- 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
"Symptoms like thickening and laxity of the skin, so-called 'elephant skin', extreme shedding and sharply defined areas of redness next to normal skin."
From BBC ● Mar. 28, 2026
The world’s wind had been sinking, and the driving sleet of the storm had given way to a chill, ragged, thickening mist.
From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin
