Read full poem →With all the marks of reverend age appears,
His temples thinly spread with silver hairs:
Propp'd on his staff, and stooping as he goes,
Dictionary Entry
In a thin layer or manner; sparsely or meagerly.
In a Sentence
“The artist thinly spread the paint on the canvas, creating a delicate effect.”
Origin
From Old English 'þynne', meaning 'not thick'.
Common Phrases
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Poetry examples for “thinly”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →The dusky, half-clad girls of tired feet
Are trudging, thinly shod, from street to street.
Read full poem →The leaflets out of the ash-tree shed
Are thinly spread
In the road, like little black fish, inlaid,
Read full poem →Others' great actions are
But thinly scattered, here and there;
At best, but all one single star;
Read full poem →Too long shut in strait and few,
Thinly dieted on dew,
I will use the world, and sift it,
Read full poem →Auld Goody Blake was old and poor,
Ill fedd she was, and thinly clad;
And any man who pass’d her door,
Read full poem →And on these barren rocks, with juniper,
And heath, and thistle, thinly sprinkled o’er,
Fixing his downward eye, he many an hour
Read full poem →to the lamp that was covered with leaked oil. I rubbed this on my
hands, and thence, thinly over my whole body. Coal oil too thick makes
blisters; thin enough, brings peace.
Read full poem →Blue with all malice, like a madman's flash;
And thinly drawn with famishing for flesh.
Read full poem →Since, seldom coming in that long year set,
Like stones of worth they thinly placed are,
Or captain jewels in the carcanet.