Waning

//ˈweɪ.nɪŋ//

"Waning" in a Sentence (16 examples)

His strength is waning.

The eruption seems to be waning.

His popularity is waning.

It is a waning moon.

The moon is waning.

During the second half of the lunar month, the Moon grows thinner each night. We call this waning.

When energy is waning mid-afternoon, it’s pretty incredible how a little deep breathing and muscle movement can completely re-invent your mood.

Well did I come to know the presiding dryads of those trees, and often have I watched their wild dances in the struggling beams of waning moon—but of these things I must not now speak.

To his eyes all seemed beautiful, but to me a tinge of melancholy lay upon the country-side, which bore so clearly the mark of the waning year.

The pallid moon is waning.

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And boyhood is a summer sun Whose waning is the dreariest one — For all we live to know is known And all we seek to keep hath flown — […]

Soothed again, but only soothed to deeper gloom, Ahab, who had sterned off from the whale, sat intently watching his final wanings from the now tranquil boat.

17th century, Joseph Hall, Epistle to Mr. R. B. This earthly moon, the Church, hath her fulls and wanings, and sometimes her eclipses.

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