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
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  • 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.
  • As he strummed the song, with its hushed chorus that dwindles into a whisper by the end, the crowd knew it was one of those special cliched moments.
  • At length these streets becoming more straggling yet, dwindled and dwindled away, until there were only small garden patches bordering the road, with many a summer house innocent of paint and built of old timber or some fragments of a boat, green as the tough cabbage – stalks that grew about it, and grottoed at the seams with toad – stools and tight – sticking snails. The Old Curiosity Shop
  • The community has dwindled to a tenth of its former size in the last two years.
  • They make their student-years but a pretext for a life of rough debauchery, from which they issue with a bought diploma; and, in many cases, satiated and disgusted with their own lives, they dwindle down into the timeserving reactionaries, the worst enemies of free development, because they themselves have abused in youth the little liberty they enjoyed. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 41, March, 1861
  • Membership of the club had dwindled away to nothing.
  • Vampyre umbral skulker until sunlight dwindles then bat becomes nocturnal prince throat ravager, claret quaffer, night wraith fearless charlatan, blood drunkard but at dawn's flushing kiss he yields to light Archive 2006-08-01
  • A flat which had seemed to offer stimulus, satisfaction, retreat and self-sufficiency dwindled overnight into just somewhere to live.
  • I’ve seen many a good title bogged down with comments like: ‘it’s not real if it’s not from Japan’ Perhaps if some authors were quick on the trigger to shoot down that nonsense, immature reviewers might dwindle away…but alas, this is asking for trouble, because even those truly critical of your work will avoiding saying so for fear Rice-Style retribution. Deliver Me From Temptation, Temptation Being Amazon « Whatever
  • Love fades and dwindles in the hurly-burly of life.
  • Their vast fortune has dwindled away.
  • Only in the fifth century did Roman influence in Britain gradually dwindle. Smithsonian Mag
  • The price will probably keep going up as supply slowly dwindles.
  • Conversation dwindled, and time seemed to congeal around the card game. THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
  • In recent decades, the hatred and mistrust felt by Southerners towards the Republican Party has dwindled, which is why the “Red states” tend to be in the South as well as the middle part of the country. Under Scrutiny « We Don't Count Your Own Visits To Your Blog
  • Those that adapt and offer good products will thrive from the increased exposure and ancillary revenue streams (even if they’re receiving less from traditional advertising); those that don’t, will cry foul and dwindle away. Is Web Video Really Hurting TV? - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com
  • She explained that remembrance of the Holocaust is important because the number of survivors are starting to dwindle, and with them awareness can also disappear.
  • Collections also dwindle when borrowed plates are not returned.
  • Property experts said that buyer interest had dwindled amid tough loan requirements and worries about the economy. Times, Sunday Times
  • At the early meetings there was great interest and enthusiasm, but that dwindled.
  • Shark numbers have dwindled as a result of hunting.
  • Since news from the war seems to have dwindled to a trickle, it is an interesting way of keeping track of our troops - and a very personal one too.
  • The factory's workforce has dwindled from over 4,000 to a few hundred.
  • The contorted moonlet dropped away, dwindled, vanished. I Don’t Understand ?
  • The Antaean treatment is needful for terrestrials, unless they would dwindle. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 59, September, 1862
  • Over time electricity will dwindle and cease to be available to be harvested through any means.
  • And as seemingly indeterminable day, dwindled to a close, Work Camp 10760 L
  • The condors have dwindled to an estimated sixty in number .
  • That shout had a different tone to it; towards the end of his name, her voice seemed to dwindle, fading.
  • The stream has dwindled to a trickle.
  • Towns whose population has since dwindled to negligible still have their cenotaph or war memorial, as do schools and churches.
  • Kim, who claimed Olympic gold with world record scores, saw her hopes of defending her world title dwindle as she blamed foot problems for placing over ten points behind US teenager Mirai Nagasu who leads going into Saturday's free skating final. Raw Story
  • Her savings has dwindled away over the years as the result of her extravagance.
