How to Use in decline in a Sentence

in decline

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• As with so many species in decline, a loss of habitat is key to the changes.
  — Paul Smith, Journal Sentinel, 18 Jan. 2024
• The who, what, where and how of trade may be changing, but trade is not in decline.
  — Kristine Gill, Fortune, 3 Sep. 2024
• That could be ruinous to a sector which has been in decline for decades.
  — David Blackmon, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
• The news comes at a time when Terran’s stock has been in decline.
  — Q.ai - Powering A Personal Wealth Movement, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2023
• The high price of brisket is sometimes cited as a sign of a culture in decline.
  — Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker, 22 Feb. 2025
• Once an area is in decline, the trajectory is hard to change.
  — Sheelah Kolhatkar, The New Yorker, 29 Jan. 2024
• And there are moments that speak to the idea that the white male patriarchy is in decline.
  — Jen Chaney, Vulture, 3 May 2024
• The economy has been in decline for the past 10 years.
  — NBC news, 12 Apr. 2026
• Built in 1900, the church has been in decline in recent years.
  — Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 25 Mar. 2025
• Any gain would be a welcome change for a global art market that has been in decline for two years.
  — Robert Frank, CNBC, 9 May 2025
• As that conflict had died down, the total number of conflict deaths had been in decline.
  — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 29 June 2023
• So far, the popular case that trade is in decline looks like an overstatement.
  — Kristine Gill, Fortune, 3 Sep. 2024
• That should be music to shareholder’s ears at a time when media stocks have been in decline.
  — Jeff Valdez, Variety, 20 July 2024
• By then, Black radio and retail outlets had been in decline for years.
  — Danielle Amir Jackson Malike Sidibe, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2023
• And while spending is expected to be up again, the growth of that spending may be in decline.
  — Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 6 Nov. 2025
• Russian power, in decline, may have to be indulged to make peace in Ukraine.
  — Samuel Moyn, Harpers Magazine, 16 July 2025
• Their numbers in the wild are in decline, and breeding areas are threatened.
  — Karen Kucher, The Mercury News, 13 Oct. 2024
• Membership to yakuza groups across Japan has been in decline over recent decades.
  — Junko Ogura, CNN Money, 11 Apr. 2025
• The reason Bitcoin is in decline?
  — Jim Edwards, Fortune, 6 Feb. 2026
• But Spurs’ free cash is in decline again — and their heavy spending on transfers is the reason why.
  — Chris Weatherspoon, New York Times, 23 Apr. 2025
• Jake’s health had been in decline for months before his death — heart attacks, seizures, stomach pain and nausea.
  — Dateline Nbc, NBC news, 4 Mar. 2026
• The real danger of a second Trump term is not that Trump is a man in decline.
  — Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 27 Oct. 2024
• At the same time as unemployment among the youth is rising, their mental health is in decline.
  — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 21 June 2024
• Americans since the day of the founding have worried their country is in decline.
  — Elliot Kaufman, wsj.com, 14 May 2023
• Alas, humanity appears to be a species in decline.
  — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 9 Jan. 2026
• And refutes this idea that dinosaurs were in decline before the asteroid struck.
  — Ari Daniel, NPR, 30 Oct. 2025
• The latest update also reveals that more than half of bird species globally are in decline.
  — Doyle Rice, USA Today, 18 Oct. 2025
• Sales have been in decline for three years now, and the stock has plunged 64% from its all-time high in 2022.
  — Phil Wahba, Fortune, 21 Aug. 2025
• Jobs in coal had been in decline decades before the wind turbines came to Keyser in 2012.
  — Kat Lonsdorf, NPR, 26 Feb. 2024
• It's been in decline for a while, and is currently below the level of replacement.
  — Liam McBain, NPR, 27 June 2025