Sentence examples for thinly settled from inspiring English sources
Vast stretches of thinly settled and empty territories lie north of the main settled belt.
In fairness, the kingdom is intensely entrepreneurial, having turned a thinly settled desert into an Arabian Singapore in a fistful of years.
The Romans cultivated both islands and silt lands, but in subsequent Anglo-Saxon times the Fens were a thinly settled waste.
The economic and social level associated with this industry is that of fairly small, peripatetic hunting and gathering groups spread out over a thinly settled landscape.
Each spring and fall he would set out by horseback or buggy to travel hundreds of miles over the thinly settled prairie, from one little county seat to another.
During the pre-Columbian period, the territories that became the United States and Canada (sometimes called Anglo-America) were areas thinly settled by an aboriginal population that just had begun to practice agriculture on a local scale.
A disparate, fluid population, they have settled thinly across the region, without a focal point, like, say, Chinatown.
A vast majority have arrived in the past two years, settling thinly across the country, with larger concentrations in San Diego, Phoenix, Houston and Dearborn, Mich.
"Houses were shut tight, and cloth wedged around doors and windows, but the dust came in so thinly that it could not be seen in the air, and it settled like pollen on the chairs and tables, on the dishes," wrote John Steinbeck in The Grapes of Wrath.
At the end of last year it settled for a wage rise in return for token increases in flexibility, but other reforms remain blocked.In higher education, teaching is in better shape, but research funding is inadequate and thinly spread.
