15 collocations for dwindle
Fenwick's letters dwindled again to post-cards, and then almost ceased.
Full well I feel it now; lost and undone, From truth and goodness banished far away, I dwindle day by day.
For after being accustomed to the sight of these people for some time, I really began to imagine myself dwindled many degrees below my usual size.
They make their student-years but a pretext for a life of rough debauchery, from which they issue with a bought diploma; and, in many cases, satiated and disgusted with their own lives, they dwindle down into the timeserving reactionaries, the worst enemies of free development, because they themselves have abused in youth the little liberty they enjoyed.
The stress of perpetual worry was upon them, of dwindling funds and the anxious search for work that would not come.
Thus as I sat, the fire, which had not been replenished for a while, dwindled steadily until it gave but a dullish glow around.
It is still being fed with dwindling hopes of victory, no longer unstinted hopes, but still hopesby a sort of political bread-card system.
" We set to work then in the roaring, steaming valley with the vapour swirling about us, sometimes concealing us, sometimes half revealing us gigantic, again in the utterness of exposure showing us dwindled pigmies against the magnitudes about us.
The tilled land grew less and with it dwindled the free population and the recruiting field for the army.
Unable to adapt himself, he would see the Mansion's stable become a noisome garage, while he performed humble and gradually dwindling service to a few remaining horses.
It was nothing to them that every now and again the house above them shook and quivered to the shock of a heavy shell exploding somewhere on the ground round the house, that the rattle of rifle fire dwindled away at times to separate and scattered shots, brisked up again and rose to a long roll, the devil's tattoo of the machine guns rattling through it with exactly the sound a boy makes running a stick rapidly along a railing.
The mesa holds very level here, cut across at intervals by the deep washes of dwindling streams, and its treeless spaces uncramp the soul.
And there were letters to be written for sick boys and dying boys and dead boys; there was tea and lemonade and whisky and wine to be measured out and given; there was broth to be ordered and tasted and watched, delicacies to be prepared; clothing to be boiled; inventories to be made of dwindling medical supplies and of fresh stores to be ordered or unpacked from the pyramids of muddy boxes and barrels in the courts.
Swiftly his body dwindled, shrinking to a dwarf, an antlike thing, a black dot.
They pushed good-naturedly here and there, expostulating, calling to one another facetiously, looking anxiously down the straight, dwindling track for the first glimpse of the locomotive.