Became sparse

Usage examples of thinned.

Tagmeth had been claimed once, then abandoned as blood feuds and foreign wars thinned the ranks of the Highborn and the great houses began to gather their strength in keeps farther south.

Ahead it thinned and dropped to knee-level, leaving an arena of sorts a good fifty feet across.

Nearly two Earth years in the wilderness had thinned him down, and given him something of the feral look the others at the Helot table had.

Beyond the bridge, the giant monoliths thinned and the cleared area that was Rybatta proper began.

The other farmers could not believe that a man his age could have thinned so large a portion of his crop, for he was thick-set, and bending must have been painful.

Tranquilino, for example, blocked and thinned two rows simultaneously.

This left his right hand free to chop with the hoe, now one row, now the other, while his left thinned the multiple clumps as far ahead as he could reach.

The rumble of Hal Samdu came thinned and furred through the communicator.

It was the long-awaited voice of Giles Habibula, thinned, muffled with the hum of the instrument, and hoarse with some desperate anxiety.

Then the ground snow thinned, revealing the broad leaves of winter ferns and stripped shoots of milkweed.

The scansule tube exploded, and before the crash and bang thinned out, the door to his room swung open.

The jewel caught the light and warped it into a luminous star whose fine, bright threads of energy thinned out and re-formed with the quivering of his hand.

But while he had been immersed in his memories it had thinned to a rill, then a trickle, then flat land cracked and shrunken in the sun.

Thoughts and hunger thinned away from Nefandi as he relaxed himself, and he sensed once more a strong, steady pulse of kha somewhere to the west.

Gradually his vision wavered and thinned as the tensions inside him slackened.