Sentence examples for world dwindled from inspiring English sources

The world dwindled down to the mattress on which I lay and sometimes howled.

But economists saw some good news in the larger deficit, which had narrowed in recent months as the volume of trade between the United States and the rest of the world dwindled.

With his power in the world dwindling, Arnold became more of a dick at home.

The abiding sense is of humankind's place in the world dwindling to nothing, like the fade-out on a record; beyond the immediate horizon, there is nothing but nature at its most sparse.

As with many inmates in prison, communication with the outside world dwindles over the years of incarceration.

And Britain's weight in the world has dwindled, as have its defence budgets.

After the Opium Wars, when Britain invaded China and forced open its borders to British goods on unequal terms, China's share of the world economy dwindled from 35% to an all-time low of 7%.

Helping Hospitalized Children Smile Susan Katz knows about postsurgical depression, when it seems a hospital room will be your home forever and the world has dwindled to a small circle of faces.

Yet the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, which categorizes leopards as "near threatened" on its so-called red list of species, says that leopard populations have become extinct in some parts of the world and dwindled to tiny numbers in others.

America's role as the upholder of order in key regions of the world will dwindle, and the world will become a more dangerous place.

The disappointments of Nasa, the failure to return to the moon, the absence of bases on Mars – it seems that humanity's appetite for new worlds has dwindled, our courage failed.