All 5 Uses of
dwindle
in
The Martian Chronicles
- He was in the room another five minutes but never again addressed the solemn quartet that stood with heads down, their heavy legs sagging, the light dwindling from their eyes.†
Chpt 4
- And this disease was called The Loneliness, because when you saw your home town dwindle the size of your fist and then lemon-size and then pin-size and vanish in the fire-wake, you felt you had never been born, there was no town, you were nowhere, with space all around, nothing familiar, only other strange men.†
Chpt 8
- Its six legs fell upon the ancient highway with the sounds of a sparse rain which dwindled away, and from the back of the machine a Martian with melted gold for eyes looked down at Tomas as if he were looking into a well.†
Chpt 11
- It burned with an unholy dripping glare for a minute, three times normal size, then dwindled.†
Chpt 21
- They dwindled down to a couple in the last few years.
Chpt 26 *dwindled = decreased
Definition:
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(dwindle) to decrease -- in count or substance