Example sentences for: dwindled

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

  • Having consistently urged the use of ground forces, the paper finally recognized in an editorial that "the possibility of a ground attack has dwindled."

  • According to the NYT lead, the governor of the Bank of Japan told Rubin and Greenspan that the capital behind his nation's top 19 banks has dwindled so low that if international rules requiring capital on hand to be at least 8 percent of total outstanding loans were strictly enforced, they might be banned from operating overseas.

  • Athens dwindled ever further.

  • The Mafia's power has steadily declined since the late '50s . In New York, the number of "soldiers" or "wise-guys "--the ones who take the blood oath--has dwindled.

  • The worst-treated, however, were the Native Americans, whose numbers dwindled rapidly not only as a result of disease and malnutrition but also because of systematic massacres in the 1850s by Californian militia.


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