The paper is placed in a jar containing a shallow layer of solvent and sealed.

Fine earth is washed down from slopes, making a shallow layer.

The ingots lay in a shallow layer over the bottom of the coffin.

This must have been a very shallow layer here.

Strong winds will mix up the air and keep that shallow layer of cool air from forming near the ground.

The people covered the islands with a shallow layer of seaweed and sand from the ocean.

Warm a shallow layer of oil in a heavy-based pan.

Heat exchange between this shallow layer of warm air and the cooler air above is very inefficient.

They were still under a shallow layer of water.

Then, as the shallow layer of water above the quicksand closed over her, the cat suddenly abandoned her.