Sample Sentences for
wane
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  • Piper tried to respond, but her confidence started to wane.  (source)
    wane = decline (grow weaker)
  • In the waning moonlight I saw Jem swing his feet to the floor.  (source)
    waning = diminishing
  • His excitement waned a little.  (source)
    waned = diminished (grew weaker)
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  • It was dusk, and there were only a few minutes left of waning gray light.  (source)
    waning = diminishing
  • So the bulk of the earning came from our garage-door business, and that income waxed and waned with the seasons.  (source)
    waned = a gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number)
  • All things wax and wane, even Nyx's children, her vampyres.  (source)
  • And so, as July wanes on, I am forced from my attic bedroom to a cot on the screened back porch.  (source)
    wanes = has its remaining days diminish
  • But all the witcheries of that unwaning weather did not merely lend new spells and potencies to the outward world.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unwaning means not and reverses the meaning of waning. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
  • Soothed again, but only soothed to deeper gloom, Ahab, who had sterned off from the whale, sat intently watching his final wanings from the now tranquil boat.†  (source)
  • The winds broke up the grey clouds, and a waning moon appeared above the hills between the flying rags.  (source)
    waning = diminishing (the illuminated part is getting smaller each night)
  • Sleep came not near my couch—while the hours ... waned away.  (source)
    waned = gradually declined
  • The walls could fall away, even the whole city, and the brightness of that feeling would not wane.†  (source)
  • "We thought about marriage," she said. "How can you not when you live together for four years? But you know what? Over time, passion wanes, differences don't."  (source)
    wanes = gradually decreases
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I could lay claim to a log and make bad jokes, contribute gossip, wax and wane about group politics.  (source)
wane = wax and wane is an idiom meaning to speak at length with varying degrees of intensity
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