Sentence examples for I dwindled from inspiring English sources

Between the attacks of cancer and the counterattacks of chemo, I dwindled to a scarred, mute no man's land.

But flexibility is hinted at in Lording Barry's play Ram Alley (1608), where a character says: "I dwindle as a new player does at a plague bill certified 40".

The kind of parts I want dwindled dramatically after I turned 40 – I didn't escape the fate of actresses in Hollywood.

I remarked that she was looking well, and she said, "I've dwindled a bit.

"James Lasdun is probably hard at work writing yet another sadistic tale about me," she writes in a letter to Lasdun's department head, "knowing that I had dwindled down to 98 pounds after he and his evil witches... deceived and stole from me — and after I'd been raped by a colleague at a magazine while writing my book in a three-month period".

Upset because it was, after all, my nickel, and protective because I did think that he was a great man, in his way, and I hated to see him dwindling: I wondered how long he would go on if he sensed that he was dwindling.

My respect for him dwindled as I viewed his need to see other women less as a political stance than simply his sexual overdrive combined with a lack of impulse control.

"In the past 20 years I've noticed it dwindling.

I'm not sure about you, but I'm the kind of woman who has been socially conditioned to need all men to find me attractive, all of the time, as though without their lust I'd dwindle away to nothing but a pube with tiny, unloved breasts.

I'm not sure about you, but I'm one of those women who has been socially conditioned to need all men to find me attractive, all of the time, as though without their lust I'd dwindle away to nothing but a pair of tiny, unloved breasts.

As Britain's World War I veterans have dwindled, the survivors have become celebrities, appearing at remembrance day ceremonies in London's Whitehall each year.