How to Use dwindle in a Sentence

dwindle

verb
Definition of dwindlenext
Synonyms for dwindlenext
  • Our energy dwindled as the meeting dragged on.
  • The town's population is dwindling away.
  • 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
  • Contacts dwindled again during the first years of Biden's term.
    — David J. Lynch, BostonGlobe.com, 2 July 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • Gollan said the window of time to save those trapped under the rubble was rapidly dwindling.
    — Aaron Boxerman, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Sep. 2023
  • 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
  • Food and water are dwindling as stands and stores selling to impoverished Haitians run out of goods.
    — Dánica Coto and Evens Sanon, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Mar. 2024
  • That means the housing supply has dwindled and put pressure on new home sales, which have increased as a result.
    — Zachary Halaschak, Washington Examiner, 23 Aug. 2023
  • But with Curry’s prime dwindling, the bar should be higher than just competing.
    — Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 11 Jan. 2024
  • This list will dwindle down to 14 teams after the NFL Week 18 schedule, when the complete playoff field is determined.
    — Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 2 Jan. 2024
  • Russian troop morale is dwindling, and the armed forces continue to perform below par.
    — Samuel Charap, Foreign Affairs, 13 July 2023
  • Since then, the search has commanded global headlines as the world counted down the craft’s dwindling hours of oxygen supply.
    — Chris Kenning, USA TODAY, 22 June 2023
  • But in the past few years, as male readership has dwindled to the truly hardcore hardbackers, the gap has vanished.
    — Andrew Van Dam, Washington Post, 22 Dec. 2023
  • The states that rely on the Colorado River, which is shrinking because of climate change and overuse, are rushing to agree on a long-term deal to share the dwindling resource by the end of the year.
    — Christopher Flavelle, New York Times, 6 Jan. 2024
  • Over the next few months, Lipkin’s assignments dwindled.
    — Pranshu Verma and Gerrit De Vynck, Anchorage Daily News, 4 June 2023
  • Over the next few months, Lipkin's assignments dwindled.
    — Pranshu Verma, BostonGlobe.com, 3 June 2023
  • But the population of wild corpse flowers is dwindling.
    — Victoria Sayo Turner, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 July 2023
  • Whatever the reason, this is the time to get to know your town, when tourist season has ended, crowds have dwindled and discounts are available.
    — Miami Staff, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
  • Sun bears, whose numbers are dwindling in the wild, are hunted for their fur and meat or otherwise mistreated.
    — Lyric Li, Washington Post, 1 Aug. 2023
  • Today, a pharmacy on the island keeps a tally of Venice’s dwindling residents on an LCD screen.
    — Stefano Pitrelli, Washington Post, 13 Feb. 2024
  • In a time of rising needs and dwindling resources, the moment demands a careful, thoughtful approach from city leaders.
    — Mercury News Editorial, The Mercury News, 9 Feb. 2024
  • The warning came as hospitals in Gaza struggled to treat masses of wounded with dwindling resources.
    — Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 26 Oct. 2023
  • Participation dwindled as parents feared putting their kids in the sport.
    — Rachel Bachman, WSJ, 15 Sep. 2023
  • Eventually, supplies began to dwindle, and the men took to their lifeboats, floating to an island that took 14 days in bitter Antarctic Seas to reach.
    — John Wenz, Popular Mechanics, 7 July 2023

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