Illeana allowed herself to be driven back, keeping in his range, stepping away till she felt the sand beneath her feet thin somewhat.

Soon the surrounding wood began to thin somewhat, and they came to a dell with huge boulders strewn amongst the standing trees like miniature mountains.

Mrs. Felix Montgomery possessed a thin somewhat shrill, voice, which she was unable to conceal, and, looking attentively at her, Mrs. Flagg penetrated her disguise.

The smoke in the room thinned somewhat, and the daylight broadened and deepened.

Dick watched until the first darkness thinned somewhat, and the stars came out.

After a while the fall of snow thinned somewhat, but the wind did not decrease.

The forest had thinned somewhat as she approached it.

Ahead, the fog had thinned somewhat, and the park wall was visible through rags of mist.

The trees thinned somewhat as we climbed, until finally I was afforded a partial view of the sky.

The crowd in the room thinned somewhat as others went to the remaining rooms, where the same thing happened.

At this time the fog was thinning somewhat, and the low sun seemed likely to break through it now and then.

The fog thinned somewhat, and a tug and scow whirled past down the river on the rapidly flowing tide, disappearing again into the mist.

Robert Stephan, assistant secretary of homeland security for infrastructure protection, said the crowd of companies scrambling for a stake in the market had thinned somewhat.