Example Sentences

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"Unless you strike very quickly and find that money… your chances of it being brought back into the legitimate system have to be decreasingly positive," he said.

From BBC • Feb. 21, 2026

It seems decreasingly ironic the more we hear it.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 24, 2025

This year, a crew member walkout is looking decreasingly likely.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 29, 2024

After 50 years during which cheap labor made China the world’s “manufacturing engine,” Chinese labor is increasingly expensive and decreasingly abundant.

From Washington Post • Aug. 17, 2022

The division in the two tubes that resulted was very plain: the centre tube was white in colour, while the tube that surrounded it was decreasingly green as it approached the inner wall.

From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel