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  • Instead, he found his influence waning with each passing day.†   (source)
    waning = declining or diminishing
  • But as the day waned, Sylvia still watched the young man with loving admiration.   (source)
    waned = grew smaller
  • Sleep came not near my couch—while the hours ... waned away.   (source)
    waned = gradually declined
  • SUMMER WANED, SEEMING TO evaporate in its own heat.†   (source)
  • Chapter 51 — Waning Moon — 1970†   (source)
  • Her answer was sustained as the numbness of the dark waned and outlined the various shapes, big and small, on the bedside table.†   (source)
  • Since then, interest in the planet had waned dramatically.†   (source)
  • The fall waned and another Christmas approached, and Phil's family received none of them.†   (source)
  • And in the fireplace itself, in a black pan set on a high wire rack, peanuts roasted over the hickory fire as the waning light of day swiftly deepened into a fine velvet night speckled with white forerunners of a coming snow, and the warm sound of husky voices and rising laughter mingled in tales of sorrow and happiness of days past but not forgotten.†   (source)
  • Girl children had their throats cut and their blood drained out to replenish the five waning moons, so they would not fade and disappear forever.†   (source)
  • After a while her eyes narrowed, then opened wide, then narrowed more, the liquid glint of them waxing and waning in the darkness.†   (source)
  • As it rose to its highest point, a great waning crescent moon descended slowly in the sky behind it.†   (source)
  • Our faculties wax and wane, our experiences accumulate, and our opinions evolve—if not glacially, then at least gradually.†   (source)
  • Paul's shock at the brazen lies had never waned.†   (source)
  • On the way back, Aziza's high-spirited fa9ade waned the closer they got to the orphanage.†   (source)
  • Teabing's look of excitement waned.†   (source)
  • As long as I take it in the week, preceding the full moon, I keep my mind when I transform.... I'm able to curl up in my office, a harmless wolf, and wait for the moon to wane again.†   (source)
  • The walls could fall away, even the whole city, and the brightness of that feeling would not wane.†   (source)
  • In his waning years— ever watchful that Gravesend Academy devote itself to "pious and charitable purposes"—the Rev. Mr. Hurd was known to patrol Water Street in downtown Gravesend, looking for youthful offenders: specifically, young men who would not doff their hats to him, and young ladies who would not curtsy.†   (source)
  • Nine moons had waxed and waned, and Robb had been born in Riverrun while his father still warred in the south.†   (source)
  • Not even birdsong breaks the silence, and overhead, the sky darkens, but not from the waning afternoon light.†   (source)
  • But the excitement soon waned, and the afternoon seemed to pass like any other at home.†   (source)
  • Dim streaks of light, gray and waning, are filtering in through a nearby window.†   (source)
  • The excitement of being somewhere other than school had started to wane.†   (source)
  • The intent look in his eyes, even in the waning light, warned her of what was coming.†   (source)
  • In the waning daylight, he kneels on the hard ground, pulls out the map, and points at our location with his flashlight.†   (source)
  • Forget me and thy magick shall wane.†   (source)
  • Consequently, the enthusiastic welcome of my teachers soon began to wane into resignation and a sort of vague, impersonal regret.†   (source)
  • In the waning light I can see a river curling gently around that seems to cup the city, serving as the border to the east, south and west, and to the north lie hills and trees.†   (source)
  • Light from Farthen Dur's opening waned as the sun crept below the crater rim.†   (source)
  • In fact, the walkout's strength had waned because of Alex's misinformation tactic.†   (source)
  • In the waning moments of twilight, Mack could make out the rocky shore of the lake, not overgrown as he remembered, but beautifully kept and picture perfect.†   (source)
  • "Expulsion repealed," the Chancellor said firmly and I felt Ambrose's satisfaction flicker and wane beside me.†   (source)
  • It is not a remarkable moon, waning, hazy in the cloudy night.†   (source)
  • She continues to work in the silent house, in the waning light, not bothering to rest, though her wrist has begun to ache, not bothering to get up and turn on the lamp over the table, or the lights on the lawn or in any of the other rooms, until the telephone rings.†   (source)
  • They play with her yearning to become one of them, taxing her energies until she begins to wane.†   (source)
  • Working nights is part of the job, but the chances for a column from Little Pedro's are waning, and all the extra time I'm spending on Nathaniel is time I don't get to spend with my family.†   (source)
