waning

How To Use waning In A Sentence

• It will not be washed out by moonlight this year, since the Moon will be a waning crescent just a couple of days from New.
• The Servant is a savage indictment of the English class system, and its waning hold over all aspects of the working and cultural life of Britain.
• It cannot have gone unnoticed that our global power has waned in tandem with the waning of our pants. Times, Sunday Times
• Thin waning crescent Moon nearby on the 8th. Times, Sunday Times
• For the first season ever I have started skipping the results show and am feeling a little guilty about my waning loyalty - your vlog was the perfect compromise. "American Idol" results -- vlogged!
• The uncertain flicker of the flames and sparks from our beacon (which, though itself invisible, darkened and lightened like sheet lightning), the dismal umbery glimmer of the waning moon, and the pale approach of day over the mountains to the east, made the face appear almost ghastly. The Dew of Their Youth
• The net effect is to restore my overall elan and joie-de-vivre, two quantities which are sorely waning at times like these.
• A conscientious attempt has been made to trace the life and career of Yvette Guilbert from her childhood in the Parisian gutter (or not far removed from it), through her glittering supremacy as a fin de siècle diseuse, on into the years of waning prestige and cultural pretension, and so to her last days, harassed and impecunious, in the bleak Provence of 1944. This Was Not Yvette
• Dragonflies dip and buzz, their prismatic wings turning the waning sunlight to diamonds.
• He has constant pins and needles over his upper body and waning strength. Times, Sunday Times