Sentence examples for diminished day from inspiring English sources

He often went to buy tools with which to repair the ranch house, but he also passed the time of day chatting with the gardener, or with the keepers of the general store and the hardware store, whose livelihoods he diminished day by day, as he lengthened the accounts he had with each of them.

WASHINGTON — The prospect of an imminent federal government shutdown diminished Friday as House Republicans proposed a carefully calibrated stopgap measure that Democrats said could be acceptable.

The shelling diminished Sunday, but it still killed eight people and wounded 38, according to a rebel spokesman in Misurata, reached by Internet telephone and identified only as Mohammed for his security.

They had initially been interested in Raúl Ibáñez, but the attraction diminished Tuesday and Wednesday, when it became clear that the Mariners would not budge from what the Mets viewed as an exorbitant price.

As they grew old, both continued to live in Montreal, which Barney described as "a city that, like me, is diminishing day by day".

"There is a huge gulf between what Winnie dreamt her life would be and what it's becoming – diminishing day by day," she says.

Traditional occupations based on the seasonal crop patterns of kharif 2, kharif 1, and robi are diminishing day by day.

The dispute — which was rapidly emerging as a divide between Egypt's secularists and political Islamists — showed no sign of diminishing Saturday, raising questions about Egypt's fragile democratic transition.

Quantitative PCR at various time points after arthritis induction showed that IL-17 mRNA expression was already upregulated at day 1, increased even more at day 2 and day 7, and clearly diminished at day 21.

Levels of intracellular galectin-1 protein were measured by both WB and IF; galectin-1 was effectively diminished from day 5 to day 9 post-transfection in U87 cells and in Hs683 cells in comparison with control and scramble-transfected cells.

Co-expression relationships with Hes1 were diminished at day 4 relative to day 0 (Fig.  3d).