  • I caught the sled as it went by and I think I tried to wane at him as we left in the dark.†   (source)
  • They stood side by side for a moment, watching the wax and wane of the coals of the fire.†   (source)
  • Maria knew that the massive strength of the newborn began to wane around the year mark, and she wanted to act while we were strong.†   (source)
  • Political pressure waned.†   (source)
  • Sarariman on subway listen For Sushi K like nuclear fission Fire-breathing lizard Cojiro He my always big-time hero His mutant rap burn down whole block Start investing now Sushi IC stock It on Nikkei stock exchange Waxes; other rappers wane Best investment, make my day Corporation Sushi K Squeaky is walking straight uphill, paralleling a fresh motorcycle track that has cut deeply into the loose yellow soil.†   (source)
  • Nonetheless, the public's interest quickly waned.†   (source)
  • But when the Cold War ended, financial and political support from Washington waned.†   (source)
  • The waning of the crack cocaine epidemic in New York was clearly a factor, but then again, it had been in steady decline well before crime dipped.†   (source)
  • But when no body was found and there was no breakthrough in the investigation, interest gradually waned.†   (source)
  • After two hours, when the conversation was beginning to wane, Amparo took advantage of Amaranta's distraction and gave Rebeca a letter.†   (source)
  • Jamis has been called by Him, by Shai-hulud, who has ordained the phases for the moons that daily wane and—in the end—appear as bent and withered twigs.†   (source)
  • They are sitting in the red wingback chairs in the living room in the waning light of late afternoon.†   (source)
  • "So I crossed my heart and hoped to die," Beck told me goodnaturedly as we stood in the blowing snow and waning light.†   (source)
  • As the winter of 1959 waned and the snow and ice melted, many miners who had been cut off the year before were called back to the mine.†   (source)
  • The minutes dragged by, and the conversation waned.†   (source)
  • The room was filled with a waning glow that turned all it touched to coral and gray.†   (source)
  • On the wall by the door he'd taped a paper that graphed the waning and disappearance of those terrifying episodes of apnea.†   (source)
  • Then, after about a month, the friendship waned.†   (source)
  • As the afternoon wanes, she and the silent Tanya take off for a 4:30 city bus.†   (source)
  • It moved around the sky; it waxed and waned.†   (source)
  • She smiled and jumped down the three waning steps to join him.†   (source)
  • The light was fading rapidly, but by its waning glow he could see Jeremiah's dead face turned toward him, blood still leaking from his open mouth.†   (source)
  • The time for warm-weather campaigning, "the season for action," was fast waning, yet even now he consoled himself with the hope that he had a few more days before the enemy would strike.†   (source)
  • He was depressed, but as he ate, his original desperation waned, lost its strength, and soon all that was left was melancholy.†   (source)
  • But there is some bitter condition he has never been able to name and when he encounters a threat from outside, from the moral wane that is everywhere in effect, he finds it is a balance to this state, a restoring force.†   (source)
  • Away from Paul, her interest in becoming a doctor waned; she really didn't like chemistry.†   (source)
  • As the U.S. government's patience waned with the despotic military government, as ragged, half-starved Haitians continued to wash up on beaches in Fort Lauderdale, ruining the view from the condo canyons, the forced return of Haiti's Savior seemed to inch closer.†   (source)
  • Back to another waning winter where Giles Dent stood with Ann Hawkins as he stood with Quinn now.†   (source)
  • "As you can see," the reporter said, "sentiment in support of Shay Bourne and his unprecedented case to donate his heart is waning in the wake of his hospitalization.†   (source)
  • Nothing for half an hour, but my optimism didn't wane.†   (source)
  • Jimmy has been with us for some time and he means very well, but the sad truth is that his sense of smell seems to be waning.†   (source)
  • Mahtob and I were excited and hungry, but our appetites waned when the pizza was placed in front of us.†   (source)
  • They found the Grandfathers right at the point where you could just see the waning daylight, and Mau began to understand.†   (source)
  • Miles above us, the moon has started to wane, the edges bitten off, but we bask in its light anyway, howling like wolves.†   (source)
  • The tense discussions rose, then ebbed and waned and finally ceased, though there was so much more to say.†   (source)
  • But as death threats against Abraham Lincoln mounted in the waning days of the Civil War, these police officers shifted their protective focus to the president.†   (source)
  • The intensity of her insanity waxes and wanes with no predictable schedule or trigger.†   (source)
