Sentence examples for was thinly held from inspiring English sources

The first, or front, line of trenches was known as the outpost line and was thinly held by scattered machine gunners distributed behind dense entanglements of barbed wire.

Grey Global is so thinly held that, as the joke goes, it trades by appointment.

Critics pounced, crying that the book was thinly sourced.

Heartburn was thinly fictionalised, but nobody was fooled.

But their frustration with him today was thinly veiled.

The cocktail reception afterwards was thinly cordial.

The cocktail reception afterward was thinly cordial.

The province was thinly populated and unattractive to physicians.

In Germany the legions of medium-sized, family-owned firms that make up the Mittelstand have long been thinly capitalised, mainly because holding more debt allowed their owners to pay less tax.

A continuous front line, no matter how thinly held.

Yet its demonstrations have been thinly attended.