Sentence examples for a shrinking quantity from inspiring English sources

This concept is closely related to one called "decoupling," which suggests that the growing efficiency of machines has weakened the link between energy use and economic activity, and also to the idea of "decarbonization," which holds that, for similar reasons, every dollar we spend represents a shrinking quantity of greenhouse gas.

Staring out from under a wiry thicket of eyebrows, he would rummage in his desk drawer and comment caustically on its contents, compare the shrinking quantities of coffee tins, ruminate on the existence of God – he was an agnostic – or mock the absurdities of the politically correct.

That is a shrinking pool.

And a shrinking cow at that.

And the antithesis of a shrinking violet.

Hope is a shrinking refuge.

A shrinking giant.

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It's a shrinking proposition.

A shrinking job market exacerbated this pressure.

A shrinking middle class.