dwindle

How To Use dwindle In A Sentence

• Lobefins today have dwindled to the lungfishes and the coelacanths ‘dwindled’ as ‘fish’, that is, but mightily expanded on land: we land vertebrates are aberrant lungfish. THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH
• the antique fear that days would dwindle away to complete darkness
• But as oil supplies dwindle it may have finally become the fuel of the future. Times, Sunday Times
• The light outside had dwindled away to almost nothing, and silent soldiers on padded feet were lighting braziers and turning up gas lamps.
• Supplies of some fast-selling vehicles including the Prius, the Nissan Rogue and Subaru Forester already are beginning to dwindle. Dealers Shift Gears as Inventories of Made-in-Japan Cars Run Low
• Their vast fortune has dwindled away.
• Required to spend more time with Matilda, Agnes finds that her encounters with the curate dwindle and almost cease altogether.
• Given that the DA will see his chances for re-election dwindle if he/she is perceived to be soft on a multiple felony slam-dunk conviction case against a spoiled, arrogant, crime-committing, room-temperature-IQ behemoth, I suspect the moron in question (e.g., the football player), after considerable wheeling and dealing by his zealous defense attorney -- who is just doing his job, will likely receive felony deferred adjudication from the appropriate court. No Prison for Plaxico?
• After fifteen more attacks, that hope had dwindled to a vague, undefined optimism.
• The day's ride had exhausted her already dwindled energy, and the night had truly enervated her.