Diminishes

Examples

• We learned in Section 287 that the strength of a current increases when the electromotive force increases, and diminishes when the electromotive force diminishes. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Now Dalton's master had taught that the atoms of matter in a gas (elastic fluid) repel one another by a force increasing in proport ion as their distance diminishes. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• The light diminishes in brightness much more rapidly than we realize, as the following simple experiment will show. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• But the intensity of the vibrations diminishes very rapidly with the distance; so that even with the aid of speaking-tubes and trumpets it is impossible to exceed somewhat narrow limits. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Mr. Bucket brings a chair and diminishes his shadow. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The same quantity of money, besides, can not long remain in any country in which the value of the annual produce diminishes. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• In proportion as the resemblance decays, the probability diminishes; but still has some force as long as there remain any traces of the resemblance. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• When this distance diminishes, the comparison is less to our advantage; and consequently gives us less pleasure, and is even disagreeable. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• When the poles of a simple voltaic cell are connected by a wire, the current thus produced slowly diminishes in strength and, after a short time, becomes feeble. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• In the progress of improvement, rent, though it increases in proportion to the extent, diminishes in proportion to the produce of the land. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• And this is the reason why custom encreases all active habits, but diminishes passive, according to the observation of a late eminent philosopher. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• The time diminishes daily, and is usefully employed. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• The last form neither augments nor diminishes visible objects; the concave diminishes them, the convex increases them, but both show them blurred and indistinct. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The demand for servants increases, while the number of those who offer to supply that demand diminishes. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• That of the manufacturing workmanship diminishes, perhaps, in all of them without exception. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The cushion diminishes the force of the rolling balls and flying pins, permitting them to fall gently into the pit. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• When I think of God, when I think of him as existent, and when I believe him to be existent, my idea of him neither encreases nor diminishes. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.

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