Sentence Examples

1. After a few fraught minutes, the footsteps gradually diminished and the thieves and Tarkyn resumed their manoeuvres in the dark into the adjoining room.
2. One of the buildings stood out from the others, not only for the diminished damage it had taken in whatever befell Nostromos, but for the massive white tarps laid out in front.
3. My distance from the moon was comparatively trifling, while the labor required by the condenser was diminished not at all, and I could discover no indication whatever of a decreasing rarity in the air.
4. Alongside Celestino, who has an exceptional talent of his own, Fernando must feel diminished.
5. In journeying eastward he had gone towards the sun, and the days therefore diminished for him as many times four minutes as he crossed degrees in this direction.
6. On the fourteenth this had greatly diminished on the fifteenth a still more remarkable decrease was observable and, on retiring on the night of the sixteenth, I had noticed an angle of no more than about seven degrees and fifteen minutes.
7. Blake whimpered a little at first, but eventually his tears diminished, and he closed his eyes while smiling like he was having a pleasant dream.
8. Many of the black hats disappeared, and the greater part of the crowd seemed to have diminished in height.
9. The difficulty of breathing, however, was diminished in a very slight degree, and I found that it would soon be positively necessary to make use of my condenser.
10. He drew on his own diminished strength and let it flow into the injured woodman.