Sentence examples for population dwindled from inspiring English sources

But the population dwindled as the mines shut down.

Vermont's under-18 population dwindled by 14 percent.

The village remained dirt poor, its population dwindled to 600 from 4,000 and many houses fell to ruin.

In the mid-seventeenth century, though, the Shinnecock population dwindled, when new diseases came ashore with the colonists.

"This one was a good experiment," he said, noting that as the neighborhood's white population dwindled and its black population increased, many synagogues were being transformed into churches.

Devastated by Peruvian slaving raids and a smallpox epidemic, their population dwindled to as low as 111 before Chile annexed the island, imposing austere military rule for decades.

In harsh winters, the moose population dwindles to a few hundred, with the wolves dropping to around a dozen.

The plant has also fallen victim to invasive Italian ryegrass, its population dwindling to a few hundred plants by 2008.

But the notion that lefties have a shorter life span stems largely from a popular 1991 study that found that their proportion in the population dwindles with age.

But similar to the case of Venice, real estate is no longer affordable to middle-class dwellers, and so this population dwindles.

With its population dwindling more rapidly than that of any other industrialized country, Japan has begun to debate the extent to which it will need to attract people from abroad to work here.