  • Gondor wanes, you say.†   (source)
  • The full moon wanes and returns again.†   (source)
  • The next second, the waning sun blinked out.†   (source)
  • And so the weeks passed, and the child's chances waned, until the end of the ninth week drew closer and finally just one more day stood between her and a bleak future in a poorhouse.†   (source)
  • They headed down the hill in the afternoon's waning light, Michal first, followed by Tom, and Gabil hopping along to bring up the rear.†   (source)
  • Antonio rubbed his jaw and his smiled waned.†   (source)
  • And, if that marketability had waned or the danger increased, could he have killed her?†   (source)
  • Horace's initial excitement had already waned.†   (source)
  • Then, depending on the value-looseness of the observer and the potential quality of the fact, its value increases, either slowly or rapidly, or the value wanes and the fact disappears.†   (source)
  • I got up from behind the hedge in the waning moon, wet and shaken in the hot air and started out looking for Jack, still turned around in my direction.†   (source)
  • At 3:30, with the winter daylight beginning to wane, Justice Tanny asked Adams to break off his argument and resume it the next day.†   (source)
  • It seemed to draw light from the waning sun.†   (source)
  • Her eyes glittered with water and fever insanity, and her round face waned into sharp angles.†   (source)
  • The group from Luskan moved out into the waning sunlight on the street.†   (source)
  • Lou didn't feel she would ever be close to any of them, but at least the outright hostility had waned.†   (source)
  • He had small teeth set in vast expanses of gum; those round ears; and delicate, almost maidenly skin that tended to flush and pale with the waxing and waning of his digestive problems.†   (source)
  • After fifteen seconds or so, his strength began to wane.†   (source)
  • By then, my interest in playing football was really beginning to wane.†   (source)
  • I, Franklin Hata, retired supplier of home medical goods, expatriate and war veteran and now suburban lap swimmer nonpareil, can operate only provisionally at present, even in the wane of my life.†   (source)
  • This was chilling news to southerners who had counted on a waning of the northern will to fight.†   (source)
  • Its marvelous fertility and brazen health, its deep, brilliant greenness altered and waned almost daily, as winter with its chilly nights and the slow cooling of the Atlantic started to settle into each stem and living thing in the marsh.†   (source)
  • As I looked up at him my sense of exhilaration waned rapidly.†   (source)
  • As always the wind began to drop as the day waned, but it sometimes took half the night for the dust to settle out of the air.†   (source)
  • There were times when he saw, not through the eyes of the body that had once been his, but saw as a demon saw, in all directions, and stripped flesh and bone from those among whom he passed, to behold the flames of their beings, colored with the hues and shades of their passions, flickering with avarice and lust and envy, darting with greed and hunger, smouldering with hate, waning with fear and pain.†   (source)
  • a little slurred, the freckled indoor face sad and haggard in the waning light.†   (source)
  • Waxing and waning with a peculiar rhythm, it ascended ever more swiftly into the sky, drawing a fluctuating line of light across the stars.†   (source)
  • The flesh waned from his thighs and cheeks.†   (source)
  • as holy and enchanted As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted By woman wailing for her demon-lover!†   (source)
  • If it looked like the letter C it was waning, Papa had taught her.†   (source)
  • Behind it there was a coldly tender waning of a voice; Aunt Hannah's voice; her mother's.†   (source)
  • His face in the waning afternoon light looked ravaged and abandoned.†   (source)
  • The moon, late-risen and waning, came out of the clouds.†   (source)
  • that monstrous heart which beat forever, turning the astounded universe, commanding the stars to flee away before the sun's red sandal, bidding the moon to wax and wane, and disappear, and come again; with a silver net holding back the sea, and, out of mysteries abysmal, re-creating, each day, the earth.†   (source)
  • He saw their yellow eyes waxing and waning in the light, focusing and unfocusing.†   (source)
  • At last, to their right, the waning moon arose, and when it came up the wind died down, and the land was still.   (source)
    waning = diminishing
  • 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)
  • He could see the white town of Salinas far out in the flat and the flash of its windows under the waning sun.   (source)
    waning = diminishing or setting
  • ...for the night is waning away   (source)
    waning = diminishing (less of it remaining)
  • She kept waiting for the power to abate, but it remained at high water with no sign of waning.†   (source)
