Sentence examples for declined something from inspiring English sources

They said his performance had declined – something not convincingly reflected in his statistics – but he had also become something football organizations hate: a distraction.

I declined; something about his face reminded me of Christopher Walken.

Although couched in terms that would allow a child to decline, something like a Miranda warning, there's no guarantee that preteenage children or adolescents would understand or exercise that option.

The banks, and Société Générale especially, suspect that their shares have come under attack from speculators betting that the share price will decline — something that the government decided to investigate last month when the stock of Société Générale fell 21 percent in a single trading day before recovering.

But don't think that just because you decline something now, that the chance is necessarily gone for good.

Now, Facebook admits that organic reach is declining, something it blames on the fact that there's just so much content (not to mention the fact that more and more businesses are building a presence on the site).

Despite the organism's ability to survive in harsh conditions, scientists believe the seagrass is nevertheless declining, something scientists blame on global climate change.

She said, 'I have to submit a special request to the manager, because I was told there was one box in the back that we all need to share.' " Ms. Lee said, "Why not buy your own?" But the woman declined, saying something about it being the company's responsibility.

She politely declined, saying something about how their privacy protections make it impossible for her to single my sample out.

If the record industry is to halt or reverse its decline, something new is needed.

The chief reason, I believe, is because enough people in Britain believe that she has succeeded in arresting and even reversing the country's economic decline - something that had begun to seem almost unthinkable by the 1970's.