Sentence examples for scattered thinly from inspiring English sources

Even if there were billions in total, they could have been scattered thinly across the cosmos.

And these are scattered thinly over 13 nations, four of which no longer have viable breeding populations.

Many rare earths are not as scarce as their misleading name suggests, but they are scattered thinly and can be difficult to extract.

Old believers are scattered thinly in remote regions of the former Soviet Union, although Russian religious expert Sergei Filatov estimates there are at least 400,000 of them.

It hasn't created the kinds of jobs that the state envisioned and so state expenditures were instead scattered very thinly in the form of welfare and other payments that are frequently diverted by patronage politics and sometimes organised crime".

Olives are a great addition to stews, as they counterbalance the richness of fatty meats (see the lamb dish below), while their saltiness makes them exceptionally good with sweet citrus: try black olives and toasted, slivered almonds scattered over thinly sliced oranges and red onions, dressed with olive oil and a splash of orange flower water.

A thinly scattered population and government subsidies for road and air travel did not help.

That's because Lib-Dem supporters today, like those of the Alliance in 1983, are thinly scattered across the land.

This is especially true in America, where his work is thinly scattered across a number of museums and largely ignored.Ensor's renown may be about to change.

Using the privilege brought by the income from the licence fee, it should serve the thinly scattered few as well as the many.

The home fans were rather more thinly scattered, but they kept up the chorus from Bob Marley's Three Little Birds – "every little thing's gonna be all right" and so it proved.