Sentence Examples

1. For examples of the second sort of lineage, that began with greatness and maintains it still without adding to it, there are the many princes who have inherited the dignity, and maintain themselves in their inheritance, without increasing or diminishing it, keeping peacefully within the limits of their states.
2. The English Government has succeeded in greatly diminishing these murders, though the Thuggees still exist, and pursue the exercise of their horrible rites.
3. And the throbbing in her knee was diminishing too .
4. The day had been perfect, their nervousness diminishing after the first hour.
5. Fogg had already spent more than five thousand pounds on the way, and the percentage of the sum recovered from the bank robber promised to the detectives, was rapidly diminishing.
6. They were in a small and diminishing island within a sea of moving scree.
7. Among them, unable to ignore the diminishing doubt, Thorer focused his stare on the Dokkalfr.
8. The diseases they were subject to still continue, without increasing or diminishing.
9. The time Rick had forced answers out of her using his strange mind-controlling powers kept her from diminishing their distance.
10. Diminishing shades of red and pink, the only evidence left of the attack, trailed from his hardened face down his neck and vanished beneath his tunic.