Example sentences for: atrophying

How can you use “atrophying” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Budget cuts and boring, noncombat peacekeeping missions are atrophying our troops' battle-readiness.

  • I also had to overcome some grownup resistance to the books themselves, mostly owing to the atrophying of my capacity for the kind of flashlight-under-the-covers, breathless absorption you evoke so nicely.

  • A clear signal that the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal is atrophying: The "Clinton and the Media" and "Politics '98" threads all but mirrored each other this week.

  • He believed religion was atrophying under the deadly dogmatism of the Roman church.


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