thinned
Example Sentences
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To avert future calamities, the forest outside Bordeaux must be thinned and its fire breaks widened, said Arthur Guérin-Turcq, a Sorbonne University geographer whose family cultivates pines near Le Porge.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026
"Practices will need to be incentivised back into NHS work in the places where the NHS footprint has thinned most."
From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2026
Within minutes the crowds thinned, leaving long stretches of sand with barely another beachgoer in sight.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
One franchisee operating several beverage stores in Henan province said sales volumes remained high but profits had thinned sharply over the past two years because “everyone nearby is running promotions all the time.”
From Barron's ● May 26, 2026
Once we got north of Phoenix, past all the tract-house suburbs, the traffic thinned, and Dad started going faster and faster.
From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls
