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• Blue-collar workers represent a diminishing segment of society.From the entry blue-collar
• Without annealing, the quality of our metal products will diminish.From the entry annealing
• Slander is a double-edged weapon: you can hurt the reputation of another but it diminishes your own reputation that you debase yourself so much.From the entry double-edged
• Freedom of expression indicators are most frequently diminishing, with nine of the top 20.2026, “Unraveling The Democratic Era?”, in V-Dem Institute, archived from the original on 17 Mar 2026, page 13. From the entry autocratize
• We've been worried about adolescents' diminishing writing and speaking skills for years.2025 December 9, Rachel Konrad and Matt Abrahams, “Why Young People Are Struggling to Communicate”, in TIME. From the entry erode
• Stimulation of MOR in the intestines reduces propulsatile and diminishes intestinal secretions.2016, Gary S. Firestein, Ralph Budd, Sherine E Gabriel, Kelley and Firestein's Textbook of Rheumatology, →ISBN, page 1084. From the entry propulsatile
• Freedom from greed unties the knot of greedful actions, but does not diminish our capacity to act.2014, Anantanand Rambachan, A Hindu Theology of Liberation: Not-Two Is Not One, →ISBN, page 78. From the entry greedful
• Prison has diminishing returns, and America long ago passed the point where jailing more people makes sense.2013 August 17, “One nation, behind bars”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8849. From the entry decades
• Morphine reduces propulsatile activity in the small and large intestine and diminishes intestinal secretions.2011, Laurence Brunton, Bruce Chabner, Bjorn Knollman, Goodman and Gilman's The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics, →ISBN, page 496. From the entry propulsatile
• According to Keegan, the disintegration of the Iraqi army should not diminish the American success.2011 January 26, Eitan Shamir, Transforming Command: The Pursuit of Mission Command in the U.S., British, and Israeli Armies, Stanford…. From the entry thunder run
• The number of players will diminish, but the strong players may be stabler after the crisis.”2009 March 30, Eric Pfanner, “European Newspapers Find Creative Ways to Thrive in the Internet Age”, in New York Times. From the entry stabler
• How do “best friends 4ever" fight each other over a diminishing number of college slots?2009, Stephen Hinshaw, Rachel Kranz, The Triple Bind: Saving Our Teenage Girls from Today's Pressures, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 8. From the entry 4ever
• I had too many shares and the trading volume was diminishing.2008, Barry Igdaloff, A Guest in a Nightmare, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 35. From the entry stuckholder
• The stack of folded diapers on the shelf above it was diminishing rapidly.2005, Lauraine Snelling, Amethyst, page 127. From the entry soaker
• Louie: 'Neither boiling nor baking can diminish this creature's overpowering musky scent.2004, Nintendo EAD, Pikmin 2, Nintendo, level/area: Piklopedia. From the entry in-law
• Forlorn and diminishing, these pathetic gods still inhabit the American mythscape.2003, Richard Walsh, Reading the Gospels in the Dark, page 173. From the entry mythscape
• For patients prone to retropulsion, wearing shoes with high heels may diminish or prevent the backward stepping.2001, Roger C. Duvoisin, Jacob Sage, Parkinson's Disease: A Guide for Patient and Family, →ISBN, page 38. From the entry retropulsion
• He seeks a fat role in a hit show, lest he diminish his market value.1997, Harold Clurman, On Directing, page 12. From the entry fat
• However, since so many Japanese industries have adopted Kanban, this problem is diminishing.1994, Yasuhiro Monden, Toyota Production System: An Integrated Approach to Just-In-Time, Chapman & Hall, →ISBN, page 51. From the entry kanban
• Inflation increases capital outflight which diminishes the availability of funds for domestic investment.1990, André Fargeix, Elisabeth Sadoulet, A Financial Computable General Equilibrium Model for the Analysis of Ecuador's Stabilization…. From the entry outflight
• Day by day for two-and-a-half years, I've seen resources diminishing, disappearing.1989 December 10, John Zeh, quoting Tony Allen, “AIDS Groups' Execs Arrested In D.C.”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 22, page 1. From the entry red cent
• As the trauma diminishes in the weeks ahead, another meaning will emerge from the doomsday events.1986 February 8, “Editorial: The flight that failed”, in The Nation, page 1. From the entry doomsday event
• But is it, as the sunrisers claim, diminishing in its obstructive force?1986, Management Today. From the entry sunriser
• Pseudoemotional behaviors such as pouting, temper tantrums and whining usually, and intentionally, diminish encounters.1981, Walter Kempler, Experiential Psychotherapy Within Families, page 106. From the entry pseudoemotional
• Then a high whiny sound, gradually diminishing, a sort of shush, and finally all is quiet.1975, Jill Wilson Cohn, Writing: the personal voice. From the entry belchy
• If people are upminded about future possibilities, present tragedies diminish in psychological consequence.1975, Playgirl. From the entry up-minded
• This diminishes even further the remote chance of the fish surviving to respawn.1970, Idaho Wildlife Review, volumes 23-29, page 161. From the entry respawn
• The pounded leaves of the willow, drunk in a concoction, were formerly reputed to diminish amatory desires.1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 249. From the entry willow
• So-called uninsurables are a rapidly diminishing group, according to the Institute of Life Insurance.1960 July 20, “Few Uninsurable in the Jet Age”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry uninsurable
• Yet the incident did not in the least diminish my respect for my teacher.1927-29, M.K. Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, translated 1940 by Mahadev Desai, Part I, Chapter ii. From the entry scan
• The governor agreed that diminishing returns were a risk.2022 September 7, Jill Cowan, Shawn Hubler, Ivan Penn, “California Leaders Credit Cellphone Alert for Sudden Conservation”, in The New…. From the entry diminishing returns
• In the UK, a combination of rust, banger racing and general neglect helped to diminish the number of Ventoras.2022 April 29, Andrew B Roberts, “UK's rarest cars: 1972 Vauxhall Ventora, one of only 30 left on British roads”, in The Daily Telegraph. From the entry banger racing
• There are also complex physicochemical steric and other structural features that either enhance or diminish the ulcerogenicity of these benzoic acids.2016, Kim D. Rainsford, Aspirin and Related Drugs, page 412. From the entry ulcerogenicity
• Conversely, a defamilializing regime is one in which policies unburden the household by diminishing individuals’ welfare dependence on kinship.2016 September 15, Sophie Mathieu, “From the Defamilialization to the “Demotherization” of Care Work”, in Social Politics, volume 23…. From the entry defamilializing
• He had become increasingly petty, irritated by details, by the diminishing, for example, of their forenames—Bill, Bert, Mike, Geoff, Steve.2012 April 17, P.D. James, Innocent Blood, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 41. From the entry Geoff
• The height of the eyepoint diminishes with increasing eyepiece magnification, while its diameter remains fairly constant at 1-1.5 mm.2012, J. James, H.J Tanke, Biomedical Light Microscopy, →ISBN, page 16. From the entry eyepoint

Meaning of diminish

1. verb To make smaller.
2. verb To become less or smaller.
3. verb To make appear smaller than in reality; to dismiss as unimportant.

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Questions about diminish in a sentence

How do you use diminish in a sentence?

Diminish is used as a verb. For example: “Blue-collar workers represent a diminishing segment of society.”

What is a short sentence with diminish?

“Each one diminishes liberty.”

What does diminish mean?

Diminish means to make smaller.