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• There is dwindling support for New Labour.From the entry dwindling
• Like Milton's Satan, Jabbar has dwindled and dimished in stature and St.2015 October 30, M.T. Ansari, Islam and Nationalism in India: South Indian contexts, Routledge, →ISBN. From the entry Geevarghese
• Indeed, this dwindling number of agency “enviros” has been the EPA's conscience over the years.2010, Craig Collins, Toxic Loopholes: Failures and Future Prospects for Environmental Law, page 9. From the entry enviro
• However, as the great arrays have grown, the number of Ents has dwindled.2004, Paola Amico, James Beletic, Scientific Detectors for Astronomy: The Beginning of a New Era, page xxvi. From the entry ent
• It is true that with the dwindling size of the Navy, there will be less repair work.1974, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations, Department of Defense Appropriations for 1975: Hearings..., page 320. From the entry shipyard
• Jewish culture, the product of a small, oppressed, and disfranchised dwindling and scattered minority.1929, Abraham Zevi Idelsohn, Jewish Music: Its Historical Development, page 175. From the entry disfranchise
• By then the summer surge was already dwindling, as travellers switched to the roads or jetted off to beach resorts abroad.2025 July 9, Richard Foster, “Summer specials and holiday hotspots”, in RAIL, number 1039, page 60. From the entry jet off
• Several decades later, the repercussions of these institutions are evident through the dwindling number of Hoocąk speakers, according to NNABSHC.2023 October 5, Tarun Vedula, “Hoocąk language organization preserves Indigenous culture”, in The Badger Herald. From the entry Hoocąk
• His favourables are dwindling and his unfavourables are rising.2021, Gordon Bickerstaff, Extreme Prejudice: If you fear trouble, don't get into trouble. From the entry favourables
• Yes, I am aware of the dwindling suppy situation.2017, BioWare, Mass Effect: Andromeda (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Reply Message: "Low Supplies?". From the entry dwindling
• Music unappreciation: A new book by Lawrence Kramer laments the dwindling enthusiasm for classical music and examines what could be lost.2007 July 2, Edward Rothstein, “Classical Music Imperiled: Can You Hear the Shrug?”, in New York Times. From the entry unappreciation
• Protoculture supply was dwindling, the galaxywide war running down like clockwork as both sides' resources and infrastructures declined.1989, Jack McKinney, The End of the Circle, →ISBN, page 203. From the entry galaxywide
• Texas industry is turning to lignite, a kind of poor man's coal, to replace its dwindling allocations of natural gas.1978 February 14, “Texas Turning to Its Reserves of Lignite”, in New York Times. From the entry lignite
• The aged sisters draw us into life: we wail, batten, sport, clip, clasp, sunder, dwindle, die: over us dead they bend.1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 14: Oxen of the Sun]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey]…. From the entry sepulchre
• Although sales are still growing—at a forecast 7% this year, to around 24m vehicles—firms’ profits have dwindled or losses mounted (see chart 1).2025 September 15, “The brutal fight to dominate Chinese carmaking”, in The Economist, archived from the original on 15 Sep 2025. From the entry price war
• Heavy sheets of rain dwindled to a slow, quiet drizzle as she pulled the car toward the front door of her store.2020 October 26, Zoey Blair, The Cadence of Secrets, Rockville Publishing, →ISBN. From the entry sheet
• They were undoubtedly the dwindling remnants of a pithecanthropoid species; they had enough intelligence to emulate their long-dead masters in working in gold.2014, Philip Jose Farmer, Tarzan Alive: A Definitive Biography of Lord Greystoke, →ISBN. From the entry pithecanthropoid
• As new production dwindled, and many people threw away the old stuff, what was left came to be seen as rare, antique and collectible.2007, John Strausbaugh, Black Like You: Blackface, Whiteface, Insult & Imitation in American Popular Culture, →ISBN. From the entry negrobilia
• "You didn't object to spending an occasional night in a comfortable bed so don't try to shift the dwindling cash onto my whims.2001 02, Geri Crowder, The Cat's-Eye, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 138. From the entry raise someone's shackles
