How to Use in decline in a Sentence

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  • At the end of the day, Russia is a weak state in decline.
    Leon Aron, National Review, 11 Nov. 2023
  • As with so many species in decline, a loss of habitat is key to the changes.
    Paul Smith, Journal Sentinel, 18 Jan. 2024
  • The news comes at a time when Terran’s stock has been in decline.
    Q.ai - Powering A Personal Wealth Movement, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2023
  • The who, what, where and how of trade may be changing, but trade is not in decline.
    Kristine Gill, Fortune, 3 Sep. 2024
  • But since the year 2000, Lake Powell has been in decline.
    Zak Podmore, The Denver Post, 30 Sep. 2024
  • And there are moments that speak to the idea that the white male patriarchy is in decline.
    Jen Chaney, Vulture, 3 May 2024
  • Jobs in coal had been in decline decades before the wind turbines came to Keyser in 2012.
    Kat Lonsdorf, NPR, 26 Feb. 2024
  • Chinook runs have been in decline for a long period, and the species is the subject of a U.S.-Canada treaty.
    Yereth Rosen, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Apr. 2023
  • Then the Nets arrived and seized upon a defense in decline.
    Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 26 Mar. 2023
  • Once an area is in decline, the trajectory is hard to change.
    Sheelah Kolhatkar, The New Yorker, 29 Jan. 2024
  • His feed is bleak, full of posts about America in decline.
    Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 24 Sep. 2024
  • But the timber industry in the Tongass has been in decline.
    Riley Rogerson, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Aug. 2023
  • Nevertheless, in the rust belt of the North East, factories were already in decline and thefts were on the rise.
    Patrick Frater, Variety, 22 Oct. 2023
  • Life in Cuba is hard, and the National Ballet has long been in decline.
    Jennifer Homans, The New Yorker, 14 Aug. 2024
  • As that conflict had died down, the total number of conflict deaths had been in decline.
    Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 29 June 2023
  • Their numbers in the wild are in decline, and breeding areas are threatened.
    Karen Kucher, The Mercury News, 13 Oct. 2024
  • By then, Black radio and retail outlets had been in decline for years.
    Danielle Amir Jackson Malike Sidibe, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2023
  • But those problems come back to a business model in decline.
    Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Sep. 2023
  • This was driven by fears, shared by some Americans, that the United States was in decline.
    Russell Flannery, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Americans since the day of the founding have worried their country is in decline.
    Elliot Kaufman, wsj.com, 14 May 2023
  • That should be music to shareholder’s ears at a time when media stocks have been in decline.
    Jeff Valdez, Variety, 20 July 2024
  • At the same time as unemployment among the youth is rising, their mental health is in decline.
    Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 21 June 2024
  • Among the findings: Half of American adults believe our state is in decline.
    Joe Mathews, The Mercury News, 30 Mar. 2024
  • So far, the popular case that trade is in decline looks like an overstatement.
    Kristine Gill, Fortune, 3 Sep. 2024
  • By the time Pease began his whaling career, the industry was in decline.
    James Hagengruber, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 June 2023
  • Through the first half of the year, China was the company’s only major market where orders were in decline.
    David J. Lynch, Washington Post, 4 Sep. 2023
  • Democrats pretended for more than three years that President Joe Biden’s health wasn’t in decline.
    Michelle Jefferson, Baltimore Sun, 5 Aug. 2024
  • This is a story of survival, persistence and, perhaps in some ways, dumb luck—a tree in decline that was rescued and whose seeds were sent to other places.
    Daniel Lewis, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Mar. 2024
  • Honda The global auto show might be in decline, but at least fans of futuristic cars still have CES.
    Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 9 Jan. 2024
  • Wolfe downgrades Vale to underperform from peer perform Wolfe said in its downgrade of the metals and mining company that iron ore demand is in decline.
    Michael Bloom, CNBC, 9 Oct. 2024

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