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UK
/θˈɪnli/
]
[ US /ˈθɪnɫi/ ]
[ US /ˈθɪnɫi/ ]
ADVERB
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without force or sincere effort
smiled thinly -
in a small quantity or extent
apply paint lightly
spread the margarine thinly over the meat -
without viscosity
the blood was flowing thin -
in a widely distributed manner
thinly overgrown mountainside
How To Use thinly In A Sentence
- Cut off the crust from one of the loaves and slice thinly. Times, Sunday Times
- For the burgers• 1½ pounds fresh tuna steaks, cut into 1/2-inch dice• 2 tablespoons Dijon mustard• 1 tablespoon chipotle pepper in adobo purée• 1 tablespoon honey• 3 tablespoons canola oil• 2 green onions, green and pale-green part, thinly sliced• Salt and freshly ground pepper• 4 kaiser rolls• 2 ounces watercress• 1 red onion, peeled, halved and thinly sliced. Bobby Flay’s tips for great burgers
- When you have too many lemons or limes or oranges and some are going to spoil, slice some thinly and then freeze the slices.
- The _first glume_ is chartaceous, obovate-oblong, obtuse, many-nerved (thirteen or more), thinly ciliate with long hairs and with A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
- Chop the half onion thinly and fry under low heat so that it becomes soft and translucent. Times, Sunday Times
- Slice the kombu thinly and put back into the lentils. Times, Sunday Times
- Private clinics providing thinly veiled opportunities for queue-jumping have expanded.
- There's also a cloying crème brûlée made with semolina, and a refreshingly chalky caramel parfait on a bed of thinly sliced stewed pears.
- Were they really so thinly capitalized that any haircut would have triggered system-wide failures?
- Black; the head and thorax very closely punctured, thinly clothed with griseous pubescence, that on the face, thorax beneath, and on the coxæ most dense and glittering; antennæ more slender than is usual in this genus, and tapering to their apex, the joints slightly subarcuate; the mandibles bidentate at their apex and with a yellow spot at their base. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology