scantly

Example Sentences

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The business model and LIV’s lofty ambitions, however far-fetched they might seem in this early stage, are scantly visible right now.

From Washington Post • Oct. 6, 2022

And they have rolled out a conveyor belt of scantly tested substitute chemicals that sometimes turn out to be just as dangerous as their predecessors.

From New York Times • Oct. 20, 2021

Perhaps the most important, though scantly reported, manifestation of this has been the emergence of a new group of retired officers called Flag Officers 4 America — "flag officers" meaning generals and admirals.

From Salon • Jun. 29, 2021

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

At first no doubt, you used signs or symbols like the feather with which Wildrake let Cromwell's advent be known in Woodstock—a most ingenious device for which, by the way, the recipients were scantly grateful.

From A Letter Book Selected with an Introduction on the History and Art of Letter-Writing by Saintsbury, George