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