Sentence examples for thinly peopled from inspiring English sources
The production, by François Girard, offered a thinly peopled array of steel-gray and blood-red tableaux, evocative of a postapocalyptic cult gathering.
The territories were huge, thinly peopled, and poorly endowed with resources that could finance colonial administration and make a profit for the colonizing power.
Her neighbors think her lonely in the big house with only a dog for company, but though she is occasionally frightened, she enjoys the thinly peopled solitude.
They held a superior strategic position; operating from inside lines, they could strike at almost any point in the long, thinly peopled French crescent extending from Louisbourg to New Orleans.
"Because the embryo champion didn't turn up," Stoute smiles thinly, "people might have thought the Derby was anticlimactic".
The mean temperature of London is a degree or two higher than that of the surrounding country, and Pallas believed, that the climate of even so thinly a peopled country as Russia was sensibly modified by similar causes.
The entire industry, as Treasury adviser Shriti Vadera put it in 2001, is peopled by "thinly capitalised … profiteers of the worst kind".
Along Tunisia's porous and thinly-peopled borders with Algeria and Libya, there is a danger of networks merging between smugglers of arms, drugs and other contraband, and jihadist guerrillas, warns a recent report from the International Crisis Group, a think tank.
Does a roman a clef, say Jacqueline Susann's "Valley of the Dolls," count as fiction even though everyone knows that its characters are thinly disguised real people?
Spreading people thinly across the countryside, Vermont-style, may make them look and feel green, but it actually increases the damage they do to the environment while also making that damage harder to see and to address.
Spreading people thinly across the countryside may seem to decrease environmental impact (it certainly looks and smells better), but in fact it substantially increases that impact "while also making the problems... harder to see and to address".
