Dwindling
dwindling (adjective) - becoming smaller, weaker, and less in number
dwindling sales
concerned about dwindling sales
dwindling income
supplement dwindling income
dwindling audiences
dwindling readership
dwindling numbers
dwindling population
dwindling market share
experience dwindling market shares
dwindling supplies
a dwindling surplus
dwindling current-account surplus
dwindling of business confidence
vulnerable to dwindling business confidence
dwindling reserves
dwindling orders
dwindling stocks
dwindling in importance
dwindling traffic
dwndling offers
dwindling offers of work
dwindling research
dwindling research funds
dwindling funds
dwindling resources
dwindling down to a skeleton staff
dwindling patience
dwindling business activity
Example sentences:
* The company has experienced dwindling market shares in recent years.
* "The elephant is widely distributed over much of Asia though the population is dwindling."
* "His patience was dwindling and for the first time in four years of marriage she could see he was on the point of losing his temper."
* How can we explain our dwindling numbers?
* "There were even some farmers still to be found, though everywhere they were dwindling in importance."
* "The audience for televised baseball is dwindling."
* "The company hopes to supplement its dwindling income from its flagship product with revenue from new products currently under development."
* "Publishers are concerned about dwindling hardback sales but the real problem is that the price of most hardbacks deters people from buying them."
* "A creative Filipino chemist has invented a `;wonder fuel'; named Siroca which she hopes will decrease her country's dependence on dwindling supplies of firewood."
* "Indonesia's dwindling reserves of virgin rainforest are becoming a concern."
* "Rising incomes and growing demand were pulling in more imports as labour shortages constrained output, threatening the dwindling current-account surplus and placing future growth in doubt."
* "The country's limited private sector made it less vulnerable to the dwindling of business confidence which affected other countries in the region."
* "The show ended with dwindling audiences and a critical drubbing."
* "I was aware of the fact that there had been what seemed like 20 people working in the office and then it was suddenly dwindling down to a skeleton staff."
* "The cost and dwindling resources of uranium no longer made the nuclear power plant commercially worthwhile."
* "The importance of this kind of service may in any event be dwindling."
* "The dwindling traffic of commercial boats spells further doom to the industry."
* "There was general unemployment in the country which in turn affected the attendance of audiences so offers of work were dwindling."
* "In these days of dwindling research funds and increased competition, what better way of disposing of rivals than by characterising papers or proposals as so much chaff?"
* "Fishermen have seen first-hand the decline of grasses: the disappearance of the shad and trout and the dwindling number of striped bass, blue crab and oyster."
* "The committee's successors decided that the increase in pupils needed better amenities than the dwindling funds could provide."
* "The survey, of 300 London firms, showed that the level of consultancy, investment and other business activities is dwindling and that many firms think that insolvency work has passed its peak."
* "There wasn't enthusiasm from the young people to join these days, and the dwindling numbers had rendered it impossible to carry on the business any longer.'
* "The only function of the magazine seemed to be promoting the image of its Soviet paymasters and flattering its dwindling readership of old age pensioners and trade-union officials."
* "The Green manifesto calls for drastic measures to eke out the earth's dwindling resources and reduce pollution."
