Thinly has 2 syllables and the stress is on the first syllable.
| # | Sentence | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | I like to spread my toast thinly with jam. | |
| 2. | They came from all over the world to make their homes in this new land, which was thinly populated by native Indians. | |
| 3. | As to the fragments of morality that are irregularly and thinly scattered in those books, they make no part of this pretended thing, revealed religion. | |
| 4. | Patriotism, often a thinly veiled form of collective self-worship, celebrates our goodness, our ideals, our mercy and bemoans the perfidiousness of those who hate us. | |
| 5. | Slice the bread very thinly. | |
| 6. | On a bright December morning long ago, two thinly clad children were kneeling upon the bank of a frozen canal in Holland. | |
| 7. | Slice the cucumbers as thinly as possible. |