Sentence examples for sliding into decline from inspiring English sources

Given the intensity of his childhood love of theater, it's understandable why Rich never quite forgave Broadway for sliding into decline -- one might say for having abandoned him -- at just the moment he triumphantly arrived on the scene as critic.

Built more than 100 years ago as an inn, the Light House went through changes that reflected the times, going from a bathing resort in its heyday in the 1920's to 1940's to a disco in the 1980's before sliding into decline.

Phillip Blond, director of ResPublica, said: "For decades we've watched England's cities sliding into decline.

For years Long Beach was a summer playground and then beginning in the 1960's, it started to slide into decline.

When Woods' game slides into decline, it doesn't hold firm in any kind of middle ground.

But like all the others it was watered down when the economy deteriorated and the public sector slid into decline during the late 1960s.

As Philadelphia began losing its industrial base in the 1920's, the waterfront slid into decline, with large industrial sites blighting the landscape, Professor Licht said.

TOYOTA CITY, Japan — For years, Toyota City prospered along with the giant carmaker that shares its name, growing into a global automotive manufacturing center as its official sister city, Detroit, slid into decline.

The Granata's four remaining opponents fielded youth teams of their own as a mark of respect, allowing them to finish top of the table in any case, but thereafter they slid into decline.

During the next decade, as the city slid into decline and mayhem, he defended it against its many critics, comparing them, as "they cackle with glee," to "blue-bottle flies settling on carrion, buzzing with delight".

He arrived at Picture Post with the departure of Tom Hopkinson, when the magazine slid into decline with editors coming and, rapidly, going, but Hopkins's slim, neat figure and his scholarly air enhanced by thick-lensed spectacles seemed the epitome of conscientious professionalism.