  • The harsh screaming coming from Mrs. Ling’s apartment had dwindled to pleas for help in English, peppered with swearing in Mandarin. A Dirty Job HTML
  • No wide secession to Rome, however, followed the development of this seventeenth-century school, though it played a large part in the nonjuror schism, and with the decay of that schism and under the latitudinarian tendencies of the eighteenth century it greatly dwindled. The Map of Life Conduct and Character
  • That investment programme is about to dwindle further. Times, Sunday Times
  • On the eve of the 1984 strike, however, the number of deep coal miners in Scotland had dwindled away to barely 14,000-a figure which itself shrivelled to less than 3,000 in the hard years after the conflict.
  • Now, if public support dwindles with viewership, PBS could slowly starve.
  • The bread has dwindled by now to crumbs and rusks.
  • And when this anthem of jealous antiphonies and uneven rhythms had dwindled quite away and fainted in one last solitary note of silver, there started somewhere another sequence; and this, almost at its last stroke, was interrupted by yet another, which went on to tell the hour of noon in its own way, quite slowly and significantly, as though none knew it. Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story
  • As sea trade dwindled to a trickle, so industry imploded. HISTORY PLAY: The Lives and After-life of Christopher Marlowe
  • The lifecycle of a Saturday morning cartoon for me now is that I ask my TiVo to capture all the episodes of some show that I'm already familiar with, then watch as the number of episodes captured per week dwindles as the networks start to phase out the show, until it disappears altogether for a year, reappearing then in rerun. Boing Boing: September 8, 2002 - September 14, 2002 Archives
  • I watched the hippies become commodified and turned into hip capitalists — and the punks, you just watched them kind of dwindle away. Boing Boing
  • This hamadryad was destined in the outcome to dwindle into a village housewife, she would have taken a lively interest in the number of eggs the hens were laying, she would even have assured her children, precisely in the way her father spoke of John Hughes, that young people ordinarily have foolish fancies which their rational elders agree to disregard. The Certain Hour
  • I shouted in a state of panic as my time left to get ready dwindled down to only 13 minutes.
  • Discussions about texts dwindled into silence; discussions about moms threatened to turn into full-blown therapy sessions.
  • Glossary: hail = whole fient = hardly straucht = straight dwine = dwindle forfochten = worn out abrede = spread tae gar = to make warldis = all the world remeid = relief mirk = darkness thir = these dule = misery leal = loyal soothfu = truthful Oh Wee White Rose of Scotland
  • As government funding dwindles and the competition for charitable donations heats up, several facilities have turned to corporations and exchanged naming rights for cash.
  • Though she was many miles away, he felt her aura gradually dim and dwindle until it faded completely away…
  • believe how the massive trunk dwindles to the apparent size of a licorice stick before it gets to the ground. A chunk breaks off the unobtanium boulder as they climb over it... and it floats upwards.
  • Numbers have dwindled to fewer than 6,000. Times, Sunday Times
  • By the time she left the bathroom, it was almost 7 pm. And the rain outside had dwindled to a small shower, or even a sprinkle, at most.
  • Since its viewership has dwindled, ABC had to depend on something other than ABC to get the word out on its new shows.
  • One disillusioned teacher in the west of Scotland has seen his Sunday morning athletics classes dwindle.
  • Unfortunately, this kind of habitat has grown less common, and the twite population has dwindled in recent years. Times, Sunday Times
  • Crucially for Mr. Caramadre, the plans also come with a guaranteed death benefit, in which the insurer generally agrees to repay at least the amount invested after the "annuitant" dies, even if markets have cratered and the invested sums have dwindled. Judge Lets Claims Stand in Annuity Case
  • Her savings dwindled down
  • Glossary: hail = whole fient = hardly straucht = straight dwine = dwindle forfochten = worn out abrede = spread tae gar = to make warldis = all the world remeid = relief mirk = darkness thir = these dule = misery leal = loyal soothfu = truthful Oh Wee White Rose of Scotland
  • With increasing of water depth, the number of plantlet and inflorescence gradually dwindles.
  • Globally, UBS recently merged its equity and debt capital desks, a move that better enables bankers there to find solutions for companies whose refinancing options have dwindled.
  • Over the years, the number of national champs there dwindled as more and more people in the rest of the country joined in the search for big trees.
