thicken

How To Use thicken In A Sentence

• As soon as this began to thicken, Neb carefully removed it with a wooden spatula; this accelerated the evaporation, and at the same time prevented it from contracting an empyreumatic flavor. The Mysterious Island
• It will thicken as it sits and the liquid drips through. Times, Sunday Times
• The initial lift of the bar targets the lower back and thickens the erectors, the middle part of the lift widens the barn-door lats, and the squeeze and lockout at the top emphasize the upper back.
• Radiographs of the fingertips of rock climbers, for example, show unusual bony spurs and thickened phalanges.
• The near-constant depth of the abyssal sea floor indicates that the lithosphere thickens to roughly 100 km in 70 million years, but then ceases to grow.
• Return this custard to the pan and stir constantly over a very gentle heat until it starts to thicken.
• When in a position allowing of direct examination, the contused portion of the nerve sometimes developed a palpable fusiform thickening, manipulation of which might give rise to formication in the area of distribution -- a favourable prognostic sign. Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre
• In 1935 Cornbleet was the first to describe a thickening of the subcutaneous fat layer of the scalp.
• Alas, the thickening undergrowth has also proven the undoing of one of the less bright avian ground feeders.
• Wheat flour used as a starch thickener needs relatively long cooking to remove its raw taste; and even after cooking it has a noticeable flavour.