thin out
Example Sentences
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This time, I visited in the fall shoulder season, when summer crowds thin out and prices dip.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 2, 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
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 older we get, the more the cushiony disks that separate the vertebrae thin out.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 11, 2024
As we pass through the residential section, the crowds thin out.
From "The Running Dream" by Wendelin Van Draanen
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