Sentences with decline
de·cline
D d - The number of staff has declined from 217,000 to 114,000. [VERB + from]
- He declined their invitation. [VERB noun]
- This is part 4 of the 8 part essay about socio- economic decline in developed countries leading to lower wages.
- This is a huge decline from a year or two ago when comparable CDs were.
- There wasn't such a big decline in enrollments after all. [+ in]
- Demand has declined over the years
- The luckier ones are still on life support, but the vast majority has undergone a silent decline and painful demise.
- Coffee prices on the future market continue to decline and the price for coffee from the local farmers in the third world countries.
- The day is declining
- I must decline your offer
- Have you noticed a decline in your.
- Decline implies courtesy in expressing one's nonacceptance of an invitation, proposal, etc. [he declined the nomination]; refuse1 is a more direct, sometimes even blunt term, implying an emphatic denial of a request, demand, etc. [to refuse a person money]; reject stresses a negative or antagonistic attitude and implies positive refusal to accept, use, believe, etc. [they rejected the damaged goods]; repudiate implies the disowning, disavowal, or casting off with condemnation of a person or thing as having no authority, worth, validity, truth, etc. [to repudiate the claims of faith healers]; to spurn is to refuse or reject with contempt or disdain [she spurned his attentions]
- The decline of life
- He declined to say more about it.
- To decline an invitation; to decline an offer.
- We sent him an invitation but he declined.
- The hill declines to the lake.
- The sun declined in the skies.
- To decline in popularity.
- A decline in the stock market.
- The decline of the Roman Empire.
- After his seventieth birthday he went into a decline.
- He became an editor in the decline of his life.
- In an era when political leaders promise deliverance from decline through America’s purported preeminence in scientific research, the news that science is in deep trouble in the United States has been as unwelcome as a diagnosis of leukemia following the loss of health insurance.
- The dollar has declined rapidly since 2001.
- My health declined in winter.
- A line that declines from straightnessconduct that declines from sound morals