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Dwindle
"Dwindle" in a Sentence (16 examples)
We've made great inroads into solving the problem, but our resources dwindle and the end is not in sight.
The outer toes then begin to dwindle, and the newly-born foal supports itself on its central digit alone; but horses are occasionally born with two digits, each encased in a hoof, and at very rare intervals with three.
The prospects of Zimbabwe facing hunger in the coming months are high, as stocks dwindle and donors ignore calls for more aid.
Their supplies began to dwindle after a week.
Interest in the project slowly dwindled.
dwindle away
dwindle to nothing
dwindle steadily
1802, T. Paynell (translator), Erasmus, The Complaint of Peace [E]very thing that was improving gradually degenerates and dwindles away to nothing, […]
VVearie Seu'nights, nine times nine, / Shall he dvvindle, peake, and pine: […]
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Religious Societies, though begun with excellent Intention, and by Perſons of true Piety, have dwindled into factious Clubs; […]
The flattery of his friends began to dwindle into simple approbation.
The larger the empire, the more dwindles the mind of the citizen.
[I]nfected tulips are weakened by the viruses that cause the very patterns and swirls that fascinated horticulturists and investors in the first place. Such bulbs tend to dwindle away instead of fattening up and producing offsets.
Our drooping days are dwindled down to nought.
there were only five hundred foot and three hundred horse left with him, for the blocking of Plymouth; the rest were dwindled away
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