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Meanings of get thinner in English

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Usage of get thinner in English
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I watched him get weaker, watched him stagger, watched him get thinner!
Fireflies
2
The chocolate seems to get thinner and taste sicklier each year.
The Irish Times
3
It's hard work for two legs, but I don't get thinner.
The fellowship of the ring
4
My brain is like a universe whose gases get thinner and thinner at the edges.
Water for elephants
5
I get thinner and thinner-don'tI, Miss Emily?
"I Say No"
6
And as HDTVs get thinner and thinner, the Wireless HD standard can set them free, he says.
Wired
7
He has to get thinner and thinner.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 158, March 17, 1920
8
I'm going to try to get thinner, and perhaps some day I can make the team, too.
Grace Harlowe's First Year at Overton College
9
Your blood does get thinner down here.
A killing night
10
The way they grew old was to get thinner and thinner till there was danger of their vanishing.
The Louisa Alcott Reader: a Supplementary Reader for the Fourth ...
11
Gabriel's features seemed to get thinner.
Far from the Madding Crowd
12
The branches get thinner, weaker.
Insurgent
13
Can I sit here and look on, while you get thinner day by day, and perish with the cold?
Pelle the Conqueror — Volume 03
14
Mobiles and cameras seem to get thinner and more powerful every day, and the same is true of pocket camcorders.
The Irish Times
15
Your victuals don't do you no good, Dick; you get thinner and thinner, and folks will think as I starve you.
Among Malay Pirates : a Tale of Adventure and Peril
16
Any person who is as fat as I was and who wants to get thinner is at liberty to follow my method.
The Fun of Getting Thin: How to Be Happy and Reduce the Waist Li...
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