Scantily Sentence Examples

The Egri-dagh possesses a sharply defined crest, ranges at a general elevation of 8000 ft., is bare of timber, scantily supplied with water, and rugged and deeply fissured.

Skin thick and but scantily covered with hair.

Far poorer are the slopes of Parnon, consisting for the most part of barren limestone uplands scantily watered.

Tail longer than the body and head, scantily clothed with short hairs, prehensile.

Conifers are scantily represented by Callitris and Podocarpus, which is common to all three sub-regions; and Cycads by the endemic Encephalartos and Stangeria.

From Sackett's Harbor American expeditions against York (now Toronto) and Fort George respectively set out in April and May 1813; though scantily garrisoned it was successfully defended by General Jacob Brown (who had just taken command) against an attack, on the 29th of May, of Sir George Prevost with a squadron under Sir James Lucas Yeo.

It is still, however, the centre of distribution for a very large, if scantily populated, country, and it also derives much profit from pilgrims, lying as it does on the route which Shiite pilgrims from Persia must take on their way to the sacred cities.

The governing body of the Hansa was the assembly of town representatives, the "Hansetage," held irregularly as occasion required at the summons of Lubeck, and, with few exceptions, attended but scantily.

They are very scantily dressed, wear a variety of trinkets, with a knife, hatchet, spear, bow and arrows, the only weapons they use.

Great numbers of monks, each in solitary cell, spent lonely lives, scorched by the sun, ill-clad and scantily fed, pondering on portions of Scripture or copying MSS.

The lastnamed is an arid and scantily populated chalk range,with numerous small summits, whence it is also known as the Thousand Hills.

But the younger nations - French, English and German - were scantily endowed with saints; while, on the other hand, the belief obtained that the home-countries of Christianity, especially Rome and Jerusalem, possessed an inexhaustible supply of these sanctified bodies.

The eastward flanks of the Coast Range are very scantily forested, and they furnish not a single stream permanent enough to reach either the Sacramento or San Joaquin throughout the dry season.

Was he embarrassed because she was scantily dressed, or because he had inadvertently invaded her privacy?

Meanwhile, in London, pictures surfaced of French beau, Olivier Martinez dancing with scantily clad actor Michelle Rodriguez in St Tropez.

Sitting by the roadside is a scantily clad woman who with maternal care shelters her child from the biting blast.

I myself have never been trapped underground with 5 scantily clothed females (a la Descent) anyway.

The prisoners, wearing nothing but cut-off denim shorts and/or cowboy boots work in the quarry, overseen by equally scantily clad armed guards.

Flechier, in his account of the Grands Jours at Clermont many years after, speaks of a "belle savante" in whose company Pascal had frequently been - a trivial mention on which, as on many other trivial points of scantily known lives, the most childish structures of comment and conjecture have been based.

Meanwhile, Gary gets a job at a trendy clothing store, and sales skyrocket when the female customers see him scantily dressed.

Today, you can find hundreds of pin-up photographers who specialize in taking shots of scantily clad women in your local yellow pages.

Many people associate female glamour photography with images of scantily clad women in compromising positions.

Kim Kardashian, who made headlines for her sex tape scandal, is going the scantily clad route - posing for Playboy.

The Pussycat Dolls are a burlesque song and dance troupe, featuring scantily clad female performers.

Before the successful show featuring, among other things, scantily clad women jumping around on trampolines hit the airwaves, Kimmel found his big break into TV as the host of Win Ben Stein's Money.

The leaves vary much in form and size, but are mostly ovate, scantily covered with down on the under side, and finely toothed.

A scantily clad girl in a risqué position from the Playboy line of clothing may seem perfectly acceptable when having a beer with your pals, but it's not such a hot idea in mixed company.

Rumble Roses XX is a well-designed wrestling game featuring a number of scantily clad women.

The game offers a variety of characters to choose from, but there seem to be more scantily clad female characters in the mix.

Well, the scantily clad women (quite a departure from the days of Luna Vachon, I might add) are hitting up the Xbox 360 this time around in Rumble Roses XX.

Naturally, as a guy, I picked a scantily clad female barbarian.

It could be the allure of video game vixens like Lara Croft or scantily clad girls like Bloodrayne.

Pop icons Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera both posed for magazines, scantily clothed as they showed off their bulging bellies.

From their scantily constructed thong bikinis to their see-through when wet swimsuits, it takes a lot of confidence to wear the look of Look.

In the look first made famous by scantily clad Brazilians, you'll love the bright colors and custom fit of these rio suits.

Of course this led to Mark and Brian's embarrassment before the scantily clad beauties when their jet ski capsized.

The administrators on popular teen sites such as MySpace and Facebook strongly discourage users from posting pictures of themselves dressed scantily or posing suggestively.

Sorry folks, unlike the magazine, there are no pictures scantily clad women included in the blog.

A sexy tattoo of a scantily clad evil fairy is perfect on a biker's bicep or back.

It's very common to see Hot Yoga studios filled with scantily clad yogis.

The Lingerie Football League, referred to now simply as the LFL, features scantily clad women playing football.

Though the term lingerie party may conjure up scantily clad women modeling the wares, it is really a lot tamer than that.

While some may still complain about scantily clad women parading about in this fashion, the show continues to draw a huge audience.

She is one of many scantily clad women on the Internet, trying to carve a niche out for herself (albeit, a superficial niche).

If your fantasy story needs mighty thewed warriors and scantily clad lithesome sorceresses, then you need pictures by Frank Frazetta.

The west third of the state is comparatively scantily populated, owing to its aridity.

All over the Veluwe are heaths, scantily cultivated, with fields of rye and buckwheat, cattle of inferior quality, and sheep, and a sparse population.

The scantily clad Helene smiled at everyone in the same way, and Natasha gave Boris a similar smile.