thin
adjective
having relatively little extent from one surface or side to the opposite; not thick.
have thinned
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present perfectof thin.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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They can detect fibers that have thinned, broken apart, or lost their connections.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 20, 2026
In the high-end shopping districts of Shanghai’s Jing’an and Xintiandi, the queues that once snaked around Louis Vuitton and Chanel have thinned.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 27, 2026
“Even as demolitions and smaller, differentiated types of replacements and variations have thinned the ranks of the projects, there remain 886,000 public housing ‘units’ that are home to 1.6 million Americans,” he writes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2025
Injuries and the early-season struggles of two right-handers who were dominant for the Dodgers in 2023 have thinned out a bullpen expected to be solid.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 20, 2024
Now the magic seemed to have thinned into a tiny trickle dripping through a narrow channel in her porous bones.
From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill
