The rest of his army was thinly spread along the west bank.

The Nets' playoff experience is thinly spread among 7 players and 66 games.

He says that they have to police a large area, with officers spread thinly.

And yet, on the other hand, the population was thinly spread and the land supported them.

Collections of small objects should always be gathered together and arranged in a group rather than being thinly spread around the house.

Despite their critical part in this war, the advisers are thinly spread.

Someone must lose, even if the losses are spread thinly.

Instead, he had to continue fighting the rebels for a time and his resources were spread thinly.

We did what we could, but our forces were small and thinly spread.

Far away, thinly spread, a vast multitude of human beings.