DWINDLE in a Sentence

Learn DWINDLE from example sentences, some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

For DWINDLE, below is one of 34 sentences:
Carol's hero-worship dwindled to polite nodding, and the nodding dwindled to a desire to escape, and she went home with a headache.

Free Online Vocabulary Test
K12, SAT, GRE, IELTS, TOEFL
 Input your word:
Want to search a word in classic works?
Search Classic Quotes
 Meanings and Examples of DWINDLE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
dwindle
 v.  shrink; reduce in size; become less
Classic Sentence: (25 in 2 pages)
1  I remarked this in Peggotty, too, when she came down; and I have seen it since; and I think, in the expectation of that dread surprise, all other changes and surprises dwindle into nothing.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 30. A LOSS
2  Then it was that I began, if I may so Shakespearianly express myself, to dwindle, peak, and pine.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 52. I ASSIST AT AN EXPLOSION
3  And now for an instant the men stood, their rifles slack in their hands, and watched the regiment dwindle.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 19
4  Principles dwindle and pale in your constitutional cellar.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER IV—THE BACK ROOM OF THE CAFE MUSAIN
5  At times the school would dwindle away, and I would start out.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In IV
6  In its light everything else dwindled and fell away from her.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 12
7  Carol's hero-worship dwindled to polite nodding, and the nodding dwindled to a desire to escape, and she went home with a headache.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
8  His confident voice dwindled to a bewildered murmur, ceaseless and racking.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
9  The firing dwindled from an uproar to a last vindictive popping.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
10  The space between dwindled to an insignificant distance.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 23
11  One by one the numbers dwindled down, and still there came no sign of him.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER IV. A FLIGHT FOR LIFE
12  And so the story dwindled away.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 3
13  Below these in force, above them in pitch, a dwindled voice strove hard at a husky tune, which was the peculiar local sound alluded to.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 6 The Figure against the Sky
14  No one came to talk to her, and one by one the group dwindled away till she was left alone.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THREE
15  As the six evenings had dwindled away, to five, to four, to three, to two, I had become more and more appreciative of the society of Joe and Biddy.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XIX
Example Sentence:
1  The food in the life boat gradually had to dwindle away to nothing; in the end, they ate the ship's cook.
2  The community has dwindled to a tenth of its former size in the last two years.
3  Her savings has dwindled away over the years as the result of her extravagance.
4  In the past, companies with sloppy approaches have been able to count on their customers' lack of interest in cybersecurity which has dwindled over the years despite a succession of hacking scandals.
5  High log prices and dwindling timber supply are driving the crisis in the forestry industry that has kneecapped the economy.
6  According to one wag, the Court in Chatham is probably the only place in the town centre doing a brisk business, yet even here, footfall is dwindling.
7  A dwindling fan base in turn jeopardises the lucrative sponsorships that drive revenue.
8  Supplies of coal are dwindling fast.
9  The elephant population is dwindling.