Sentence examples for an agonizing decline from inspiring English sources

Not long after the socialists' victory, the authors write, the illness strengthened its grip, leading to an agonizing decline and, in 1924, his death.

Would her children's final memory of her be of a long, agonizing decline?

I will crawl a slow, agonizing decline to suicide.

The joyful shrieks and the clanging cowbells fell silent that night, signaling a long and agonizing decline for a team, a city and its loyal boosters.

The housing market, which had been in a protracted and agonizing decline, seems to have bottomed.

But given the performance of Russian and Ecuadorean bonds, some finance ministers may now find default more attractive than going through an agonizing economic decline like Argentina's.

It's unsurprising, therefore, that the first fictional work to take the newspaper industry's agonizing decline as its backdrop is a mystery, nor that its author, Michael Connelly, is a onetime crime reporter who spent the last years of his print career at the Los Angeles Times.

Thus began GM's long, agonizing decline in market share, from 48.3% in the 1960s, to 18.1% for the first 9 months of 2012.

With no medical care within a two-day walk, he faced a long and painful decline in his final hours or days, an agonizing postponement of the inevitable.

It was an agonizing feeling".

It was an agonizing decision".