  • Overhead, the waning moon glowed behind a lens of clouds.†   (source)
  • It was waning, and didn't rise till after we docked in Barkley.†   (source)
  • For a moment its shadow bobbed on the wall, waxing and waning.†   (source)
  • She was still, and always would be, girded by an orb of curiosity, but even that was waning.†   (source)
  • And, indeed, a waning moon is rising at that very moment.†   (source)
  • He could feel his strength waning, and they still had another giant to deal with.†   (source)
  • My patience was not waning, but entirely gone.†   (source)
  • In the waning light, she ran her finger over the yellow legal paper before unfolding the pages.†   (source)
  • He was always alone, even back then, in the waning days of the nineteenth century.†   (source)
  • One day in the waning years of his life, Red Pollard stopped talking.†   (source)
  • The sky is dimmed of stars and Celia cannot identify their milky lights, their waning conclusions.†   (source)
  • The rain whipped around him and the waning light made it difficult to see.†   (source)
  • Daylight was waning, the weather was worsening, my reserves of strength were nearly gone.†   (source)
  • Crying under the waning power of his own notes, or perhaps because he could not sing as he once did.†   (source)
  • The room beyond glowed with the waning light of two torches.†   (source)
  • The night was old, and westward the waning moon was setting.†   (source)
  • With both windows open wide, the light of the waning moon spilled across the bedchamber.†   (source)
  • The old man swung his legs to the floor and sat up in the waning moon-light.†   (source)
  • First Saruman was shown that the power of his voice was waning.†   (source)
  • Night was waning when Max finally put the visions and whispers to rest.†   (source)
  • There were many clear stars, but the fast-waning moon would not be seen till late.†   (source)
  • Look for me in Edoras, ere the waning of the moon!†   (source)
  • It was evening, and the grey light was again waning fast, when they halted for the night.†   (source)
  • Cal slipped out the kitchen door and moved through Lee's waning kitchen garden.†   (source)
  • The afternoon, partly overcast now, is waning.†   (source)
  • There was half a moon, and I couldn't remember whether it was waxing or waning; and as we went down the driveway between the rows of maples and past the orchard, I looked behind me, and saw the house standing there all peaceful and lighted up by the moonlight, as if it was gently glowing.†   (source)
  • I move the eggcup a little, so it's now in the watery sunlight that comes through the window and falls, brightening, waning, brightening again, on the tray.†   (source)
  • "I'd prefer not to share that, as the information is classified," Sato said, patience clearly waning.†   (source)
  • And our tolerance is waning!†   (source)
  • This time the contact actually makes some detectable sounds, none of which can be called pleasant, and my instructor's interest seems to be waning.†   (source)
  • Both boys ran in at the Griever and jumped feetfirst at the creature, kicking out at the last second with every waning bit of strength.†   (source)
  • He pressed on the cork to make sure it was wedged in tightly, then held up the bottle in the waning light.†   (source)
  • Muted now, not strident, not announcing itself with a clarion, but waxing and waning in steady oscillations.†   (source)
  • It was the sort of scene that happens at countless youth soccer games, and surely looked routine to the new fans the Fugees had recruited in the waning minutes of the game.†   (source)
  • The pile was waning.†   (source)
  • She's a little paler than other girls I see in the sector, and has large dark eyes that shine with flecks of gold in the waning light.†   (source)
  • As she ate, Savannah stared at the sea, and in the waning light I found myself thinking that she seemed even more at home here than I did.†   (source)
  • —Stilgar's preface to "Muad'Dib, the Man" by the Princess Irulan Stilgar's troop returning to the sietch with its two strays from the desert climbed out of the basin in the waning light of the first moon.†   (source)
  • She tore her coat from the hook and walked out the door and in the waning afternoon light led them around the corner to the woodpile.†   (source)
  • After supper the boys had come out in the day's waning light to stand solemnly around the charred and blackened nest.†   (source)
  • The veterinarian showed him how to administer intramuscular injections of sedative, as well as the older skill—waning even then in veterinary practice—of the ether drip.†   (source)
  • We'd been through too much together for me to even contemplate leaving the service in those waning days of 2001.†   (source)
  • They embraced for a long time, holding each other close in the waning sunlight, and for an instant he thought he felt her tremble.†   (source)
