Sentence examples for thin the herd from inspiring English sources

"It'll definitely thin the herd".

He said the village should have held a public hearing before asking the state to thin the herd.

The program, extended last week with a $2 billion cash injection, is bound to thin the herd.

Every one of them wants to thin the herd, to cut it down, eventually, to one candidate.

White Buffalo, a company based in Hamden, Conn., was paid $150,000 to thin the herd in Princeton Township this year.

In my area, professional marksmen are getting ready to shoot deer -- real ones -- to thin the herd, and in the local papers letter-writers pro and con have been going nuts.

The 65 hunters, chosen from among 280 applicants, will thin the herds from early next month until year's end.

But in espousing hunting to thin the herds, these conservationists are running up against animal rights advocates — often their allies on other issues — who feel that killing deer is morally offensive and slaying them with arrows especially misguided.

The horses, tens of thousands of them, are at the center of a passionate, politicized dispute playing out in court, in Congress and even within tribes across the West about whether federal authorities should sanction their slaughtering to thin the herds.

"We call that thinning the herd".

He added, "That's what I call thinning the herd".