See, the vile Cossacks are thinning fast around us.
The patriot band was thinning fast; the most determined spirits among them, hoping only to sell their lives dearly; the strand was already strewed with their bodies; a dark red line of human gore fringing the pure ocean.
Interlucation, thinningand disbranching of a Wood.
They fell upon the revolters from behind, spreading death and consternation in the thinning ranks of those from Sephar's pits.
The nearby jungle was thinning out, as well, and the air was noticeably cooler.
Jotan was watching the gradually thinning knot of Sepharians at the foot of the throne.
By occasionally thinning out the plants as they become too thick, a bed may be continued many years.
Three plants are sufficient for a hill; to which number the hills should ultimately be thinned, making the final thinning when all danger from bugs and other vermin is past.
The plants taken up in thinningmay be transplanted, and new beds formed if occasion require.
The same amount of seed will be required as of the Long Orange: and the general method of culture should be the same; with the exception, that, inthinning out the plants, the White Belgian should have more space.
It may easily be raised from seed sown in spring, in drills eighteen inches asunder; afterwards thinning out the young plants to a foot apart in the rows.
The seed should be sown in April, in drills a foot asunder; thinning the plants, when a few inches high, to nine inches apart.
If required, the plants taken out in thinning may be reset in rows at the same distances apart.
I noted how still everything had become, because of the thinning of the air.
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.
Colonel, in spite of the suggestions of war, was peacefully engaged, being seated on the top of a pair of steps thinningout the grapes which hung from the roof.
Usually the thinning is completed by the time the plants have four rough leaves.
When thinning the rows of seedlings in the garden the best plants should be allowed to remain, but due consideration should be given to the matter of proper spacing.
Thinning is generally left until the time of the first hand weeding, when all thick bunches along the rows are thinned to a uniform stand of eight or ten plants to the foot.
There is a tendency for some gardeners to leave the plants of carrots, onions, and similar vegetables too thick, or to defer the thinning too long, with the intention of making use of the thinnings.
Experienced growers are frequently able by using extreme care in regulating the drills to distribute onion seed in rows where the crop is to mature so that little thinning will be necessary.
By planting in straight rows the seedlings will be more uniform in size and shape, and thinning and cultivating will be more easily accomplished.
When thinning plants in the plant bed it should be the aim to remove the centers of the thick bunches, leaving the spaces as uniform as possible.
It is always well, however, to allow for considerable loss of plants, and unless the plants are so thick as to actually crowd, thinning will not be necessary.
A better plan is to make at least a preliminary thinning as early as possible, leaving the plants perhaps twice as thick as they are eventually to stand; and then to pull out every other plant after they reach edible size.
This method of thinning is especially adapted to beets, carrots, lettuce and onions.
No thinning is required if this plan of harvesting is practiced.
Thinning is usually deferred until the plants have become fully established, and the struggle against the striped beetle is nearly over.
Among these tools might be mentioned the onion hoe, the hand weeder, and the thinning or weeding hook.
He had turned back to watch the Sikorsky bank into the thinning fog.
Besides, it was a trifle early to finish thinningthe ranks.
The customers were thinning out as three o'clock closing time neared.
Demo noted, looking in the mirror of a calm pond, his thinning hair, now turning gray.
And then, suddenly, out from the thinning edge there loomed a monster--a monstrosity.
The long lines of stretchers are thinning out now.
Then I looked up--the black mass was thinning and collapsing.
Black fountains of earth and smoke spurted up from the fields and left slowly thinning clouds that hung suspended for a while and then dissolved in air.
But they knew that on the other side of the crest their fire was thinning the successive grey waves of Germans that hurled themselves on our infantry.
During the latter part of our stay near Merviller, the peculiar sickness called "trench fever" ran through the regiment, thinning the ranks of the men fit for active duty and sending many to the hospital for a few days.
The flesh is saffron yellow, thick at the center of the cap, thinning out toward the margin, spongy and almost tasteless.
At ten years of age the first thinning will give a valuable lot of hoop poles.
To the geological effects of the thickening of the earth's crust in the Bay of Bengal, are to be added those of thinning it on the highlands where the Ganges rises.
The foreman dare not look to see what had happened, but he was aware of a sudden thinning in the crowd of spectators.
The contractor reached the grade and threw himself between the rails, and with head overhanging the abyss below stared through the sleepers into the thinning darkness about the feet of his beloved trestle.
He wore old-fashioned rural whiskers, thickest in the throat, thinning toward the jawbone, scant about the lower lip, absent from the upper.
He was apparently about forty years old, to strike a balance between the youth of eyes, mouth, and contour, and the age of deep lines and grayish, thinning hair.
Keep thinning the berries and stopping the laterals as they advance, which, with syringing and giving air, is the principal work to be done.
Attend to the thinning and stopping, and impregnate the fruit blossom when open.
Proceed diligently with thinningthe berries, as they swell rapidly at this season.
These may now want thinning if too thickly set; but the operation must be influenced by the energies of the tree and the action of the roots.
It should be a practice to manage the trees during the summer that nothing more than a slight thinning out should be wanted at the winter pruning.
Give the final thinnings to the latest Grapes; and as they are frequently required for winter use, a good thinning should be given, as crowded bunches and berries will not keep late in the season.
Thinning the fruit is an operation of primary importance.
Attend to stopping the laterals, thinning the young shoots, tying in leaders, &c.
Attend as previously advised to thinning and stopping, set the fruit blossom when open, keep the inside of the frames watered with warm water, and apply some occasionally to the roots.
The first thinning to be performed when the berries are the size of Peas; the second when they begin to be crowded; and the third after the berries are stoned.
Some persons lay in plenty of young wood to select from in winter pruning; but fruit-bearing wood, regularly disposed all over the tree, is best attained by the judicious and successive thinning of useless shoots during their growing season.
Persevere in thinning the bunches, as it is a mistake to leave more on the Vine than it is likely to finish off to perfection.
Give attention to the crops now growing, in thinning out the shoots, stopping, &c.
The thinning out in the number of stars at very remote distances is conspicuous.
The same color used to grain the work will do for overgraining it, or by adding a little black and thinning with spirits of turpentine and japan for inside work, and japan and oil for outside work where it is not to be varnished.
After thinning to the desired consistency, a good brush is the next requisite for applying the color.
Thinning fruit is not practiced as it should be, particularly on the apple; old trees are often too fruitful, so much so as not only to deteriorate the fruit, but to injure the tree itself.
A very rude method has sometimes been pursued in thinning the superabundance of fruit upon apple trees.
When a plant produces fruit in very large quantities, gardeners are in the habit of thinning it early, in order that there may be an increased supply of sap for that which remains.
This subject will be more appropriately discussed in another chapter, to which the reader is referred; while we proceed to the legitimate topic of thinning fruit.
When it is here introduced as a means of thinning the fruit, the recommendation may appear somewhat paradoxical--yet it is not so.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "thinning" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