  • As to having "had no political incentives" for whatever support he imagines he gave to Israel, how about the incentive of not being run out of office in 2004 had he not done so, and the loss of the tiny percentage of support by Americans that he'd managed to hang on to as his endless second term dwindled to national shame and shared international nightmare. The BRAD BLOG
  • The aftmost portion of Titan’s secondary hull, at the bottom of the central viewer, disgorged a small bright object that quickly dwindled in size until it was lost in the radiant taffy pull of local geomagnetic forces. Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Seize the Fire
  • Numbers dwindled after the introduction of mink and loss of habitat. Times, Sunday Times
  • As their numbers dwindle, it becomes more whodunnit than action flick. Times, Sunday Times
  • As government funding dwindles and the competition for charitable donations heats up, several facilities have turned to corporations and exchanged naming rights for cash.
  • As their numbers dwindle, it becomes more whodunnit than action flick. Times, Sunday Times
  • The 'six hundred and twenty thousand tons of water each minute' nearly ceased to flow, and dwindled away into the appearance of a mere milldam. Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889
  • They would make power firms increase gas and electricity storage so supplies do not dwindle in a crisis. The Sun
  • However, the numbers have dwindled to less than a quarter what they once were.
  • As the pleasures of gardening outside begin to dwindle, we can still get our fingers in the soil and achieve some satisfaction by repotting our favourite container-grown plants.
  • Faint noises from outside dwindled into the peaceful black chasm of sleep.
  • As her 63 percent lead dwindles to a still respectable 56 or 55 percent next summer, she and her campaign advisers may suddenly feel the need to do something.
  • A few children found themselves in a kind of involuntary competition, when strangers would come to look the children over and leave with the lucky ones, while the numbers of those left unselected gradually dwindled.
  • The store was besieged with inquiries about it and the short supply we had dwindled and disappeared.
  • It woint oft he did that sooart o 'thing, but when he did he carried it on for a wick or a fortnit, an' altho 'his father had left a nice little farm for him an' his mother, yet it sooin dwindled to nowt, for what wi 'neglectin his wark, an' spendin a bit o 'brass, it wor like a cannel lit at booath ends, it sooin swealed up. Yorksher Puddin' A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the Pen of John Hartley
  • When the momentum dwindled Simpson began to falter.
  • Conversation dwindled, and time seemed to congeal around the card game. THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
  • His lordship is meekly going to dine at an eightpenny ordinary, his giants in pawn, his men in armor dwindled to “one poor knight,” his carriage to be sold, his stalwart aldermen vanished, his sheriffs, alas! and alas! in gaol! George Cruikshank
  • Then there swung a school of what we call the palmy days of old comedy, and in the '40's it dwindled to nothing, and England and America waited until the early Shenandoah Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911
  • Thus its wealth remained long unravished, though its people began to dwindle. The Lord of the Rings
  • The flood of offers of help had dwindled to a mere trickle.
  • \ "Beekeepers all around the world are noticing their bees dwindle and disappear, \" says the professor of apiculture and social insects. Craig and Marc Kielburger: To Bee or Not To Bee
  • In the pentadactyl plantigrade foot of the early mammals, the first digit, being the shortest, was the first to leave the ground, to dwindle, and finally to disappear. Darwin, and After Darwin (Vol. 1 and 3, of 3) An Exposition of the Darwinian Theory and a Discussion of Post-Darwinian Questions
  • These atrocities are despoiling our people and our paradise as hope dwindles.
  • Numbers have certainly dwindled since their heyday in the 1980s. Times, Sunday Times
  •  As you watch, he becomes ever smaller, less defined, finally a little fishlike creature, then a blob, and finally a few cells that dwindle on the floor and disappear. Who Do You Say I Am
  • Rental accommodation in the central city has almost dwindled to zero.
  • When man's head grizzles and his money dwindles, * Arabian nights. English
  • Afterwards he spent time among those friends who could tolerate his irascibility, the number of whom dwindled as a result of his sometimes outrageous behavior. William hazlitt | the man of letters « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground
  • The community has dwindled to a tenth of its former size in the last two years.
  • Failing health dwindles ambition.
