thin out
Example Sentences
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You catch up less, the messages thin out, and one day you realize you’re not really in each other’s lives anymore.
From Slate ● Apr. 12, 2026
According to Paul Gowder, professor of law at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, airports are liminal spaces for immigrants where constitutional protections thin out.
From Salon ● Mar. 26, 2026
AI has driven a surge in demand for the company’s dynamic random-access memory, or DRAM, products, giving Micron license to raise prices as customers’ inventories thin out.
From Barron's ● Oct. 31, 2025
The tree tends to produce more apples than it can handle, so growers must thin out the fruit.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2025
The trees start to thin out some, letting the sun directly on us now and then.
From "The Knife of Never Letting Go" by Patrick Ness
