thicken

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

When stirred through at the end, it thickens the tomato juices into something cohesive — salty, tangy, faintly luxurious.

From Salon

Coastal areas could see marine layer low clouds return as early as Friday night and thicken on Saturday night.

From Los Angeles Times

We take off side by side, but as soon as we start running uphill, the air seems to thicken and I can barely suck it in.

From Literature

What’s different now is that artificial intelligence has thickened the plot.

From Barron's