  • Finally the firing dwindled; the charge had been repulsed.
  • Numbers dwindled after the introduction of mink and loss of habitat. Times, Sunday Times
  • At Friday's pregame walkthrough, the crowd had dwindled from more than 500 at the beginning of the week to less than 15.
  • Luxembourg has also traditionally been the home of a great number of convents and religious orders, a number that has dwindled since the last century.
  • Now the hop trade has dwindled and chestnuts are being replaced by conifers. A Guide to Britain's Conservation Heritage
  • Aggressive linguistic subversiveness, which used to be his hallmark, has dwindled into charm; sheer amazement has become indistinct bemusement.
  • The flood of offers of help had dwindled to a mere trickle.
  • As the teams dwindle in size, they will merge into one new tribe name Barramundi.
  • An arrowlike shape, ashine in the light of the distant sun, glided from orbit and dwindled into heaven. Genesis
  • The boy had dwindled to a skeleton, and the skin lay on his face in crimpled folds, like a mask of black crape. Among the Pines or, South in Secession Time
  • The premiums continue to rise each year while the amount of coverage seems to dwindle.
  • The community has dwindled to a tenth of its former size in the last two years.
  • Membership of the club has dwindled from 70 to 20.
  • The find followed the near-miraculous discovery on Tuesday of a 14-day-old baby who spent 46 hours under rubble, but hopes of finding more survivors are beginning to dwindle. Questions Mount as Turkish Toll Rises
  • I saw the moon, only as a swaying trail of palish fire, that varied from a mere line of light to a nebulous path, and then dwindled again, disappearing periodically. The House on the Borderland
  • At length these streets becoming more straggling yet, dwindled and dwindled away, until there were only small garden patches bordering the road, with many a summer house innocent of paint and built of old timber or some fragments of a boat, green as the tough cabbage-stalks that grew about it, and grottoed at the seams with toad-stools and tight-sticking snails. The Old Curiosity Shop
  • In 2001, the endowment would have dwindled to only $28.9 million, below the $35 million level the museum is required to maintain under the terms of a letter of credit collateralizing the bonds for the expansion.
  • The muscles of the spiritual athlete pant for such exertion; and without it, they would dwindle into trepid imbecility. Probabilities : An aid to Faith
  • The community has dwindled to a tenth of its former size in the last two years.
  • Shark numbers have dwindled as a result of hunting.
  • Yet today the movement for independence there has dwindled to little more than background noise. Times, Sunday Times
  • Or you may take it the other way about, and start from the organisation of fishes; opercular bones are of no use to air-breathing animals, so they dwindle away, and are pressed into the service of the ear, although they are of little use in hearing (p. 46). Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology
  • We have very high demand but supply has dwindled. Times, Sunday Times
  • After all, the rampant power supply failures of the 2004 models seemed to kind of dwindle in my opinion, so perhaps they fixed this too ... Discussions: Message List - root
  • As rations dwindled, she sustained herself by hymning the consolations of good food.
  • The Escort accelerated towards Glasgow, and as the midnight traffic dwindled, the hitcher knew the game was up.
  • The temples and pavilions dwindled into picturesque ruins while smart new Victorian gardens acquired summer houses and croquet lawns. Times, Sunday Times
  • Though the amount of press it has seen has dwindled as of late, the show is still as exciting as ever.
  • Scenes were reshot, money ran out, and interest from others dwindled.
  • As we approach the decade mark next month, the readership around here at GitM continues to dwindle, which is primarily my fault for not updating as much as I'd like. Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now
  • At the early meetings there was great interest and enthusiasm, but that dwindled.
  • Beekeepers all around the world are noticing their bees dwindle and disappear," says the professor of apiculture and social insects. Craig and Marc Kielburger: To Bee or Not To Bee
  • The crowd around the medical supplies dwindled again as I made my stand.
  • Faint noises from outside dwindled into the peaceful black chasm of sleep.
  • The last grey hour between twilight and darkness came, when squirrels vanished into their nests, and birds dwindled into silence, while bats, dormice and fallow deer emerged from their daytime shelter.
