On this page you'll find 10+ example sentences with Thinned. Discover the meaning, synonyms such as cut or weakened and how to use the word correctly in a sentence.
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Thinned meaning
simple past and past participle of thin
Using Thinned
- The main meaning on this page is: simple past and past participle of thin
- Useful related words include: cut, weakened, diluted, dilute.
- In the example corpus, thinned often appears in combinations such as: thinned out, thinned the, has thinned.
Context around Thinned
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 8 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Thinned
- In this selection, "thinned" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, crowd, age, departures and trees stand out and add context to how "thinned" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include albeit un thinned and be temporarily thinned out news. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "thinned" sits close to words such as aaryan, acrimony and akash, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with thinned
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Since then, the crowds have thinned. (6 words)
We lived, and we learned… albeit un thinned. (8 words)
Subsequent ‘truffle forestry’ thinned trees to provide them with more sunlight. (11 words)
Losing Tim Patrick to a season-ending injury for a second consecutive season and KJ Hamler to yet another health setback has thinned the number of veteran targets at Russell Wilson’s disposal two weeks before they even play a preseason game. (42 words)
She felt, for what would prove to be the last time, the sensation that had often come over her when Joe was a cotton-diapered infant and milk-toothed toddler: that he had somehow stretched out, thinned out, and grown taller overnight. (42 words)
Before age thinned and grayed her hair, she too had thick, dark brown locks, and she swears up and down she could’ve been a hand model in college, with her long natural nails and wrinkle-free hands like my own. (41 words)
Example sentences (20)
As the crowd thinned in the late morning, Hahn sat down in a chair near the burial site to talk things over with the lingerers.
Before age thinned and grayed her hair, she too had thick, dark brown locks, and she swears up and down she could’ve been a hand model in college, with her long natural nails and wrinkle-free hands like my own.
But I’ve thinned out my visits over the years as I’ve become more health-conscious.
Losing Tim Patrick to a season-ending injury for a second consecutive season and KJ Hamler to yet another health setback has thinned the number of veteran targets at Russell Wilson’s disposal two weeks before they even play a preseason game.
The departures thinned the government’s wartime ranks as Mr Zelensky had already lost his interior minister, who oversaw Ukraine’s police and emergency services, and the rest of the ministry’s leadership in a helicopter crash last week.
We lived, and we learned… albeit un thinned.
Beat, adding boiling water (about 2 tablespoons) until thinned to desired consistency.
It’s a devastating injury to a Raptors roster already thinned by several injuries.
Subsequent ‘truffle forestry’ thinned trees to provide them with more sunlight.
The list of Russian athletes going to Paris has thinned to just over a dozen, with several Russian sports federations refusing to compete in what they see as humiliating conditions.
Although numbers have thinned since earlier, some protesters who have remained are becoming confrontational with police now, chanting and arguing with officers on police lines.
By examining the differences in the surface elevation of glaciers at different points in time, we were able to measure how quickly glaciers across the region have thinned over the past five decades.
Galloni worries the complicated federal process will overwhelm the staff, whose ranks were thinned under Rick Scott’s administration.
German Defense Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer and Foreign Minister Heiko Maas wrote to lawmakers that the troops in the Iraqi bases in Baghdad and Taji would be “temporarily thinned out,” news agency dpa reported Tuesday.
I mean, I think there's a very interesting sense in which, for a variety of reasons, I think our society has a kind of thinned-out intellectual discourse.
Poll workers reported long lines of voters as the polls opened at 6 a.m. These thinned but remained steady into the late morning hours.
She felt, for what would prove to be the last time, the sensation that had often come over her when Joe was a cotton-diapered infant and milk-toothed toddler: that he had somehow stretched out, thinned out, and grown taller overnight.
She said the outbreak of the coronavirus had also added more pressure on a thinned-out health care system, which already struggles to provide adequate services to protect pregnant women.
Hunting brings in tourists and income during the winter months, but the deer population has been so thinned that the season could be curtailed or canceled altogether.
Since then, the crowds have thinned.
Common combinations with thinned
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- thinned out 10×
- thinned the 6×
- has thinned 4×
- have thinned 4×
- thinned to 3×
- had thinned 3×
- thinned and 2×
- thinned by 2×
- and thinned 2×
- be thinned 2×