dwindle

Still, others argue that preserving snow days is the least schools can do to keep at least one of the dwindling number of school-year rituals intact.

After two decades of dwindling influence, NATO is refreshed and energized by the growing threat on its eastern flank.

In Wild Ones, you talk about the dwindling numbers of several species.

They can exacerbate splits within a ruling leadership, foment popular unrest, or expedite a dwindling current account.

Think thirtysomething single women are the only ones stressed about their dwindling options for marriage and kids?

The yakuza are dwindling from public view: it will be a long time before they are really gone---if ever.

She was dwindling rapidly in visual size; relative to me, she was receding, falling upon the Moon.

But they still clung to the dwindling Swamp, for it was their home and they were loath to move to foreign parts.

The ground beneath them seemed in rapid motion, coming towards them from all directions, and dwindling away beneath their feet.

Its perspective, dwindling to nothingness, corrected the deceit of the clear air.

"Jeames" was still a target, but a dwindling target of Punch's satire.