The country was thinly populated, and the houses we saw were poor and mean.

The sky was dull and leaden, and cindery flakes of snow were thinly falling.

Divide the pastry into two portions, and roll them out as thinly as possible.

The impudence and thinly veiled hostility in the man's tone were unmistakable.

Thus the Pope's summons, with a menace that was all too thinly veiled.

His forehead, however, was high and thinly covered with sandy hair.

This would bring them to the level of the water, now thinly covered with ice.

She was but thinly wrapped, and shivered so that I put my coat around her.

One or two deserted or thinly populated villages were passed.

And yet the crowd was comparatively a small one, the colony then being so thinly settled.