Spread 1/4 lb softened margarine or cooking fat fairly thickly all over the surface.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

After a few drinks he was beginning to speak thickly.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

EURASIAN WATER MILFOIL (Myriophyllum spicatum) grows thickly from the bottom and mats on the surface.    From Wordnik.com.  [Catch More Largemouth Bass in Weeds in Early Spring] Reference

Oh, Beatrice! "he called thickly, in guarded tones.    From Wordnik.com.  [Darkness and Dawn] Reference

"Helm," von Schiller called thickly after him, "make certain that nobody disturbs me.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Seventh Scroll]

Well, when it got kind of thickly populated through here, they built on to it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oral History Interview with Raymond, Eunice, Wayne, and Charles Russell English, December 8, 1999. Interview K-0280. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference

Day after day the same kind of thickly-wooded forest was seen on both shores, until it became almost monotonous.    From Wordnik.com.  [Old Gold The Cruise of the "Jason" Brig] Reference

"Why have you not been to school?" he said thickly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories Worth Rereading] Reference

Time that had powdered Mrs. Curtis 'head so thickly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ruth Fielding of the Red Mill Or, Jasper Parloe's Secret] Reference

Meanwhile, toast two slices of good, thickly-cut bread.    From Wordnik.com.  [Big Girls, Small Kitchen: Lunch From the Farmers' Market] Reference

She butters the toast thickly and then douses it with syrup.    From Wordnik.com.  [Desilu, Three Cameras] Reference

Spread thickly on warm rye bread, it was ambrosia for the soul.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jay Weston: The Atkins "Schmaltz" Diet: Memories of Jewish Food!] Reference

Our house's mouth like morning breath, thickly caked with yesterday.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jenny Whistled Through The Mail Slot] Reference

We could not go out for the drifting sand, without being thickly veiled.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Woman's Life-Work — Labors and Experiences] Reference

And so thickly did the rain fall that it became almost as dark as night.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

It was here that Jeanne came, thickly veiled, since her return from Nice.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

Some ice-bound streams and ponds were thickly mantled in the white covering.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ruth Fielding at Snow Camp Or, Lost in the Backwoods] Reference

The next morning the surface of the bed was thickly littered with dead earthworms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Organic Gardener's Composting] Reference

Larive will die with his breast more thickly plastered with decorations than an Odd.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

He's pointing at the thickly forested mountains east of the tiny provincial capital.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rumors Of Bin Laden's Lair] Reference

Under the shade of the trees and mulched thickly by leaves, the forest floor usually stays moist.    From Wordnik.com.  [Organic Gardener's Composting] Reference

When the Bobbsey twins, little and big, came out of school the snow was coming down more thickly.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bobbsey Twins at School] Reference

The professor began to notice a deposit of ash that lay thickly on the ground in sheltered places.    From Wordnik.com.  [On a Torn-Away World Or, the Captives of the Great Earthquake] Reference

The part of Ohio that I hailed from was not thickly settled, but wolves had been driven out long before.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

  She let the tears run down her face and into the hair that now grew thickly just below her cheek bones.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hal and Estelle] Reference

Once the actor slouched back into his seat a collective embarrassment had spread thickly among the passengers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fifty-One] Reference

The city is still thickly atmospheric, with bazaars, Byzantine churches and Ottoman mansions pretty much everywhere.    From Wordnik.com.  [Turkish Delight] Reference

So thickly did living and dead snails line the island highways "dat de jeeps er slipten," one Dutch scientist reported.    From Wordnik.com.  [Attack Of the Aliens] Reference

After a brisk run, he returned by chance through the Porte Maillot, then not nearly so thickly inhabited as it is to-day.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

It was grown up thickly with large trees and undergrowth, making it difficult to penetrate with troops, even when not defended.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

The cape dithered congruent to the flow of gusty air from the sea, and thickly gloved hands were held out in a gesture of calm.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Messenger, Chapter 1] Reference

 The treacherous journey took her through thickly padded bushes, distracted by the unbearable scent of a rose … she stopped.    From Wordnik.com.  [Honeybee] Reference

The family followed, Rose and Ted and Jacqueline, and Ethel, thickly veiled, shepherding all but the tiniest of her ten children.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bobby's Last, Longest Day] Reference

The mountaintop views take in rumpled, thickly forested ridgelines and shadowed valleys all the way out to the glinting Tyrrhenian Sea.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Other Tuscany] Reference

To-day have we not fifteen provinces for the most part thickly peopled, and long since fully explored to the shores of the Arctic Ocean?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dominion in 1983] Reference

Once you spent half the morning going up and down the escalator so that you could see her over the thickly forested juniors 'casual wear.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shopgirls] Reference