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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Some glaciers have thinned so much that they may no longer be able to build up enough ice to surge again.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 17, 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
Herds in those areas have thinned, scientists have said.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 5, 2023
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
