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Example sentences for: waning

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Population growth and a corresponding increase in crime are primarily responsible for the dwindling number of local candidates, but interest is also waning, Smylie Brown said.
With the introduction of the birth-control pill, the province’s birthrate dropped from the highest to lowest in the nation, causing conservatives to worry at the waning influence of the Catholic Church and the prospect that French-Canadians would drown in a sea of Anglos.
There's no shortage of would-be gatekeepers, but in recent years their influence has been waning.
Fearing his powers might be waning as he approached 30, Nash decided he would solve the most important unresolved problem in mathematics: the Riemann Zeta conjecture.
The New York Times leads with Republicans' waning hopes that Flytrap will mean big gains for the GOP on Election Day.