scantily

Example Sentences

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Although crop substitution has had some success in Colombia, experts say, it is an especially difficult transition for farmers in far-flung, scantily populated areas like Guaviare.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 23, 2022

There were discussions last summer during the anti-racism protests about how police officers were very scantily masking.

From Slate • May 6, 2021

Last summer the mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, banned advertisements showing scantily clad women from the city’s public transportation system, saying they promoted unhealthy or unrealistic body images.

From New York Times • Jan. 25, 2017

Others counter that Lohfink – a German media personality known for her scantily clad photos – is being unfairly treated specifically because of her free-spirited public persona.

From Washington Post • Jun. 22, 2016

From the Anfalas, the Langstrand far away, a long line of men of many sorts, hunters and herdsmen and men of little villages, scantily equipped save for the household of Golasgil their lord.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien