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

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

But on Tuesday they learned that he was already 3,500 miles away, in Novaya Zemlya, a desolate, scantly populated group of islands in the Arctic Ocean, where he will serve at an air defense base.

From New York Times • Dec. 24, 2019

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

If we three were in the world, I should be scantly fit to bear her train and you would be little better than her washerwoman.

From In Convent Walls The Story of the Despensers by Irwin, M. (Madelaine)