Sample Sentences forwane (editor-reviewed)
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When the headlines moved on to other topics, public interest waned and only the companies being regulated paid attention to what was happening.waned = gradually decreased
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The moon was waning, but I could still see the trail.waning = diminishing (less of it was visible)
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Their passion waned over the years, but their love continued to grow.waned = gradually decreased
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Piper tried to respond, but her confidence started to wane. (source)wane = decline (grow weaker)
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In the waning moonlight I saw Jem swing his feet to the floor. (source)waning = diminishing
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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
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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)
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All things wax and wane, even Nyx's children, her vampyres. (source)
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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
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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.
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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)
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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)
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Sleep came not near my couch—while the hours ... waned away. (source)waned = gradually declined
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The walls could fall away, even the whole city, and the brightness of that feeling would not wane.† (source)
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"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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meaning too rare to warrant focus
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I could lay claim to a log and make bad jokes, contribute gossip, wax and wane about group politics.
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wane = wax and wane is an idiom meaning to speak at length with varying degrees of intensity
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