is spread pretty thinly over the bread.

  • That the original lyrics of "Tutti Frutti" were not just off-color but full of, as Miller puts it, "thinly veiled anal eroticism"?

  • First, they are remarkably thinly sourced, to 1) a disgruntled former consultant who was disbarred for bribery; 2) a detective who had his license revoked by the State of Arkansas; 3) Gennifer Flowers' ex-roommate; and 4) Park Police.


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