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• This is what thickens it, and gives it the distinct tang.2022 July 18, “Food for Thought: A Short History of Yogurt”, in BC Dairy. From the entry tang
• Martin a drink, but the plot really thickened when the linguist met Martin’s then-assistant Ty Franck.2019 December 22, Annalee Newitz and Cyrus Farivar, “Nick Farmer knows dozens of languages, so he invented one for The Expanse”, in Ars…. From the entry then
• As soon as the cream thickens, pour it over the fyllo sheets.2015, Katy Mantzaridou, New Recipes for the Fasts: Main Meals and Desserts, published 2020, →ISBN. From the entry fyllo
• The ceratohyoid is slender and it is thickened toward both the proximal and distal extremities.2015 August 6, “A New Late Miocene Odobenid (Mammalia: Carnivora) from Hokkaido, Japan Suggests Rapid Diversification of Basal Miocene…. From the entry ceratohyoid
• The maxillary sinus membrane was edematously thickened, but there was no tumor exposure in the sinus.2015 August 2, Masanori Kudoh et al., “Massive Neurilemoma of the Hard Plate in Which Preoperative Diagnosis Was Difficult”, in Case…. From the entry edematously
• A gray fog began to form and thicken, surrounding us in that nauseating bubblegummy smell.2010, Melissa Francis, Love Sucks!, New York, N.Y.: HarperTeen, HarperCollins Publishers, →ISBN, page 130. From the entry bubblegummy
• An additional large triangular flaplike appendage at the rear of the head is thickened along its margin.2009 February 6, Gabriele Kuhl et al., “A Great-Appendage Arthropod with a Radial Mouth from the Lower Devonian Hunsruck Slate, Germany”…. From the entry flaplike
• In the ensuing diastole, these arteries would tend to retract, thus “thinning” the systolically thickened chamber walls.2009, Ares Pasipoularides, Heart's Vortex: Intracardiac Blood Flow Phenomena. From the entry systolically
• For spices, put some ginger powder and, to thicken, cameline, and a moderate amount of salt.2008, Taillevent [pseudonym; Guillaume Tirel], “Gallimaufrey”, in Jim Chevallier, transl., How to Cook a Peacock: Le Viandier, 3rd…. From the entry gallimaufry
• Fondutas are silky cheese concoctions differentiated from fondues because they're thickened with egg yolks.2006, Ellen Brown, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Fondues And Hot Dips. From the entry fonduta
• The septa in the cardinal quadrants are thickened and rhopaloid .2002, Palaeontologia Polonica - Issue 61, page 21. From the entry rhopaloid
• The usual must of the school commons was thickened with the sweat of unclothing.2001, Jamie O’Neill, chapter 4, in At Swim, Two Boys. From the entry gallused
• Sometimes cousinette is thickened with cornmeal, in which case it is called jerbilhou.1997, Paola Gavin, French Vegetarian Cooking, →ISBN. From the entry cousinette
• To thicken that buffer zone Britain joined other powers in biting off larger chunks of China.1997, Anthony Spaeth, "And Here the Twain Shall Meet," Time, Special Issue—Hong Kong 1997. From the entry bite off
• Crème fraîche is a heavy cream, rich in butterfat, thickened naturally by lactic fermentation.1990, Denis Ruffel with Roland Bilheux and Alain Escoffier, translated by Anne Sterling, “[Sauces] Custards”, in The Professional Caterer…. From the entry cheesey
• The palps of her fingers itched, thickened, erected with the need to touch the bent head.1964, K. B. Gilden, Hurry Sundown. From the entry palp
• The cabbage soup is thickened with flour, a lump of meat swimming on the surface of the broth.2017 July 5, Francis R. Nicosia, The Three Romes: Moscow, Constantinople, and Rome, Routledge, →ISBN, page 64. From the entry when shrimps whistle
• On imaging studies, the liver metastases of GCTs are characterized by thickened walls with hypervascularity and nodular excrescences.2015 May 7, Fumihiko Fujita et al., “A recurrent granulosa cell tumor of the ovary 25 years after the initial diagnosis: A case report”…. From the entry hypervascularity
• She craves guatita, a dish of cow tripe in a sauce thickened by peanut butter that she serves over plantains.2009 February 11, Leslie Kaufman, “For Dinner (and Fast), the Taste of Home”, in New York Times. From the entry guatita
• Sullivan had recommended adding a brown gravy to broiled kingfish and stewing junefish in a brown sauce, thickened with flour.2008, B. W. Higman, Jamaican Food: History, Biology, Culture, University of the West Indies Press, →ISBN, page 324. From the entry brown stew