  • I'm ashamed to admit that my hunger to raise wonderful children has dwindled as well--all I am left with is a compulsion to satiate myself with material goods, comfort food, and short-term stimulation. Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: Excerpt: 10 Conversations You Need to Have With Yourself: A Powerful Plan for Spiritual Growth and Self-Improvement
  • While we never felt cheated in any way, it was slightly alarming how quickly our money supply dwindled.
  • Hope your ice plant lives, ours kind of dwindled this year, too wet. Finial Fun In The Knot Garden « Fairegarden
  • The snake dwindled in size.
  • As communities dwindled and merged, Shaker villages were gradually sold off.
  • A small township, stretched along the bank of the great river, drifted by and dwindled into the distance. THE LAST OF THE GENTLEMEN ADVENTURERS: Coming of Age in the Arctic
  • _Dip and lift, dip and lift_, till sky and earth and river were blotted out, and consciousness dwindled to a thin line, -- a streak of foam, fringed on the one hand with sneering rock, on the other with snarling water. A Daughter of the Snows
  • In one of only two conversations in the entire film, a pensive, well dressed man warns the tourist that the theatre is haunted by ghosts, a beautiful, sad description of the dwindled audience.
  • Even in places where there is some greenery, the Museum or say, Kanakakkunnu, the common grouse voiced by regulars is that the number of breeze and shade-giving trees has dwindled over the years.
  • They lost comrades-in-arms by the score during the four-year-conflict and the number of survivors has dwindled with every passing anniversary.
  • The community has dwindled to a tenth of its former size in the last two years.
  • In the hearth, the fire had dwindled to a few remaining embers - topaz coals, weakly sputtering thin ribbons of smoke up the chimney.
  • San Sebastián's population dwindled from a high of several thousand in the nineteenth century to just 600 today. Tired of Puerto Vallarta? Try the mountains: the road to San Sebastián
  • My bravado from earlier dwindled as he nodded, smiled again, and continued stacking the shelves.
  • His reputation dwindled greatly.
  • Their food supply dwindled when they were lost in the woods.
  • Numbers have dwindled to fewer than 6,000. Times, Sunday Times
  • Required to spend more time with Matilda, Agnes finds that her encounters with the curate dwindle and almost cease altogether.
  • But as oil supplies dwindle it may have finally become the fuel of the future. Times, Sunday Times
  • As sea trade dwindled to a trickle, so industry imploded. HISTORY PLAY: The Lives and After-life of Christopher Marlowe
  • Shark numbers have dwindled as a result of hunting.
  • Her strength dwindled as four men grasped hold of her and dragged her away.
  • As audiences dwindled, Apollo's pledge to keep the cinema open until a buyer could be found died with the box office takings.
  • Now the hop trade has dwindled and chestnuts are being replaced by conifers. A Guide to Britain's Conservation Heritage
  • As the world's oil resources continue to dwindle, the competition to find an alternative fuel increases in intensity.
  • And as reserves dwindle, the economics get tighter. Times, Sunday Times
  • But the boom in major breakthroughs in the science of aerodynamics had dwindled.
  • The music dwindles until nothing is left but a drumbeat out of the big-band era.
  • Our uranium reserves will sustain us for hundreds of years as carbon fuels dwindle.
  • With the price of toothfish so attractive, many fishermen have been lured into the business and, within the past decade, known ocean stocks have dwindled to the point of alarm.
  • And as reserves dwindle, the economics get tighter. Times, Sunday Times
  • In the latter instances, all afflux of nutriment and heat being prevented by the ligature, we see the testes and large fleshy tumours dwindle, die, and finally fall off. On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals
  • There is nothing wrong with the people - it is the investment which has gradually dwindled.
  • We have very high demand but supply has dwindled. Times, Sunday Times
  • Slim and sleek, faintly ashine by their light, it dwindled fast to his vision, accelerating. Starfarers
  • The winding road led me up the flanks of stony hills, terraced everywhere for almond-trees; but after two or three hours of ascent the almonds dwindled away, and the country became an absolute desert of brashy hills, showing little asperity of outline, but mournful and solemn by their wastefulness and abandonment to a degree that makes the traveller ask himself if he is really in Europe, or has been transported by magic to the most arid steppes of Asia. Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine
  • Being in daily touch with a lot of abattoirs, I feel that the supplies of cattle are starting to dwindle and that demand will improve ere long.
