thin out

If we do not thin out the whale population, humans will have no more fish to eat.

But the facts will tend to thin out any possible jokes around the water cooler about French IMF chiefs being cursed.

They're out there now, waiting for people to thin out, to fall asleep, for any Western media to disappear.

"It's going to thin out in a couple of years," Grechen Cohen says.

There will always be seedlings to thin out, and these ought not to be thrown away.

The machine gun fire began to thin out as choking men dropped their guns.

It was eleven o'clock, and the crowds on the streets of the great metropolis had begun to thin out.

The sun dipped low in the West; the great crowds hurrying hither and thither were beginning to thin out.

Then Mr. Crow decided that he would thin out a few of Jack Rabbit's things, which seemed to be too thick anyway to do well.