Sentence examples for means thinly from inspiring English sources

This means thinly sliced finger sandwiches, cake (frangipani and several other choices), a perfect, craggy-textured, currant-studded scone with jam and Devonshire cream.

(Has anyone?) The phrase "chipped" refers to the cut of the beef: It means delicately, thinly sliced.

Spreading widely may mean spreading thinly with little impact.

The quirks of history and politics mean that the thinly populated rump county takes as much as 3.1 million acre-feet (that's a trillion gallons) a year from the Colorado.

"A lot of the expansion in new subjects has been in the post-1992 universities and they are now getting research funding recognising their achievements – as they should – but it means research funding is more thinly spread in traditional language departments who are mainly in the Russell group and other pre-92 universities," he said.

In Naples meanwhile, she lives vicariously through her friend Giaconda – but we get very little sense of what that means, since Giaconda is herself so thinly sketched out.

For example the report argues that the rural nature of Wales means specialist services are spread too thinly, which has a negative effect on the recruitment and training of doctors.

The burgeoning claimant count means that job advisers may be too thinly spread to offer personalised help, as a Commons committee recently pointed out.

This means attention from clickers is spread more thinly.

And that means this: your Sunday morning liveblog - thinly sourced, packed with intimations, and filled with sexual innuendo.

But the headline numbers will be depressed by a reduced pension tax credit, which means that the dividend looks to be too thinly covered by post-tax profit.