• An orange-blossom-water sabayon is thickened in the microwave (and I will never again make finicky sabayon any other way).2007 June 3, Amanda Hesser, “Cooking”, in New York Times. From the entry sabayon
• Root reduced, with funiform, somewhat thickened secondary roots.2007 January 5, L. I. Malyschev, Flora of Siberia, volume 12, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 92. From the entry funiform
• It’s the clumping nature of the caseins that makes possible most thickened milk products, from yogurt to cheese.2004, Harold McGee, chapter 1, in On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen, Scribner, →ISBN. From the entry casein
• Gradually whisk in remaining oil in a slow, thin stream until sauce is thickened to a mayonnaise consistency.2003, Michael A. Kornfield, “Sauces”, in Table for Two in Paris: Cookbook & Music CD, White Plains, N.Y.: Peter Pauper Press, →ISBN, page 36. From the entry rouille
• Cook the custard over a low heat, stirring constantly until the custard thickens and no cornfloury taste remains.1974 October 17, Delia Smith, “How are your apples and pears?”, in Evening Chronicle, number 30,308, Newcastle upon Tyne, page 4. From the entry cornfloury
• Did you find his drums were thickened and scleroid ?1953, New York Court of Appeals. Records and Briefs, page 415. From the entry scleroid
• Replace 2 and 4 by thickened toruses 2′ and 4′ enclosing 3′ and replace 1 and 5 by the remaining regions.1952, F. B. Fuller, Note on trajectories in a solid torus, in Annals of Mathematics 56(3), p439. From the entry toruses
• Toques high as Queen Mary’s or low as a pillbox, extended and thickened and muffined at the edge.1944, Harper’s Bazaar, page 63. From the entry muffin
• Operative findings included a much thickened infraserratus bursa ( Figure 3 ) with extensive transbursal adhesions extending from the mid-to-upper aspect of the medial scapula.2015 July 26, John G. Skedros, Tanner D. Langston, Colton M. Phippen, “Surgical Correction of Posttraumatic Scapulothoracic Bursitis…. From the entry transbursal
• Gave up smoking leaves ten years ago or more, so most of my leafmould is added to compôte, which it thickens nicely.2003 August 12, Rusty Hinge, “Re: Re: Re: Passiflora Query”, in uk.rec.gardening (Usenet), message-ID <2003081223430771094@zetnet.co.uk>. From the entry compôte
• Like Hollandaise, it’s thickened with eggs.1997 March 12, Joan Drake, “Bearnaise Revisited”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN…. From the entry hollandaise
• Antonio appears and disappears at the top of the ravine as the mist thickens and thins, and I know that he is smiling indulgently.1965, Garden Journal - Volumes 15-18, page 57. From the entry angel's ladder
• At that point of time the skin is macroscopically seen to be slightly thickened and is in course of transition to the pachydermal stage.1931, Acta Pathologica Et Microbiologica Scandinavica. From the entry pachydermal
• The dust rose up in thick clouds, thickened yet more by the sunlight held in them; for the dead air of the hollow was a-dazzle.1927, T. E. Lawrence, chapter 5, in Revolt in the Desert,, London: Jonathan Cape, page 76. From the entry adazzle
• They only knew that the black shadows at the top of the staircase had thickened, had coalesced, had taken a definite, batlike shape.1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html)…. From the entry batlike
• Omens thicken upon us, O Gro.1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 18. From the entry night-raven
• In figure 3 the inner elastic membrane is thickened at places, with denser laminae bounding ectally and entally a finer network of elastic fibrils.1914, The Journal of Experimental Medicine, volume 19, page 142. From the entry entally

Meaning of thicken

1. verb To make thicker (in the sense of wider).
2. verb To make thicker (in the sense of more viscous).
3. verb To become thicker (in the sense of wider).

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How do you use thicken in a sentence?

Thicken is used as a verb. For example: “As we age, the major arteries of our bodies frequently become thickened with plaque, a fatty material with an oatmeal-like consistency that builds up along the inner lining of blood vessels.”

What is a short sentence with thicken?

“to thicken blows”

What does thicken mean?

Thicken means to make thicker (in the sense of wider).