How to Use dwindle in a Sentence

dwindle

verb
  • Our energy dwindled as the meeting dragged on.
  • The town's population is dwindling away.
  • One crisis made worse by the work stoppage is the company’s dwindling supply of cash.
    Melvin Backman, Quartz, 25 Sep. 2024
  • From here, the daytime TV doctor’s health began to dwindle.
    Ginny Hogan, Men's Health, 6 Apr. 2023
  • In the process, species like the dolphins and the tapirs, were driven from their habitats, their numbers rapidly dwindling.
    Rebecca Shaw, TIME, 9 Oct. 2024
  • Driving the news: The organization's stock is dwindling, but the need for diapers isn't.
    Lucille Sherman, Axios, 8 Oct. 2024
  • Copi eat plankton and algae—so much plankton that other fish get bupkes and native populations dwindle or die out entirely.
    Kate Knibbs, WIRED, 15 Mar. 2023
  • Precarious work In many industries, large numbers of the reliable jobs that paid enough for workers to be in the middle class have dwindled.
    Robert Forrant, The Conversation, 27 Sep. 2024
  • The fishing season has been called off in the hopes of making the Chinook salmon more viable in the future, as models show the population dwindling.
    Tori Latham, Robb Report, 20 Mar. 2023
  • At some point, as populations dwindle, the budget math doesn’t add up anymore, and rural schools are forced to consolidate with adjacent districts — or worse.
    Mike Hixenbaugh, NBC News, 21 Mar. 2023
  • Season 2 finds the survivors in an increasingly dire situation as supplies dwindle.
    Joshua Alston, Variety, 21 Mar. 2023
  • On Sunday, Orpo was quick to stress that Finland’s support for Ukraine would not dwindle under his leadership.
    Jennifer Hassan, Washington Post, 3 Apr. 2023
  • Over time, the worst days for air quality will improve as these appliances dwindle, according to Phil Martien, a staff member with the district.
    Julie Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 Mar. 2023
  • Calcaterra landed at Connecticut in June, after most of the 1,000-plus transfers had found new home and options were dwindling.
    Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Mar. 2023
  • Waiting days for food The price of dwindling food in Gaza has soared.
    CBS News, 10 Dec. 2023
  • No one likes to look up at the scoreboard and see the numbers dwindling down.
    Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 14 June 2023
  • That is, of course, why lakes Mead and Powell have dwindled to record lows.
    Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 27 Apr. 2023
  • Contacts dwindled again during the first years of Biden's term.
    David J. Lynch, BostonGlobe.com, 2 July 2023
  • At the same time, their numbers have dwindled with age and illness.
    David Chiu, Peoplemag, 6 June 2024
  • By now, that number has dwindled to less than 24 hours.
    Henry Chandonnet, Peoplemag, 21 June 2023
  • One of the concerns of the panelists was the dwindling post-pandemic box office.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 10 Dec. 2023
  • Freeform’s scripted roster has dwindled in the past two years.
    Lesley Goldberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Mar. 2024
  • Alaskan oil production has dwindled in the last three decades.
    Reuters, NBC News, 6 Sep. 2023
  • Father Rafael Garcia, the pastor at the church, said the numbers of migrants have dwindled in the past few days.
    Nouran Salahieh, CNN, 14 May 2023
  • Like many volunteer groups across the United States, the Jaycees have dwindled.
    J. David Goodman Desiree Rios, New York Times, 4 May 2024
  • The church, built in 1889, has seen its membership dwindle over the years, and with it the money needed to restore the building.
    Jada Clarke, ABC News, 2 Oct. 2023
  • Though the craft of hat making has dwindled in recent decades, Moore is among a group of milliners still passionate about the work.
    Morgan Evans, Vogue, 4 May 2024
  • Gollan said the window of time to save those trapped under the rubble was rapidly dwindling.
    Aaron Boxerman, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Sep. 2023
  • Against this background, support for Maduro and the Chavista regime began to dwindle.
    Nicole Acevedo, NBC News, 29 July 2024
  • Haiti is one of the poorest countries in the Americas and the U.N. and other aid groups say food and water are dwindling.
    Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 12 Mar. 2024

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