Sentences with dwindle
dwin·dle
D d - 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- Enrolments and funding are in decline, books languish unpublished as readerships dwindle, and prospects for new PhDs are abysmal.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.