We found 24 examples of how to use diminished in an English sentence.
Sentences 1 to 24 of 24.
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| 1. | Even the most graceful and imposing existing buildings may now be so sadly diminished as to seem slightly ridiculous beside the monster. | |
| 2. | Recently, the dignity and importance of the Japanese father has diminished. | |
| 3. | The war diminished the wealth of the country. | |
| 4. | Age diminished his strength. | |
| 5. | His income was diminished by half after retirement. | |
| 6. | His sense of guilt was diminished. | |
| 7. | A great Empire, like a great Cake, is most easily diminished at the Edges. | |
| 8. | Because Lee was injured, the strength of the Stars has greatly diminished. | |
| 9. | Even if malicious gossip is being circulated around someone, it doesn't necessarily mean that the value of that person will be diminished. | |
| 10. | As time passed, the radioactivity diminished. | |
| 11. | The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened. | |
| 12. | Even the wealth of the wide sea will be diminished if the cloud that has drawn its waters up does not give them back again in rain. | |
| 13. | Our influence has diminished enormously. | |
| 14. | Where there is suffering, there is duty. Americans in need are not strangers, they are citizens, not problems, but priorities. And all of us are diminished when any are hopeless. | |
| 15. | No person's gain in wisdom is diminished by anyone else's gain. | |
| 16. | Sami and Layla's sex life diminished. | |
| 17. | Those with dementia have a diminished capacity for language. | |
| 18. | Thus, although their mutual affection seemed to increase rather than to be diminished as their characters opened more fully on each other, the feelings of each were mingled with some less agreeable ingredients. | |
| 19. | And the overseers of the works, and the taskmasters, went out and said to the people: Thus saith Pharaoh: I allow you no straw; go, and gather it where you can find it; neither shall any thing of your work be diminished. | |
| 20. | And the officers of the children of Israel saw that they were in evil case, because it was said to them: There shall not a whit be diminished of the bricks for every day. | |
| 21. | Enthusiasm for lunar flights had diminished greatly. By the time Apollo 13 came around, I think the only mention in The New York Times was on page 67 of the weather page, because everyone had forgotten. | |
| 22. | The diminished seventh chord has the property that it is enharmonically reinterpretable. | |
| 23. | When wearing glasses, my hand-eye coordination is considerably diminished. | |
| 24. | Slenderly, languidly, their hands set lightly on their hips, the two young women preceded us out onto a rosy-colored porch, open toward the sunset, where four candles flickered on the table in the diminished wind. |