How to Use dwindle in a Sentence

dwindle

verb

• Our energy dwindled as the meeting dragged on.
• The town's population is dwindling away.
• By 2021, that dwindled to less than three hours a week.
  — Karissa Waddick, USA TODAY, 13 Feb. 2025
• Waiting days for food The price of dwindling food in Gaza has soared.
  — CBS News, 10 Dec. 2023
• The banks also warned the lift from rates would dwindle this year.
  — David Benoit, WSJ, 13 Jan. 2023
• No one likes to look up at the scoreboard and see the numbers dwindling down.
  — Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 14 June 2023
• Around the same time, the Shakers’ ranks began to dwindle.
  — New York Times, 23 Apr. 2022
• That is, of course, why lakes Mead and Powell have dwindled to record lows.
  — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 27 Apr. 2023
• Contacts dwindled again during the first years of Biden's term.
  — David J. Lynch, BostonGlobe.com, 2 July 2023
• At the same time, their numbers have dwindled with age and illness.
  — David Chiu, Peoplemag, 6 June 2024
• There is no way to predict whether the flu outbreaks will dwindle or grow worse.
  — New York Times, 17 June 2022
• The calls slowed as hope dwindled and the department still hadn’t made any arrests.
  — Kallie Cox, Charlotte Observer, 17 Jan. 2025
• By now, that number has dwindled to less than 24 hours.
  — Henry Chandonnet, Peoplemag, 21 June 2023
• One of the concerns of the panelists was the dwindling post-pandemic box office.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 10 Dec. 2023
• His market has dwindled quite a bit and there are only a few teams left in the sweepstakes.
  — Kristen Waggoner, Newsweek, 22 Jan. 2025
• The number of breweries in Georgetown will soon dwindle from two to just one.
  — Tiney Ricciardi, The Denver Post, 28 Jan. 2025
• Freeform’s scripted roster has dwindled in the past two years.
  — Lesley Goldberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Mar. 2024
• The area is home to the dwindling desert tortoise and an endangered plant called the Lane Mountain milk-vetch.
  — Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2024
• Alaskan oil production has dwindled in the last three decades.
  — Reuters, NBC News, 6 Sep. 2023
• As the light dwindled on the evening of December 1, bodies lay on the ground outside the stadium and on the pitch.
  — Adam Leventhal, The Athletic, 15 Dec. 2024
• Father Rafael Garcia, the pastor at the church, said the numbers of migrants have dwindled in the past few days.
  — Nouran Salahieh, CNN, 14 May 2023
• Like many volunteer groups across the United States, the Jaycees have dwindled.
  — J. David Goodman Desiree Rios, New York Times, 4 May 2024
• The church, built in 1889, has seen its membership dwindle over the years, and with it the money needed to restore the building.
  — Jada Clarke, ABC News, 2 Oct. 2023
• Officials warned of a dwindling water supply and said the worst was yet to come.
  — Emmett Lindner, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2025
• It’s most likely just a self-fulling prophecy that will dwindle as soon as the market trips again.
  — Dan Runkevicius, Forbes, 12 Aug. 2022
• Though the craft of hat making has dwindled in recent decades, Moore is among a group of milliners still passionate about the work.
  — Morgan Evans, Vogue, 4 May 2024
• In the process, species like the dolphins and the tapirs, were driven from their habitats, their numbers rapidly dwindling.
  — Rebecca Shaw, TIME, 9 Oct. 2024
• In a couple of hours, the supply will dwindle to almost nothing.
  — Elena Bruess, San Antonio Express-News, 14 Sep. 2022
• But the actual quality of play has not dwindled — quite the opposite.
  — Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 26 Feb. 2025
• Eventually, that dwindled to just one school: Broward Estates.
  — Amanda Rosa, Miami Herald, 6 Mar. 2025

Last Updated: 25 Mar 2025