thin out
Example Sentences
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After the game, the club will stay open for an hour to allow traffic to thin out, and club patrons will be able to watch the coach’s postgame news conference through glass panels.
From Los Angeles Times • May 11, 2026
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
As part of an effort to thin out its money-losing “moonshot” investments with no near-term revenue prospects, Google sold Boston Dynamics to Softbank in 2017.
From Barron's • Jan. 6, 2026
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
On the opposite bank, the trees began to thin out, and the next time they camped, the earth was the color of ocher and smelled of metal.
From "Huntress" by Malinda Lo