  • There was a fire burning, and the room's pine walls warmed to a rosy glow as the waning sunlight streamed through the open window.†   (source)
  • Blomkvist's waning interest in the Wennerström affair coincided with Salander's disappearance from his life.†   (source)
  • Ryan lay in the waning morning hours, ignored the ache in his heart, and dreamed of dealing with Burt.†   (source)
  • But the moon was waning, not waxing, and it wasn't the Change making him feel like crawling out of his skin.†   (source)
  • Beyond her, the rest of the world was out of focus, and in the waning light, as if disembodied, I heard my own words coming back to me.†   (source)
  • She squinted at him in the waning light, and it occurred to Jeremy that she was even prettier than he remembered.†   (source)
  • Even from thirty feet away, Hazel could sense Annabeth's life force waning, her pulse becoming thready.†   (source)
  • At last he noticed the echoes were waning and ever more of a delay was appearing between each repetition of the sounds.†   (source)
  • Foresters took their axes to the trees in the waning afternoon light to harvest enough wood to see them through the night.†   (source)
  • There's a kind of hush and lassitude until that first snow, with the light waning and the last moose-maple leaves dangling from the branches like seaweed.†   (source)
  • He looked at Suzan in the waning light.†   (source)
  • He floated by them, and slowly his boat departed, waning to a dark spot against the golden light; and then suddenly it vanished.†   (source)
  • He sat me on the table, unwrapped the tourniquet and the soggy dressing, observed with interest the waning spurt of the little blood left inside me, and hauled out his suture kit.†   (source)
  • The sun was low behind him, making the stranger's features difficult to discern, but despite the waning light Dawson was suddenly certain it was the man he'd seen first in the ocean and then again on the supply ship.†   (source)
  • The game was tied 5-5 in the waning minutes when Max ran down a terrified-looking Second Year boy and stole the ball.†   (source)
  • Cleath and her two younger children had struggled on at the delvings, but then the boy sickened and the mother, between tending him and waning in her own strength, failed to pull the required dish of ore from her mine in three weeks.†   (source)
  • Most of the village was hidden underground, only a handful of small hovels to be seen by the light of the waning moon.†   (source)
  • Razor must sense my enthusiasm waning.†   (source)
  • But there was no steady progress; they understood from the doctors that this was only waxing and waning.†   (source)
  • And as Max redoubled his attack, he studied his opponent carefully for any clue that his faith and confidence were waning.†   (source)
  • In the waning light, the Varden settled on a series of cultivated fields just southeast of Dras-Leona, where the land rose up to a slight plateau, which would provide them with a modicum of protection should the enemy charge their position.†   (source)
  • The bush leagues contained two kinds of riders: kids like Pollard seeking to make their names and veterans in the bitter waning days of their careers, sliding down to this last and lowest place in the sport.†   (source)
  • With daylight waning, Schoening and Madsen therefore began dragging Ngawang laboriously down the mountain, using the deflated Gamow Bag as a makeshift toboggan, while guide Neal Beidleman and a team of Sherpas climbed as quickly as they could from Base Camp to meet them.†   (source)
  • She stopped and looked around, but her vision was blurred, and she knew that she would never find the forest in this waning light.†   (source)
  • He complains of an energy waning within him, and is convinced that the time he's stolen between death and oblivion is coming to an end.†   (source)
  • At last as the afternoon was waning they came to the eaves of the forest, and in an open glade among the first trees they found the place of the great burning: the ashes were still hot and smoking.†   (source)
  • But autumn was waning fast; slowly the golden light faded to pale silver, and the lingering leaves fell from the naked trees.†   (source)
  • You'll remember, Mr. Frodo, the Moon was waning as we lay on the flet up in that tree: a week from the full, I reckon.†   (source)
  • Turning quickly they saw ripples, black-edged with shadow in the waning light: great rings were widening outwards from a point far out in the lake.†   (source)
  • Only the waning might of Gondor stands now between him and a march in power along the coasts into the North; and if he comes, assailing the White Towers and the Havens, hereafter the Elves may have no escape from the lengthening shadows of Middle-earth.†   (source)
  • Day was waning.†   (source)
  • Waning tonight.†   (source)
  • Olivetti's patience was clearly starting to wane.†   (source)
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