- present participle of dwindle.
dwindling
Example Sentences
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In return, he left us a sublime body of work, one that languished in astonishing critical neglect until the mid-19th and early-20th centuries, the result of a dwindling taste for monastic and devotional art.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
Mothers and fathers nationwide are alarmed by dwindling recess time and calling upon school administrators to restore it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
The Japanese parliament has approved a bill to relax imperial succession rules, amid concerns over the dwindling size of the imperial family.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
When Sheikh Hamad took power 31 years ago Qatar was struggling for money with its oil reserves dwindling.
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026
It was a small room, with a window that overlooked the dwindling, somewhat neglected rubber plantation that Reverend E. John Ipe had bought from a neighbor.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
Vocabulary lists containing dwindling
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The Pecan Sheller
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