diminish

In a sentence

Six example sentences with diminish, each labelled with its topic.

• As the wetland was drained, the frog chorus began to diminish until summer nights fell almost silent within a decade.

  Environment

• Each new competitor on the route diminished the airline's pricing power until tickets cost half what they had five years earlier.

  Economics

• Hold the final chord and let the volume diminish slowly, so the hall goes quiet before anyone thinks to applaud.

  Music

• The star's minutes diminished as the playoffs neared, since the coach wanted fresh legs for the second round.

  Basketball

• Inflation will diminish the real value of that savings account by a third over the next fifteen years.

  Finance

• The fear of the dog diminished with each calm visit, until the child could pat it without flinching.

  Psychology

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More Academic words

• labored
• erode
• panelled
• unambiguous
• consenting
• dissipate
• demonstrative
• correlate
• denote
• saturate
• aerosol
• stabilised