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
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
You can thin out jams or preserves—apricot, cherry, fig, even marmalade—or simmer down fresh or frozen fruit into a sticky glaze.
From Salon • Apr. 18, 2025
She owned herself for a few hours every week was how she looked at it, to tug weeds, pluck caterpillars, thin out the sour greens, and glare at anyone planning incursions on her territory.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
