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Sentences with dwindle

dwin·dle
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  • The factory's workforce has dwindled from over 4,000 to a few hundred. [VERB]
  • His vast fortune has dwindled away.
  • The town's population is dwindling away.
  • Enrolments and funding are in decline, books languish unpublished as readerships dwindle, and prospects for new PhDs are abysmal.
  • Failing health dwindles ambition.
  • The flattery of his friends began to dwindle into simple approbation. (Goldsmith, Vicar, III)
  • The LRA's support from neighbouring Sudan had begun to dwindle since a peace deal that granted the country's south more autonomy.
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