Which preposition to use with thinning

as Occurrences 97%

Work it well with flour and roll out as thin as possible; fold it double and cut into square pieces and fill with minced cooked chicken or veal.

with Occurrences 42%

It is a good deal thinned with water, and sometimes thickened with a little starch, or colored with yolk of egg, or even saffron; but these processes have nothing murderous in them.

than Occurrences 40%

I looked at him narrowly as we rode, and saw that he was thinner than when he had left us, and that his face was browned by much exposure.

in Occurrences 39%

Such a stock-taking, that of the human hearts which beat from half after eight to six behind six floors of counters, would have revealed empty crannies, worn thin in places with the grind of routine.

of Occurrences 26%

He is thin of shank as becomes a scholar.

to Occurrences 25%

I glanced at his face, and saw that it was thin to emaciation.

of Occurrences 22%

At the same time, there tends to be a thinning of the eyebrows, especially of the outer third.

at Occurrences 20%

A layer of white bread cut thin at the bottom of the dish, a layer of apples cut thin, a layer of marrow or suet, currans, raisins, sugar and nutmeg, then the bread, and so on, as above, till the dish is fill'd up; beat four eggs, and mix them with a pint of good milk, a little sugar and nutmeg, and pour it over the top.

from Occurrences 17%

A slice of the thick part should always be accompanied by a smaller piece of the thin from the belly, where lies the fat of the fish.

by Occurrences 13%

Kazan!" At the top of the Sun Rock, Gray Wolfgaunt and thinned by starvationheard the woman's cry, and the call that was in her throat died away in a whine.

for Occurrences 11%

She had noticed his lack of shoes and stockings last night, and that his worn clothes were much too poor and thin for winter in the forest.

on Occurrences 8%

His face was all thin on account of his not being very strong and he never had much food until he got in with us, either.

like Occurrences 6%

It was long and thin like a boy's cane, and of a bright green color like grass, and it had queer shiny eyes.

over Occurrences 5%

What he meant, I gathered, was that, owing to the fact that Gussie had just completed a five years' stretch of blameless seclusion among the newts, all the goofiness which ought to have been spread out thin over those five years and had been bottled up during that period came to the surface on this occasion in a lumpor, if you prefer to put it that way, like a tidal wave.

towards Occurrences 4%

It flattened into the form of a disc, apparently almost circular, of considerable depth or thickness, visibly denser in the centre and thinner towards the rounded edge.

under Occurrences 4%

From the Battery position we followed the road behind Hill 123, up a glorious valley, whose sides were thickly wooded with pines, gradually thinning under the destruction wrought by Austrian shell fire and the Italian military need for timber.

into Occurrences 3%

" The doctor's lips had thinned into a narrow line.

before Occurrences 2%

Lastly, in the wide Lucanian and Bruttian territories the population, which was already very thin before the Hannibalic war, was visited by the whole severity of the war itself and of the penal executions that followed in its train; nor was much done on the part of Rome to revive the agriculture therewith the exception perhaps of Valentia (Vibo, now Monteleone), none of the colonies established there attained real prosperity.

near Occurrences 2%

The ice is thin near there.

down Occurrences 2%

'Paring it out,' and by that we mean thinning down the sole until close on the sensitive structures, can only be advised in the case of suppurating corn, or in cases where doubt exists as to whether pus is present or not.

out Occurrences 2%

J.W. looked for some break in the crowd, some thinning out of its packed bodies, but as far as he could see there was no break, no end.

during Occurrences 2%

The sallowness of her cheeks, the little dip under her cheekbonesshe had grown thinner during the last week or somade her eyes seem larger and more brilliant than ever.

between Occurrences 2%

The partition is very thin between these two rooms, and I was afraid she had heard me ask Arthur for the grey mare and cutter.

around Occurrences 2%

Thus, although the main bloom and honey season is only about three months long, the floral circle, however thin around some of the hot, rainless months, is never completely broken.

with Occurrences 1%

These sauces are made by combining butter and flour and thinning with water or other liquid.

Which preposition to use with  thinning