Example Sentences

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Just let it go and hope this guy’s popularity will have dwindled by the time he is grown so that it’s not a problem?

From Slate • Jul. 31, 2018

You can also stay out on your adventure between stages, though your resources will have dwindled and your items degraded, so it’s a risk.

From Forbes • Aug. 2, 2013

Through normal attrition, the government hopes the Legion will have dwindled to 125,000 in ten years.

From Time Magazine Archive

By 1985 the high school age group will have dwindled by an estimated 15% to 30%, and the downtrend is likely to continue at least until 1990.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the year 1984 our 1,000,000 babies with which we started in 1889 will have dwindled to an insignificant 223 helpless old wrecks, 'stranded on the shores of time.'

From Health, Happiness, and Longevity Health without medicine: happiness without money: the result, longevity by McCarty, Louis Philippe