Sentences with phrase «to thicken»

When the body is in fight or flight mode, the blood pressure goes up, stress hormones spike and the blood thickens.

«As ISIS - K's losses have mounted, they are using IEDs, bunkers, and tunnels to thicken their defense,» Gen. John W. Nicholson, the commander of US forces in Afghanistan, said in the statement.

The plot thickens.

(I put them in the freezer for a few seconds to thicken the chocolate then refrigerate.)

When I finally returned to my Airbnb (and to wi - fi), I found the answer: Gaozha is a local specialty in Yilan that consists of chicken soup that gets ground up and mixed with potato starch so it thickens as it cools.

It's no secret that America's melting pot is thickening faster than demographers can identify each new ethnic, geographic, and psychographic strand.

What's more, while its levels are partly predetermined by genetics, they can thicken and become more efficient with deliberate use.

Hormonal birth control prevents your body from ovulating, and also prevents your endometrium (uterine lining) from thickening and shedding the way you're used to with normal periods.

The cost would have been $ 0.43 per packet had I not ground up some of the packets to thicken some of the others.

Long hair needs nourishing (ask your stylist for shampoo and conditioner recommendations) and low - key styling with thickening cream.

It thickens overnight and you can spoon it in the morning.

The border would thicken, supply chains would be interrupted and markets would react negatively.

The final step involves creating an emulsion to thicken the dressing and to keep the oil from separating.

Beat cream until it begins to thicken.

Notwithstanding the efforts made after 9 - 11 through the Smart Border Accord, the evidence, both anecdotal and documented, points to a thickening border.

For investors, the plot thickens: Across the globe, «returns across asset classes have been unusually high relative to their levels of volatility,» says Morgan Stanley Global Strategist Andrew Sheets.

Fog is thickening around a missing tycoon's embattled empire.

Thickening the entanglement for Facebook is the fact that Cambridge Analytica, which has ties to high - profile Trump backers, has been under scrutiny by Justice Department investigator Robert Mueller during his investigation into Russian interference in the U.S.

Too late for the tour and the history lesson, too late in the season on this southern plantation, and the ancient, front - line cedar soldiersbacked up by a strong regiment of holliesare not telling what they know.I walk on the old brick, caulked with thin moss, but soon overlaid with a thickening....

So you see how the plot thickens.

The plots dare thicken,,,

The plot thickens.

Rather, the pills delay ovulation, the release of eggs from ovaries that occurs before eggs are fertilized, and some pills also thicken cervical mucus so sperm have trouble swimming.

I'd like to think that I'm a part of this kingdom, even though my stuff and my comforts sometimes thicken the veil.

Hey, CapCap — Poppa Smurf's throbbing Smurfsicle of Love thickens at the thought of your deluded little bottom bent over in supplication before his blue magnificence!

Then, in that tension, the plot thickens, and world view as story is related, binding even in the light of its contradiction the self to the Other, the finite frame to the world's outcome.

It's family blood that thickens and holds and pumps in every life and it's friendship that needs no words, only a raised eyebrow, for an entire conversation to happen because really what is family but this and all of us in this together?

Let it all cook until the glaze thickens, pork is cooked, and carrots are tender.

The plot thickens, however, when the pastoral preacher realizes that other parishioners sitting in the same congregation have their own distinctive sets of ambivalent tendencies and passions.

We create man from a drop of thickened fluid to test him; so We make him hearing, knowing.

The I - Thou relation changes nothing in the primary state of things, but the thickening of distance into I - It changes the whole situation of the other being, making it into one's object.

And the plots thicken,,, «Do you want to play a game?

This apparent contradiction rests on a misconception, namely, that the thickening of the distance is closer to the original situation than the entrance into relation.

While I - It can be defined as the enlarging and thickening of distance, it can also be defined as the objectification of the I - Thou relation which sometimes serves as the way back to it and sometimes obstructs the return.

Even ontologically speaking, however, it might appear that if distance is the presupposition for relationship and I - It is the thickening of distance, then the I - It relation precedes rather than follows the I - Thou.

The I - Thou relation supplies the form for I - It, the form in which the distance is thickened.

Old memories recovered, old portents in ambiguous signs, Where my spewn grass writhes into brown innocence, Lies indifferent to fireflies or the sounds of brash children, Refutation of the ambiguous and thickening darkness.

It was the «and never would be again» that clutched at his heart and thickened his throat and brought tears to his eyes.

Anyway, the plot thickened when, in response to some of the criticism his list was receiving, Shaffer responded with «An Open Letter to Christian Women Blogs.»

The house and the kids hush in the evening thickening and falling and the candles flicker boldly on.

ah so the cult thickens....

As we view this process, the spreading, thickening and irresistible coalescence, can we fail to perceive its eventual outcome?

«7 A local church examining its own plot explores at the same time its inescapable identity with the actions of all groups: their linkages, unfoldings, thickenings, and twists.

Simply thickening their protective membranes and emphasizing doctrinal constraints, or the normative superiority of one deposit of faith over the others, now leads only to an obstruction of informational flow.

The main thing we want to work at here is thickening up these concepts.

They should first learn the other actions of a congregation's plot: the years of local linkage, the unfolding and thickening which have happened only partially through the ministrations of a pastor.

-- that plot's thickening, in stories of both congregations and poor societies, describes a society's labor to acknowledge alienated elements or members, whose activity now repudiates any orderly incorporation?

But I shall keep myself as far as possible at present to the more «scientific» view; and only as the plot thickens in subsequent lectures shall I consider the question of its absolute sufficiency as an explanation of all the facts.

The recent spate of books about church fights and leader burnout 8 examines aspects of the church's thickening plot.

Thickening is inevitable.