• The Paradise Plums had dwindled substantially.1961, V[idiadhar] S[urajprasad] Naipaul, chapter 4, in A House for Mr Biswas, Part One, Vintage International, published 2001. From the entry lastingness
• His game time has dwindled in recent seasons – he is yet to play in the Premier League this campaign – but his performances for Wales are regularly monstrous.2025 October 13, Ben Fisher, “Unflappable, indispensable: centurion Ben Davies is the glue that holds Wales together”, in The Guardian. From the entry game time
• Veganly Convenient, in Strood High Street welcomed its first batch of diners on February 13 but has now shut up shop due to dwindling customer numbers.2022 July 25, Alex Langridge, “Vegan restaurants Veganly Convenient in Strood and Viva Las Vegan in Maidstone close”, in KentOnline…. From the entry veganly
• But as delivery schedules have dwindled into hours, even the gigantic warehouse full of stuff in a central place such as the triangle is proving insufficient.2019 November 21, Samanth Subramanian, “How our home delivery habit reshaped the world”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London…. From the entry abbreviate
• But rescuers have a dwindling window of opportunity, with forecasters predicting the return of heavy monsoon rains in the coming days, effectively sealing off the cave until October.2018 July 8, Euan McKirdy, Hilary Whiteman, “Thai cave rescue: Divers enter cave to free boys”, in edition.cnn.com, CNN, retrieved 08 Jul…. From the entry window
• “Take it up!” Saal shouted forward, and they accelerated away, the structure dwindling at the top of the falls, the crater lake falling into the distance.2008, Tobias S. Buckell, Halo: The Cole Protocol, New York: Tor, →ISBN, page 217. From the entry crater lake
• For if the unbaptized children who venture into the world at sixteen do not later return to the fold in sufficient numbers, the sect will dwindle and die out.2007, Tom Shachtman, Rumspringa: To Be or Not to Be Amish, North Point Press, →ISBN. From the entry rumspringa
• Books function as our extemal memory devices, and with them the need to exercise our intemal memories dwindles; something which has been noticed in recently literatized Inuit culture.2000, Forests, Trees, and People Newsletter - Issues 43-46, page 11. From the entry literatize
• He cannot help observing that she, however dwindled her love for her cuckolded husband, is securely attached to the social role and domestic furniture that come with her wifery.1986, John Updike, Roger’s Version, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, page 239. From the entry wifery
• The building of the consensus group, however, forced these interests to distinguish annoying features of the law from unworkable ones, and the list of the unworkables steadily dwindled.1983, Lawrence David Brown, Politics and Health Care Organization: HMOs as Federal Policy. From the entry unworkable
• Jerry went for a thing called "lemon plait." He watched the dwindling supply with anguish, not strong enough to reach the counter in the fetid excitement of hungry boys.1936, Francis Hackett, The Green Lion, page 241. From the entry lemon plait
• Prior to the Reformation the farm buildings (since rebuilt and considerably dwindled) had appertained, like much of the glebe-land around Valmouth, to the Abbots of St.1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 8. From the entry glebe-land
• For a few minutes, the sharp cracking of guns ahead warned them to haste, but finally the reports dwindled to an occasional shot, presently ceasing altogether.1913 June–December, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York, N.Y.: A[lexander] C[aldwell] McClurg, published March 1915, →OCLC. From the entry report
• His own identity was fading out into a grey impalpable world: the solid world itself which these dead had one time reared and lived in was dissolving and dwindling.1904–1907 (date written), James Joyce, “The Dead”, in Dubliners, London: Grant Richards, published June 1914, →OCLC, page 277. From the entry identity

Meaning of dwindle

1. verb To decrease, shrink, diminish, reduce in size or intensity.
2. verb To fall away in quality; degenerate, sink.
3. verb To lessen; to bring low.

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How do you use dwindle in a sentence?

Dwindle is used as a verb. For example: “Their supplies began to dwindle after a week.”

What is a short sentence with dwindle?

“dwindle to nothing”

What does dwindle mean?

Dwindle means to decrease, shrink, diminish, reduce in size or intensity.