have thinned
- present perfect of thin.
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
Tesla remains the dominant force in the electric vehicle market, but rapidly increasing competition from traditional carmakers and other EV manufacturers have thinned sales, Brauer said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2025
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
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