Example Sentences

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Churchill returned to 10 Downing Street in 1951, defying the diminishment of British power and his own declining health for four years.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 13, 2026

The rapid diminishment in quality of life described by residents represents another setback in city leaders’ attempts to provide long-term stability to one of the region’s largest portfolios of homeless housing.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 5, 2024

In it, she traces the roots of women’s tendency to apologize for their ailing or unruly bodies to centuries of diminishment by the medical establishment.

From New York Times • Feb. 26, 2024

Founding-era dictionaries define abridging as a reduction or diminishment.

From Slate • Oct. 13, 2023

My own thoughts now turn to the last few months, the sight of my grandfather’s diminishment, the awkwardness between us as I grew taller than him and he seemed to shrink into himself, into age.

From "Every Day" by David Levithan