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Usage examples of dwindle.

And so she walked, aimlessly, anonymously, through the dwindling crowds, past the shops--half of them empty now, half still clinging tenaciously to life and profit, hanging on until the bitter end.

If it has not begun to dwindle by that time, we will approach the Baptist and question him.

In the same way, the hard-tech people had dwindled, going back to the Radhakrishnan Institute and leaving high-bandwidth communications links in their place, so that they could monitor the biochip from the other side of the country.

Over half an hour the sails were snugged, and the tired ship lumped along towards the north Kent coast, with Biter dwindling into the ruck of boats and ships converging on the estuary.

Peabody, Miss Burell, and the others were standing at the base of a hill looking back as the Shaloux aircraft that had brought them there dwindled into the distance.

That clue had faded into nothingness, so far as Kurman and Cleer were concerned, just as their ideas of a large haul had dwindled.

In the first place, the faith pales and dwindles, from the general neglect of that strenuous and constant cultivation of it formerly secured by the stern doctrinal drill and by the rigid supervision of daily thought and habit in the interests of religion.

Immediately that suspicion dwindled, for Fred could see no reason why Durand, of all people, would have forced his new assistant to listen to a phone call demanding a sell-out.

Reserves of understanding dwindled under duress, were pared down by despondency or depression.

These little nocturnal burrowing edentates are the puny representatives of the gigantic Glyptodon of Pleistocene times, and the sloths are the dwindling shadows of the lordly Megatherium.

Soul, while its phases differ, must, in all of them, remain a contemplation and what seems to be an act done under contemplation must be in reality that weakened contemplation of which we have spoken: the engendered must respect the Kind, but in weaker form, dwindled in the descent.

Ennis was out by the Escalade, getting useless statements from a few more of the dwindling crowd of karaoke patrons, when his radio crackled again.

Her supporters soon dwindled, taking refuge in a form of extreme esotericism appreciated by a handful of esoteric people.

There is still the occasional goldfish, from previous managers, hanging in the murky fishpond, but between the monitor lizards and the fishing birds, their numbers dwindle monthly.

As national stockpiles of metals dwindled in the mid-1990s, the price of minerals extracted from the sea by Forte Oceanic Resources skyrocketed.