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.

  • Five years later, the population had dwindled to 6.5 million: Two million had emigrated, and over 1 million had died.

  • But aside from a few exceptions, the supply of genuinely offensive language has dwindled almost to nothing as the 20th century comes to an end; the currency of swearing has been inflated to the brink of worthlessness.

  • Zippergate coverage has dwindled in European newspapers, though the Paris evening paper France-Soir had a front-page comment Monday headlined "Monica's Eyes," claiming that Lewinsky's "passionate look" in photographs left no room for doubt about her relationship with the president.


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