scantly
Example Sentences
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Trump, who has scantly used the Meta-owned platforms, and refused to return to Twitter/X after Elon Musk restored his account access, is much more active on his own social media platform, Truth Social.
From Salon ● Jul. 13, 2024
Wagner writes these scenes scantly, perhaps to avoid bogging the movie down in long dialogue but seemingly, even more crucially, to give the characters’ pasts an air of quasi-universality.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 9, 2019
Cameron Folmar carries the 80-minute show on a scantly decorated stage; if “Santaland” is meant as theater’s break at the comedy club, it’s a thin start.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 13, 2017
First, China would face a humanitarian crisis in its scantly populated northwest region, as millions of North Koreans flee the ensuing anarchy.
From Slate ● Mar. 6, 2017
“I scantly know, Jack,” answered he, shaking his white head.
From Robin Tremayne A Story of the Marian Persecution by Holt, Emily Sarah
