The act of diluting something

Usage examples of thinning.

Ahead, the pearlescent fog thickened, shimmering, coalescing then thinning as if trying to assume a form.

The once revered warrior has become revered once again, at least among the thinning ranks of Achaeans, appearing on his four-horsed chariot wherever the Greek lines appeared ready to give way, urging trench engineers to replace stakes and redig collapsed areas, improving the internal trenches with sand berms and firing slits, sending men and boys out as scouts at night to steal water from the Trojans, and always calling for the men to have heart.

He pondered the sluggish swirl of the deep mists that screened the sunshine and shrouded the mountains, the thinning groves of Bonnie Blues dotted with wilt and spotting, the lakes and rivers turned gray and clouded, and the meadows and grasslands grown sparse and wintry.

I came up a steepish ramp through thinning pines, and emerged at once from the shade of the gorge, onto an open plateau perhaps half a mile in width, and two or three hundred yards deep, like a wide ledge on the mountainside.

The forest was thinning, ash and leatherleaf and black elder giving way to willow and whitewood and wateroak, and some she did not recognize.

Some buttonwood trees, now thinning out with annual age, conveyed by their speckled trunks the notion of a changing social standard, white and brown, native and foreign, while the lines of maples stood on blackened boles like old retired seamen, bronzed in many voyages and planted home forever.

He betrayed his annoyance with a thinning of tone so slight that only Dama, of those in the office, heard and understood it.

Toxemia, Stress, Edema, Kidney Troubles, and just below your right big toe, Weight Problems, Anxiety and Thinning Hair.

He turned to Ekman, the Minister for Munitions, a pallid Northerner with thinning gingery hair.

A stout middle-class man of forty-eight with a large, plump face, thinning hair and a rather Germanic if good-natured appearance, he had begun his career in China as a language student in 1907, and had served as Consul in cities from Hankow to Chungking.

Gray hair sprang in thinning coils from her scalp, and she wore a flowered housedress with black plastic slip-ons.

It was not Vancourt, however, but Caroline, Lady Kenilworth, come to call in a cloud of French perfume and, Meg naughtily noted, a cloud of false French hair, neatly adjusted to hide her own thinning locks.

I was two miles away, a hundred leaps or more, and the air about me was thinning out as it thins under an air-pump, and the cold was gripping at my joints.

He was a fairly small man, immaculately dressed, but beginning to show his age, with thinning gray hair and heavy owllike glasses.

My father there -- that portly unshaven gent with his thinning hair flying up and his front false tooth out, wearing a food-stained shirt and, at midafternoon, pajama bottoms, with a frayed belt cinched over his potbelly to bolster the elastic waistband.