in decline

phrase

: to become less powerful, wealthy, etc.

There was a general feeling that the country was in decline.

Examples of in decline in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Out of the Toronto International Film Festival last week, reviews for Zack Snyder’s The Last Photograph painted a picture of a director in decline. — Chris Lee, Vulture, 25 Sep. 2026

The politics of guns has changed significantly in the past five years, with Congress passing a bipartisan gun safety law and the National Rifle Association’s influence in decline. — Burgess Everett, semafor.com, 10 Sep. 2026

While coal production in the US has been in decline for almost two decades, there is still plenty of coal left to be mined. — Literary Hub, 9 Sep. 2026

Scientists have scrambled to investigate, hoping to prevent further deaths in a species that has been in decline for years—gray whales lost 35 percent of their population between 2020 and 2025. — Ainslie Cruickshank, Scientific American, 9 Sep. 2026

Rhymes for in decline

• alkaline
• andesine
• anodyne
• anticline
• arginine
• asinine
• benzidine
• borderline
• byzantine
• calamine
• caroline
• centerline