sparingly
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Sparingly used Anthony Gill scored a career-high 15 points as seven players scored in double figures for the Wizards.
From Washington Post • Feb. 10, 2022
Sparingly deployed digital screens include a useful animation that shows how Tut’s four canopic jars — storage vessels for his liver, stomach, lungs and intestines — were elaborately packed inside a ceremonial chest.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 29, 2018
Sparingly provided with munitions of war, possessing no central government, and lacking unity among themselves, the colonies seemed at the first to be leading a forlorn hope.
From Beaumarchais and the War of American Independence by Kite, Elizabeth S.
Sparingly must we drink of the waterskin, Waterskin made of a nursery jug.
From Golden Moments Bright Stories for Young Folks by Anonymous
Sparingly; for He used it almost entirely in curing the diseases of poor people; and secretly; for He used it almost entirely in remote places.
From Westminster Sermons with a Preface by Kingsley, Charles
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