thickening

Example Sentences

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"Symptoms like thickening and laxity of the skin, so-called 'elephant skin', extreme shedding and sharply defined areas of redness next to normal skin."

From BBC

Determined to go further north, Elisha ordered the crew to pull the ship along through the thickening slush.

From Literature

My sympathy for Opal was fading with the thickening of her skull.

From Literature

I noticed the hem was coming undone in a corner of it, trailing a thread on the ground as she dragged a wooden paddle through the thickening akpl. in the cauldron.

From Literature

In the distance, Owen thought he saw Miss Piggy, the old graffitied cargo plane wreck, but it was hard to tell through the thickening snow.

From Literature