  • In the final week that number dwindled to five. Times, Sunday Times
  • In the past two years, the supply of clergy coming out of Canadian seminaries has dwindled to a trickle.
  • It will not be long before the enemy must retreat into a continuous perimeter, as his manpower dwindles to the point where a mobile defense is no longer viable.
  • Kim, who claimed Olympic gold with world record scores, blamed foot problems as she saw her hopes of defending her world title dwindle as she struggles over ten points behind Nagasu. Canada.com Top Stories
  • Ratnagiri boasts an annual catch of 1,25,000 tonnes of a variety of fish, including pomfret, surmai (kingfish), bangda (Indian mackerel) and rawas (Indian salmon), but with the project, those numbers could dwindle significantly. India's Field Of Nuclear Fissures
  • It woint oft he did that sooart o 'thing, but when he did he carried it on for a wick or a fortnit, an' altho 'his father had left a nice little farm for him an' his mother, yet it sooin dwindled to nowt, for what wi 'neglectin his wark, an' spendin a bit o 'brass, it wor like a cannel lit at booath ends, it sooin swealed up. Yorksher Puddin' A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the Pen of John Hartley
  • K., and the numbers is expected to dwindle as many are taken over, merge or convert to banks.
  • It's ironic that the South American gaucho would travel all the way to Idaho to pursue the cowboy myth, since the number of real cowboys in the American West has dwindled to almost nothing.
  • They include some of the country's rarest and least protected species, like the American wolverine, whose ranks have dwindled to fewer than 500 in the lower 48 states, and the Pacific walrus, which is rapidly losing the sea ice it needs to survive. Kieran Suckling: 'Extinction Rider' Would Unravel Years of Work Protecting Rare Species
  • Roth has long been pessimistic about the survival of the novel in a gaudy, short-attention-span culture, but his latest prophesy is one of his bleakest yet, predicting that the form will dwindle to a “cultic” minority enthusiasm within 25 years. Philip Roth gives novel a quarter of a century
  • In the final week that number dwindled to five. Times, Sunday Times
  • Their vast fortune has dwindled away.
  • As a result, their confidence in the vehicle dwindled.
  • During his lifetime, the distinctive characteristics of his vocation had begun to dwindle.
  • The smile on Tory's face dwindled, and he nodded as he ran a hand through his softly waved blonde hair.
  • Scottish wildcats have dwindled in recent years due to loss of habitat and cross-breeding with domestic cats. The Sun
  • Peaks, valleys, and landmarks dwindle as we move forward and then reappear in a new perspective as our path winds on. American Grace
  • By 2015 circulation had dwindled to 15,000 and turning it into a freesheet only staved off the inevitable. Times, Sunday Times
  • Buxom for her age, like so many pubescent children she seemed to have siphoned off vital bulk from her parents and left them to dwindle, wizen.
  • Without her earnings, and with the addition of Charlotte, money seemed to have dwindled to nothing.
  • If anything, as the formal court system developed, women's petitioning on the southern Avalon dwindled away, except in probate and administration matters, which surged in the 1820s, 30s, and 40s. Gutenber-e Help Page
  • We can’t unbuild those Saudi Arabian fields, though happily their supplies are starting to slowly dwindle. Bill McKibben: Will North America Be the New Middle East?
  • Without her earnings, and with the addition of Charlotte, money seemed to have dwindled to nothing.
  • And we've been having our retirement savings put up and we've been using that, but it's begun to kind of dwindle away. Presidents Remarks In Healthcare Conference Call
  • By the time the bombers arrived over their targets, their formations were still intact but the phalanx protecting them had dwindled alarmingly. FIGHTER BOYS: Saving Britain 1940
  • The Malabar, that huge sea monster, in whose capacious belly so many human creatures lived and suffered, had dwindled to a walnut – shell, and yet beside her bulk how infinitely small had their own frail cockboat appeared as they shot out from under her towering stern! For the term of his natural life
  • In the final week that number dwindled to five. Times, Sunday Times

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