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

I knew I’d be dropping by Scardino’s in Torrance and Tony’s on the Pier in Redondo, but the flock of early bird restaurants I remembered from years past seemed to have thinned.

From Los Angeles Times • May 6, 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