Sentence examples for diminution are from inspiring English sources

The days and nights bleached out by boredom and diminution are more visible on the faces of others — in their measured gestures, in their silly and furtive little jokes.... Just as before, he neglects to notice the minute changes in products, prices, jargon — the mute subtexts of everyday life, the gray fog into which more and more of them are vanishing...

The days and nights bleached out by boredom and diminution are more visible on the faces of others — in their measured gestures, in their silly and furtive little jokes.... Just as before, he neglects to notice the minute changes in products, prices, jargon — the mute subtexts of everyday life, the gray fog into which more and more of them are vanishing..

In Epistle 4 the Ikhwân present a cyclical conception of ruling dynasties, and state that "the dynasty of the evil reached its apex", hence only decline and diminution are to be expected in future.

Whether this per capita diminution is compatible with the statute is the question here.

Mr. Gandolfini shows us a big man deflated, and his sudden physical diminution is a shock to the movie's system.

Tetraethylammonium (10 mM) did not restore the diminished phosphoinositide hydrolysis after 24-hr exposure to LPS, suggesting that the diminution is not due to K+ channel activation.

Her doctor, Oliver Sacks, told her he thought the images' diminution was a good sign: "perhaps one day Kermit would be too small to see at all".

But his diminution is also, more importantly, an impediment to understanding our current malaise as a nation, and how much better things might have been had today's America turned out less Reaganite and more Humphreyish.

Only after wining and dining Paulson in the White House residence was the Bush team able to "hammer home its argument that reports of the Treasury Department's diminution were exaggerated".

But this accurately scaled diminution is essential to the final goal, which is to link the micro-organs together and monitor their interactions — resulting in the Body-on-a-Chip, as the European Union grandly puts it.

A complete recovery of modulus means that the modulus diminution is due to a reversible phenomenon however a partial recovery of modulus notifies the presence of nonreversible phenomenon (such as damage).