Dwindled

Examples

• Towards the end of October it dwindled away, and was in some degree replaced by a typhus, of hardly less virulence. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• If he were ever a big old man, he has shrunk into a little old man; if he were always a little old man, he has dwindled into a less old man. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• It was not so with me; and the question of rank and right dwindled to insignificance in my eyes, when I pictured the scene of suffering Athens. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Their retainers became consequently less numerous, and, by degrees, dwindled away altogether. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• In its light everything else dwindled and fell away from her. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• As the waters of the planet dried and the seas receded, all other resources dwindled until life upon the planet became a constant battle for survival. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• 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. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• He was still in the forest, and the numbers of his lost companions had dwindled to very few. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• 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. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• No one came to talk to her, and one by one the group dwindled away till she was left alone. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• The routine conception dwindled, and the Roosevelt appointees went at issues as problems to be solved. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Fifty years after Aristotle's death the Lyceum had already dwindled to insignificance. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• But the kingdom of death put them all to scorn, they dwindled into their true vulgar silliness in face of it. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• She had a sense of deeper empoverishment--of an inner destitution compared to which outward conditions dwindled into insignificance. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• But by now the competition had become so keen and the cost of manufacturing so heavy that the field dwindled quickly. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.

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