dwindling

How To Use dwindling In A Sentence

• If there was any hope of holding on to even a shred of her dwindling self-respect, she should do exactly what she knew Margo would do—close the laptop, take her de-scrunchied, perfumed, and nearly thonged self down to the nearest club, pick up the first passably good-looking stranger who asked her to dance, and bring him back to the apartment for some safe but anonymous sex. Goodnight Tweetheart
• Tickets for other Amalgamation matches should soon be available and it is hoped that more extensive advertising and a reduced number of contests at favoured venues will see a reverse in the dwindling attendances.
• As we enter what is sure to be a long period of uncertainty—a gantlet of lost jobs, dwindling assets, home foreclosures and two continuing wars—the downside of stress is certainly worth exploring.
• The crowds which have been passing to and fro during the whole day, are rapidly dwindling away; and the noise of shouting and quarrelling which issues from the public – houses, is almost the only sound that breaks the melancholy stillness of the night. Sketches by Boz
• As the years passed, historians and journalists sought out the dwindling band of those who had survived the earthquake. Times, Sunday Times
• Every day of the week some green doom-monger can be heard in lament for the dwindling or extinction of some bird or other.
• And just this week, it was announced that supplies are dwindling and prices are expected to spike as weather warms.
• He is struggling to come to terms with his dwindling authority.
• The aircraft circled the vessel for an hour before dwindling fuel reserves forced its return to Hawaii. Times, Sunday Times
• Action on dwindling fish reserves is overdue. Times, Sunday Times