- present participle of thicken.
thickening
Example Sentences
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On a humbler scale, Kail poetically marks the passage of time with a thickening palm tree.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026
That uplift helped support additional thickening of coastal ice.
From Science Daily ● May 29, 2026
For hypertrophic cardiomyopathy—the thickening of heart muscles—it was 56 steps.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 19, 2026
In trials on monkeys, the research team found the patches were good at contracting, enhancing and thickening the heart wall, which improved the pumping of the whole heart.
From BBC ● Jan. 29, 2025
The thickening woods made it hard to see more than just a few yards ahead.
From I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 by Lauren Tarshis
