The coasts maintain a thin scattering of population but the interior is practically uninhabited.

Most worlds had a thin scattering of modern equipment over a mass of hand-tools.

Before this time the Kettering area was most likely populated by a thin scattering of family farmsteads.

A thin scattering of sawdust on the floor, despite having been stirred up, retained traces of the struggle.

This community is little more than a thin scattering of houses.

The thin scattering of stars I had seen by normal vision became a milky, opalescent belt covering the heavens.

The thin scattering of fellow privileged customers wore a wide array of planetary fashions.

Then he had gone past and there was a belated and thin scattering of shots from behind.

Grass and bushes, appeared in a thin scattering, then became noticeably thicker.

Although the moon had long gone about its business, a thin scattering of stars remained faintly visible in the deceptively dark blue heavens.