Sentence examples for thickening around from inspiring English sources

A woman burns trash on the riverbank, the smoke thickening around her like a cape.

10 26: The friction of the Martian air, thickening around the lander, fires the shell to nearly three thousand degrees.

He was a big guy, tall and muscular with the first signs of middle-aged thickening around his middle.

Under the catchy headline "David Cameron really needs to do something about his waistline", the said correspondent disapproves of the PM's "thickening around the midriff".

As we stood in the café outside the conference hall, the babel of languages thickening around us, I asked whether he agreed with the vision put forth by older party members.

When I look at her, fizzing with health and vitality, no longer a toddler but a little girl, proudly twisting her fingers around the curls thickening around her ears, I have to catch my breath.

The novels are based on old legends that thickened around this beautiful, mysterious spot.

Sigur Ros The mists have thickened around the songs on "Valtari," the first Sigur Ros album since 2008.

Cobwebs thickened around the fat mirrors of the dark blue Pajero 4x4 Noye used to drive at reckless speeds around Atlanterra.

As night thickens around Marina Boulevard on a murky San Francisco evening, one thing is crystal-clear: the future is not what it used to be.

As the smoke thickened around them, he said, a young woman threw a wet towel to Ms. Isaac, telling her to breathe.