Murchison, is infinitely the largest and most persistent member of the Wenlock formation, for the limestone often thins out and disappears.
Just in front, however, of the point where the ureter ends the true kidney substance rapidly thins out, and its place is taken by a peculiar tissue formed of a trabecular work filled with cells, which I shall in future call lymphatic tissue.
The median longitudinal ventral muscle here gradually thins out and comes to an end, while the commissures pass immediately below the wall of the pharynx (Pl.
It is provided with a superficial coating of longitudinal muscular fibres, which thins out where it passes over the sack, along which it only extends for a short distance.
While beehives wake and whirr, And rabbit thins his fur, 20 In living spring that sets the world astir.
Here all starve together, All dwarfed and poor; Here Death's hand knocketh At door after door, 30 He thins the dancers From the festal floor.
There's the warrior who thins out his fellow-creatures to gratify his own personal inclinations and ambitions; and there's the warrior who is forced to thin them out by the duty of defending his country against the former kind of warrior.
The second bed B is about fifteen feet in thickness, but towards both extremities of the cliff (not included in the diagram) it either thins out and dies away, or passes insensibly into an overlying bed of gravel.
When we thus see that in certain directions the whole group of deposits thins out, and that its mineral characters change within moderate distances; does it not become clear that the whole group of deposits was a local one?
Though within a few miles the same bed gradually passes from clay into sand, or thins out and disappears, yet the group of strata to which it belongs does not do so; but maintains in remote regions the same relations to other groups.
A glacier never, in a large sense, thins out at all as it expires.
His idea, that the glacier is deep above and thins out below, is a curious instance of the misconception of glacier nature, from which all that Forbes has done cannot yet quite clear the public mind, nor even the geological mind.
It extends slightly into the prosomatic region, and thins down to a point there, runs along the length of the animal and finally thins down to a point at the caudal end.
The first or both the thick stems may be drawn up and the thins curved over (see V, 2).
The clay formed in this way is described as attaining a considerable thickness near the centre of the old lake, but it thins off towards the sides.
In short, it thickens out upon the low-grounds, and thins off upon the steeper slopes, while it attains its greatest thickness and forms the most continuous sheets in the country that lies south of the great lakes.
The rest of the head is distended into a huge globe and the chitinous leathery cuticle of the mooncalf herds thins out to a mere membrane, through which the pulsating brain movements are distinctly visible.
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.
In Which the Fog Thins and the Crew of the "Spot Cash" Fall Foul of a Dark Plot 256 XXXI.
It rests on an irregular surface of chalk, occasionally running down into pipes, and thins out towards the sides, ceasing altogether rather more than half way down the hill.
But the loess is thickest near the ice margin and thins toward the southwest and in other directions, whereas if its source were the southwestern desert, its maximum thickness would probably be near the margin of the desert.
The loess is thickest near the margin of the Iowan till sheet and thins progressively both north and south.
Do not thin the fruit on my trees; it thins itself.
Thins apples on trees when the size of marbles, and believes it pays.
He thins the fruit as soon as he sees that it is too thick.
He prunes his trees with a knife and shears, and thins out the tops to let the sun in, and thinks it pays, and is beneficial.
Toward the sea the junglethins and in a palm-dotted clearing, walled in with flowering stephanosis and tiare, are the brown thatched houses of the Chief.
The highest bed thins off towards the south-west, losing 15 feet in thickness in the course of a mile.
This Egyptian bush extends from the Congo mouth to Banza Nokki, our landing-place; it grows thickest about Porto da Lenha, and it thins out above and below: I afterwards observed it in the sweet water marshes of Syria and the Brazils.
It is proportionately larger than in the Frog; and the roof eventually thins out so as to be formed of a single row of small cells.
Thees yer bellyache what thins me every summer an' wears a fellow out, don't come from nothing but tearing about then.
I often wonder what pictures are flitting through his mind beneath (as I imagine) the place where the thick grizzled hair thins to the red forehead.
Toward other edges of Fossil Basin, the Angelo Member thins and pinches out into the Wasatch Formation.
The tongue thins and disappears to the south, that is, basinward.
The Sandstone Tongue thins and pinches out to the north and is not present within the monument.
There are over a thousand acres of woods alone, and, though he thins and forests like a surgeon, he won't let a tree be chopped without his permission.
He cannot beat me, and old bones are tender when the round flesh thins to strings.
And when the radishes are pulled, ready for market, that thins the carrots, which come along later.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "thins" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
