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Example sentences for "thickened"

Lexicographically close words:
thic; thiccy; thick; thicke; thicken; thickening; thickenings; thickens; thicker; thickest
  1. The mist climbed slowly, putting out the stars, And the earth trembled when the stars were gone; And moving strangely everywhere upon The trembling earth, thickened the watery mist.

  2. Dusk thickened as I came, but I could smell First red wallflower and an early hyacinth bell, And see dim primroses.

  3. The thinner inks, when intended to be used with type or plates, are thickened by adding a little more gum, or some sugar.

  4. A strong decoction of poppies, thickened with crum of bread.

  5. For those papers which are merely coloured on one side the pigments, ground up with gum water or size, or the stains thickened with a little of the same, are applied with a brush, after which the sheets are suspended on a line to dry.

  6. Soak a French roll or sponge-biscuit in raisin, marsala, or sherry wine, surround it by a custard or cream thickened with eggs, and add some spice and ornaments.

  7. All the ordinary liquid colours that do not contain strong acids or alkalies may be used, either alone or thickened with a little gum, for marbling or sprinkling books.

  8. If the patient dies within the week, the follicles on the membrane present a thickened appearance, and are raised above it, whilst they are seen to be filled with a yellowish, cheesy-looking substance.

  9. Fresh wort thickened with oatmeal, and a spoonful of yeast added.

  10. The colours for this purpose should also be thickened with a little gum water.

  11. A species of fine white broth or consommee, thickened with cream, and used as 'white sauce.

  12. The tail is dorsoventrally thickened just in front of the flukes.

  13. The tail is dorsally thickened just in front of the flukes.

  14. She was allowing her voice more scope since the gloom had thickened in the quiet room.

  15. His figure had thickened and spread as he grew older and his hips were disproportionately broad, which gave him a heavy, clumsy look.

  16. III Between our hotel and the main part of the town there yawned a black valley, rather nobly bridged, or viaducted, and beyond it in every direction the chimneys of the many works thickened in the perspectives.

  17. The crowd thickened in English bloom and bulk, which is always fine to see, and bubbled over with the babble of multitudinous voices, crossed with the shouts of the book-makers.

  18. The conflux of his still mighty forces streaming in by three high roads, produced in all the streets of the town a crush which thickened every hour.

  19. Disasters now thickened about the Grand Army.

  20. Lip thickened and slightly incurving; body pink to buff and coarsely shell-tempered; the exterior stick-burnished.

  21. Rim sherd from pan or wide bowl, red ware with greenish-brown lead glaze, the rim thickened and undercut.

  22. Continue until thickened and creamy but not dry.

  23. Remove to platter, add water to make gravy and strain into it the thickened tomato soup.

  24. Add one pint of milk to the rice jelly, and boil all together till the rice resembles thickened milk.

  25. After the cheese has thickened well, leave off stirring; but it must boil quite to a candy, and may take seven hours.

  26. It would be some time until moon-rise, and the shadowy places thickened to blackness.

  27. The shadows thickened and moved a little, then grew still.

  28. Confirmed awa drinkers might be mistaken for lepers, for they are covered with whitish scales, and have inflamed eyes and a leathery skin, for the epidermis is thickened and whitened, and eventually peels off.

  29. The thickened and tuberculated skin of the extremities becomes divided by fissures, and ulcerates, or is corroded under dry sordid scabs, so that the fingers and toes gangrene, and separate, joint after joint.

  30. Often such a tree stands on a sandy bank, and seems in imminent danger of toppling over, but its uprightness secures it against strain, and the roots that it sent down the steep side of the bank have thickened into strong props.

  31. They have thickened margins, the concave upper sides are glaucous, and they are arranged round the branches in whorls of three.

  32. The scales are comparatively few, and their ends are thickened into an irregular four-sided boss, at first ending in a little point.

  33. In selecting the future domicile of the family thus augmented, it will be well to observe that the hive is not one of long standing, in which the combs have become thickened with age.

  34. Its subsequent thickened consistency naturally results from the effect of a lowered temperature; acting in a greater or less degree, according to circumstances, season, &c.

  35. A small dip or inclination upwards is given to the cells, the better to prevent the honey from running out, assisted, moreover, by a small bar or thickened border of wax, at the entrances.

  36. Langerhans, with a pair of lateral fins on the tail and a thickened ectodermic ridge running back on each side from the head to the anterior end of the fin.

  37. The body is divided into eleven segments and the protrusible proboscis apparently into two, and the cuticle of the central segment is thickened to form three plates, one dorsal and two ventrolateral.

  38. When the disease follows scarlet fever, the glomerular structures are mostly affected, the capsules being thickened by fibrous tissue, and the glomerular tuft compressed and atrophied.

  39. Both had the clear spirits raised, in two senses; both thickened voices already thick enough.

  40. We see something of the same kind even in our domestic varieties, as in the thickened stems of the common and swedish turnip.

  41. Upper surface salmon orange or orange red, the edge being smooth and unevenly thickened with nodule-like prominences.

  42. The foreboded storm did not come so soon as had been feared, but the beautiful weather which had lasted so long was lost in a thickened sky and a sullen sea.

  43. Lisconnel at large was neither slow nor circumlocutory in forming and expressing its opinion as touching the nature of the joke, a firm belief in which old Joe resolutely opposed to his troubles as they thickened around him.

  44. Competition has thickened since and proportions have altered--to no small darkening of the air, but the time was surely happier; a single such point de repere not only sufficed but richly heaped up the measure.

  45. All along the road from bridge to town Rebel equipments, guns and cartridge-boxes lay thick, and within the place dead men and horses thickened too.


  46. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "thickened" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    adhesive; clammy; clotted; congealed; curdled; doughy; gelatinous; gluey; glutinous; gumbo; gummy; heavy; jellied; lumpish; lumpy; mucilaginous; pasty; ropy; slimy; starchy; sticky; stodgy; stringy; syrupy; tacky; tenacious; thick; thickened; tough; viscid; viscous