How to Use on the wane in a Sentence

on the wane

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• With tree pollen on the wane over coming weeks, next up is grass pollen.
  — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 15 Apr. 2023
• Word didn’t spread far enough last summer, and youth baseball is on the wane.
  — Gregg Doyel, The Indianapolis Star, 14 Apr. 2022
• The formation of huge blackbird flocks is a sure sign summer is on the wane.
  — Taylor Piephoff, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
• While my career was on the wane, Michelle’s career was thriving.
  — Mara Wilson, Vulture, 18 Mar. 2025
• With sales on the wane, the agency is looking to lean on rates to keep its budget from sinking.
  — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Apr. 2024
• Is the Covid delta variant surge finally on the wane in Ohio?
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 30 Sep. 2021
• The virus was on the wane, but its impact made things seem precarious inside the mall.
  — Washington Post, 20 Jan. 2022
• The days when families sat down in a living room to watch live TV are on the wane.
  — Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2025
• Right now, America’s fervor for testing is, like the virus, on the wane.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 1 Mar. 2022
• The usefulness of these formerly fun discourse pictures is on the wane.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 11 Sep. 2024
• While attacking midfield has long been considered a strength for the side, the department is on the wane.
  — Colin Millar, The Athletic, 7 July 2024
• Now, with vaccines in millions of arms and the Omicron variant on the wane, there are signs investors are ready to move on.
  — Angelica Peebles, Fortune, 14 Feb. 2022
• Once again, yellowjackets appear to be on the wane, but Benadryl in the pack is always a good idea.
  — Bill Monroe, oregonlive, 17 Sep. 2021
• With coronavirus on the wane thanks to vaccination efforts, things are starting to get back to normal.
  — Jennifer Brett, ajc, 31 May 2021
• Pastrnak has not had much luck finding the back of the net and his confidence in that endeavor has seemingly been on the wane.
  — Steve Conroy, Boston Herald, 5 Dec. 2024
• On Friday, optimism appeared to be on the wane in Washington.
  — Freddie Clayton, NBC news, 24 Aug. 2025
• The connection between jobs and airline service may seem hazy in an era where so many people work remotely and business travel is on the wane.
  — Alana Semuels, Time, 17 Jan. 2023
• Demand for self-storage facilities is on the wane after a big surge in business during the pandemic.
  — Chris Morris, Fortune, 25 July 2023
• By that point, for a variety of reasons, the culture of spas as gathering places in the summer was on the wane, and many spa towns had to reinvent themselves.
  — Veronique Greenwood, Time, 9 July 2026
• On a more general level, finding a print will do so much for film preservation in an era when theatrical exhibition is on the wane.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 29 Apr. 2021
• The hefty price tag means some people are putting off parenthood until later in life, when their fertility and openness to child-rearing might be on the wane.
  — Joyce Jiang, CNN, 18 Aug. 2024
• But now these high-paying coding and engineering roles are on the wane, thanks to AI automation.
  — Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 25 Aug. 2025
• With May on the wane, many of us are feeling picky about produce; eager to get on onto local farms and pluck our own berries and other fruit from patches, trees and vines.
  — Cheryl V. Jackson, The Indianapolis Star, 26 May 2023
• The goal in both Russia and Iran will be to ensure a high turnout, to avoid any impression that support for the authorities is on the wane.
  — Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Jan. 2024
• In the streaming age, the willingness to take creative risks may also be on the wane, the legendary creator suggested on Tuesday.
  — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 7 July 2026
• With trigger-warning culture on the wane and a brutish permissiveness creeping back into society, corporate scolds have lost much of their power.
  — Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 2 Sep. 2025
• Another move at odds with current trends is the decision to merge with a SPAC as a route to market — a type of deal that is on the wane.
  — Ercan Ersoy, Bloomberg.com, 13 Dec. 2022
• Demand for other languages like Clojure, Haskell, and Visual Basic is also on the wane.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 18 July 2017
• The Hines brothers inherited a tap-dance tradition on the wane and, decades later, had a lot to do with bringing it back into the public consciousness.
  — Brian Seibert, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2024
• The sun is now thought to be on the wane, having peaked in late 2024, but the best aurora displays often occur in the few years after solar maximum.
  — Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2025