dwindled; dwindling
ˈdwin-(d)liŋ 
-dᵊl-iŋ
: to become steadily less : shrink
Their savings dwindled to nothing.
a dwindling population
: to make steadily less
Examples of dwindle in a Sentence
Our energy dwindled as the meeting dragged on.
The town's population is dwindling away.
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That care, however, dwindled into neglect in the final months of the woman's life as the two pocketed thousands of dollars and supported a drug habit, according to prosecutors.
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Logan Smith, CBS News, 8 Feb. 2026
In February 2023, Stellantis idled the assembly plant near Rockford and laid off its last 1,200 workers after halting production of the Cherokee amid dwindling sales.
—Robert Channick, Chicago Tribune, 7 Feb. 2026
The Tuesday selloff, turbocharged by Anthropic’s new legal AI tool, also sent the already dwindling fortunes of software billionaires to tumble even harder.
—Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 6 Feb. 2026
The researchers hypothesize that the sunbirds on the mainland might have dwindled at some point in the last few million years, and such a decline may have prompted the lipstick vines to evolve and branch out to other pollinators.
—Taylor Nicioli, CNN Money, 6 Feb. 2026
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Logan Smith, CBS News, 8 Feb. 2026
In February 2023, Stellantis idled the assembly plant near Rockford and laid off its last 1,200 workers after halting production of the Cherokee amid dwindling sales.
—Robert Channick, Chicago Tribune, 7 Feb. 2026
The Tuesday selloff, turbocharged by Anthropic’s new legal AI tool, also sent the already dwindling fortunes of software billionaires to tumble even harder.
—Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 6 Feb. 2026
The researchers hypothesize that the sunbirds on the mainland might have dwindled at some point in the last few million years, and such a decline may have prompted the lipstick vines to evolve and branch out to other pollinators.
—Taylor Nicioli, CNN Money, 6 Feb. 2026
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“Dwindle.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dwindle. Accessed 14 Feb. 2026.
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