Meanings of scatter thinly in English

Looking down, he saw tiny little crystals scattered thinly through the grass.

Certainly, his 21 Test appearances after that were scattered thinly.

A few country people were scattered thinly about among the pews, at their private devotions.

The magicians I've mentioned come from beyond-outthere beyond the frontier guards, where the stars are scattered thinly-

They were scattered thinly over a hilly and rough peninsula, chaparral-covered but for drifting sand and with few habitable valleys.

It is still found scattered thinly throughout all the wilder portions of the United States, but has everywhere retreated from the advance of civilization.

" 'Where the stars are scattered thinly,' " quoted Barr, " 'And the cold of space seeps in.' "

They are not that scarce; estimated breeding pairs are from 1,300 to 2,100, and these are, according to Cabot, scattered thinly throughout the island.