Example sentences for: waned

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

  • Through the dictionary's various editions and changes of name, the whimsical definitions waxed and waned, until the 1972 edition purged almost all of them from the text.

  • If you missed the link, click to see how the influence of cultural gatekeepers has waned in the last 50 years.

  • Sample passage: "Like Charles Ryder in Brideshead Revisited , Reagan found himself homeless, middle-aged and loveless as his thirty-ninth year waned.

  • Empirical and theoretical support for both ideas has waxed and waned over recent decades.

  • As news organizations have waned, the corporations have waxed, hiring fleets of workers who shape the news, often by spoon-feeding lazy reporters.


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