All 5 Uses of
dwindle
in
Childhood's End
- It faded swiftly away Into a banshee wail, an ululation that dwindled and died, yet was repeated a moment later from a more distant source.†
Chpt 11 *
- He watched until it had dwindled to a thin thread of blue, hard for the eye to focus upon in the surrounding redness of the sky.†
Chpt 22
- The ship was driving into Earth's great cone of shadow: the gleaming crescent dwindled, shrank to a burning bow of fire, and winked out of existence.†
Chpt 22
- There is something that you can do for us…… " The glare"of the Stardrive dwindled and died, somewhere out there beyond the orbit of Mars.†
Chpt 24
- No-one dared disturb him or interrupt his thoughts: and presently he turned his back upon the dwindling Sun.†
Chpt 24
Definition:
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(dwindle) to decrease -- in count or substance