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Thinning in sentence

13 examples of Thinning in a sentence

And yet, if you take, for example, subclinical osteoporosis, a bone thinning disease, the precondition, otherwise known as osteopenia, you would have to treat 270 women for three years in order to prevent one broken bone.
But most will show two telltale properties: sudden thinning at a threshold force, and more gradual thinning after a small force is applied for a long time.
Now that they’re less dense, they rise in a thinning column.
I did notice at the Lancaster, Pennsylvania Wal-Mart, that far too many people in their 20s and 30s looked a decade or two from death, with patchy, flared-up skin and thinning, stringy hair and browning, ground-down teeth and a lostness in their eyes.
It was breaking off, it was thinning, looking just extremely dry and brittle.
I mean, if you think about it, the cattle and the sheep ate the grasses which had been the conveyer belt for the historical fires, and this prevented once-frequent fires from thinning out trees and burning up dead wood.
We can combine mechanical thinning with some of these treatments where it's appropriate to do so, and capture some commercial value and perhaps underwrite some of these treatments, especially around urban areas.
Instead of putting all the fires out, we need to put some of them back to work thinning forests and reducing dead fuels.
I have to say that Hurley was virtually unrecognizable, whether it was pre-surgery or that simply thinning her eye brows really dose the trick, I am not sure.
However, new reports show a thinning of the ozone layer over the Arctic, and last year’s Antarctic ozone hole was as large and deep as ever.
The only decision before him and his thinning ranks of allies is whether to leave peacefully or go down fighting.
He had sought for the key, the piece which held the others; he attacked it furiously, making holes in it, sawing it, thinning it so that it lost its resistance; while through the holes and the cracks the water which escaped in small jets blinded him and soaked him in icy rain.
He was very pale, and had dark blotches under his eyes, but otherwise he was as he had ever been, with the keen, hungry nose, the wiry moustache, and the close-cropped head thinning away to baldness upon the top.