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• He laid on the solicitude pretty thickly.From the entry lay on
• At either end were heavy floodgates, dropwalls of thickly forged iron.2016, Daniel Polansky, Those Below. From the entry dropwall
• He’d been rockabyeing in a rockingchair, then on the bed, thickly rumpled.2012, Joshua Cohen, Four New Messages, Graywolf Press. From the entry rockabye
• When cold, sprinkle the custard thickly with sugar and salamander it.19th century (quoted 1977), Richard Daunton-Fear, Penelope Vigar, Australian Colonial Cookery, Rigby, →ISBN, page 41. From the entry salamander
• He was short and very dark with a flat head covered with thickly greased hair.1953, Ian Fleming, “Moment of Truth”, in Casino Royale, London: Pan Books, published 1955, page 79. From the entry Corsican
• The last word rhymes with atrocious and means thickly speaking drunk.1949, Charles Graves, Ireland Revisited, page 20. From the entry stocious
• Fruit trees grow thickly alongside the roads instead of the hawthorn hedges common in England.1947 January and February, Gerald Druce (Jun.), “A Journey on the "Slovak Arrow"”, in Railway Magazine, page 17. From the entry fruit tree
• The words cam thickly, now halting and now overtripping each other.1911, Van Tassel Sutphen, “The Talisman”, in Collier's, volume 47, page 27. From the entry overtrip
• The very air was still and subdued and he felt alerted to stay concealed back within the river's thickly brushed margins.2020, Jackson Burrows, Moons of the Swan. From the entry brushed
• His accent was thickly French; it sounded mustachey.2013, Katherine Rundell, Rooftoppers, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, →ISBN, page 121. From the entry mustachey
• The piece is like an hommage to Ives: atmospheric and thickly textured music with multiple elements happening at once.2007 April 30, Anthony Tommasini, “Doing Everything but Playing the Music”, in New York Times. From the entry hommage
• They spread the lime together, sprinkling it thickly along the firestep, throwing shovelfuls at a bad patch of wall.1991, Pat Barker, Regeneration (The Regeneration Trilogy), Penguin, published 2014, page 140. From the entry fire step
• The district or county is large, but it is not so thickly populated as the plains in China.1934, White Unto Harvest in China: A Survey of the Lutheran United Mission, the China Mission of the N.L.C.A., 1890-1934, →OCLC, page 91. From the entry Paokang
• “Howja do that?” she mumbled thickly.2010, Charisse Goodman, The Starved Senses, Dog Ear Publishing,, →ISBN, page 257. From the entry howja
• It makes for a set of quiet images, unshouting in their focus on the thickly laid and deeply entrenched scars of social and political shifts.2008, ArtSouthAfrica, volume 5, number 2, page 74. From the entry unshouting
• Along the river Neb, at Ballig, the common valerian (Valeriana officinalis) is blooming thickly; tall, slender, pale pink, beautifully scented, moving in the wind.[1986, Richard Adams, A Nature Diary, Penguin Group, →ISBN, page 82. From the entry allheal
• The hauberk is shown continuous with the coif; the legs are protected by chausses of some pliable material, thickly covered with protective studs.1909, Charles Henry Ashdown, European Arms & Armor, page 76. From the entry chausse
• Then the huge reddish trunks of massarandubas began to slide past us, their lofty crowns matting together so thickly that they seemed to make a solid roof.2005, Arthur O[lney] Friel, “The Tailed Men”, in Amazon Nights: Classic Adventure Tales from the Pulps, [Holicong, Pa.]: Wildside Press…. From the entry massaranduba
• Two hours later I stumbled indoors bathed in sweat, throbbing from caterpillar stings, and covered so thickly with red clay that I could have passed for a Romertopf cooker.2001, Fine Gardening, numbers 77-88, page 90. From the entry Romertopf
• And who is it who contemplates those thickly studded doors and windows covered with closely worked mashrabiyya and seriously thinks that some sort of enchantment lies beyond them?1988, Robert Irwin, The Mysteries of Algiers, Dedalus, published 1993, page 123. From the entry mashrabiyya
• Base of abdomen thickly covered with silvery-yellow to golden hairing and strikingly contrasting in colour with remainder of abdomen, which appears partly or entirely black with black hairing.1973, Kenneth G. V. Smith, Teresa Clay, John Smart, Insects and other arthropods of medical importance, page 128. From the entry hairing
• Perhaps that explained the breakfast of oatmeal porridge—piled plates of thick stirabout thickly sprinkled with pale, very sweet powdery brown sugar—and the eggs to follow with rolls and butter.1915, Dorothy Richardson, Pointed Roofs, Broadview, published 2014, page 92. From the entry stirabout
• They put on her a purple vest, thickly embroidered with gold and pearls, underdrawers of scarlet silk, and gauze trousers (such as Eastern women wear) of many folds.1901, Maurice Hewlett, The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay. From the entry underdrawers

Meaning of thickly

1. adverb In a thick manner.

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Questions about thickly in a sentence

How do you use thickly in a sentence?

Thickly is used as an adverb. For example: “He laid on the solicitude pretty thickly.”

What is a short sentence with thickly?

““Howja do that?” she mumbled thickly.”

What does thickly mean?

Thickly means in a thick manner.