How to Use decline in a Sentence

decline

1 of 2 verb

• He changed his mind and declined the company's offer.
• The company declined comment on the scandal.
• The construction of new houses declined five percent this year.
• I invited him, but he declined.
• My grandmother's health has been declining since she broke her hip.
• The animal's numbers are declining rapidly.
• The civilization began to decline around 1000 B.C.
• The owner of the pregnant dog declined to fix her pet, too.
  — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 20 Oct. 2023
• The department declined at the time to state the reason for his absence.
  — Dakota Smith, Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2023
• The agency declined to comment on the proposal ahead of the vote.
  — Suzy Khimm, NBC News, 13 Sep. 2023
• The Academy declined to confirm the final list of the 20 movies.
  — Clayton Davis, Variety, 7 Dec. 2023
• Birth rates have been declining since that frenzy, but the Milky Way still makes about 10 to 20 new stars a year.
  — WIRED, 12 Nov. 2023
• The lawyer for the plaintiffs, E. Powell Miller, declined to comment.
  — Jamie L. Lareau, Detroit Free Press, 29 Mar. 2024
• Since the last drop, when more shoes landed on StockX, prices have declined slightly and trades have picked up.
  — Rachel Tashjian, Washington Post, 8 Aug. 2023
• But their plans were dashed once again when their local bank declined to take the pennies.
  — Erin Clack, Peoplemag, 9 June 2023
• Ellard declined to share how much the townhomes will cost.
  — Jenny Rudolph, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 29 Jan. 2024
• The Bucks and Brewers have declined to comment on this story.
  — Journal Sentinel, 17 Jan. 2024
• Lee declined to eat before the others waiting and left.
  — Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 1 Nov. 2023
• Ford declined to provide theft data to the Detroit Free Press.
  — Detroit Free Press, 9 June 2023
• Jackson police declined to comment on the case and have asked for more time to respond to a records request.
  — Jon Schuppe, NBC News, 22 Feb. 2024
• At the time, Bythewood and La Cité blamed the delay on water damage and declined to elaborate.
  — Giacomo Bologna, Baltimore Sun, 26 May 2023
• The effort was blocked by a judge, and an appeal of the decision was shot down when the Arizona Supreme Court declined to accept the county’s request.
  — Sarah Lapidus, The Arizona Republic, 8 Aug. 2023
• The city’s Law Department declined to answer questions about what is and is not legal in the realm of sleeping outdoors.
  — Andy Newman, New York Times, 26 May 2023
• Both the volume and value of jewelry sold by Signet last quarter declined.
  — Jason Karaian, New York Times, 9 June 2023
• In December 2022, the state’s highest court declined to look at the case involving the reward money.
  — Ivana Hrynkiw | [e-mail], al, 20 June 2023
• His health will further decline and more unexpected trips to Texas will be booked.
  — Fidel Martinez, Los Angeles Times, 4 Jan. 2024
• Broadcom declined to confirm to the Financial Times whether the deal would need Chinese approval.
  — Bylionel Lim, Fortune, 20 Oct. 2023
• The vast majority of GOP senators, meanwhile, have declined to weigh in on the contest, though that could change with time.
  — Emily Jacobs, Washington Examiner, 6 Oct. 2023
• Pollinators underpin our ecosystems and food supply, but Britain’s flying insect population has declined by as much as 60 percent in the past 20 years.
  — Frankie Adkins, WIRED, 10 Apr. 2024
• My mom passed away in 2023 after gradually declining from Alzheimer’s, vascular dementia and myelodysplastic syndrome for a couple of years.
  — Phoebe Zerwick, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2024

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decline

2 of 2 noun

• We saw a sharp decline in sales this month.
• Declines led advances at the end of the trading day.
• There was some decline in stock prices at the end of the trading session.
• The town fell into decline after the factory closed down.
• The economy experienced a decline of two million jobs.
• He says that American industry is in a state of decline.
• But in 2013, after years of decline and the loss of thousands of jobs, the town’s mill closed.
  — Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 June 2023
• New York City's decline may be due to the weight of its 1.08 million buildings, the study says.
  — Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 8 June 2023
• The sales decline was mainly in the pork and chicken segments, Tyson said.
  — Serenah McKay, Arkansas Online, 8 Aug. 2023
• That may be a reason for the decline in D.I.Y. filmmaking.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2023
• The state ranked sixth in the U.S. among the fastest shrinking states, both in percentage and numeric declines.
  — Kristine De Leon, oregonlive, 14 Sep. 2023
• How deep those declines are can vary and will determine the impact on each city.
  — Joseph Mysak Jr., Fortune, 10 Feb. 2024
• The decline in air quality is caused by wildfire smoke from Canada drifting down to the east coast of the U.S.
  — Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 June 2023
• The pic is looking at a respectable decline of 46 percent.
  — Pamela McClintock, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Mar. 2024
• But does this decline translate to any modicum of renter relief?
  — Anthony De Leon, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2024
• The watchdog report charts a decades-long decline in the tax rates paid by corporations.
  — Daniel De Visé, USA TODAY, 13 Mar. 2024
• Consumers moving to streaming video has led to the decline of the pay-TV business, which has lost 25 million customers in the last five years alone.
  — Stephen Battaglio, Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2023
• That raises the alarm that the decline of Greenland’s ice sheet could accelerate.
  — WIRED, 26 July 2023
• In September, Nvidia shares flagged, however, with a decline for the month of 11.9 percent.
  — Jeff Sommer, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2023
• The impact of that long decline has manifested itself in the form of layoffs and cost-cutting.
  — Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Sep. 2023
• While most platforms have improved since last year's report, Twitter saw a decline in its score — to 33% from 45%.
  — USA TODAY, 16 June 2023
• Timber was in a steady decline, with sharp downturns and rippling effects.
  — Peter Hecht, Sacramento Bee, 21 Feb. 2024
• America’s milk producers worry about the type of milk schools serve, amid a decades-long decline in milk sales.
  — Phil Galewitz, oregonlive, 13 July 2023
• Some types of products are even seeing deflation, or a decline in prices compared with a year ago.
  — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 14 Dec. 2023
• For all the ink spilled about the retail apocalypse and the decline of malls, Park Plaza's parking lot was almost full on Friday at midafternoon.
  — Staff and Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 25 Nov. 2023
• The 20-City index and the 10-City indexes showed annual declines.
  — Anna Bahney, CNN, 30 May 2023
• This decline in the purchasing power of wages is giving rise to the need for a second job to supplement income.
  — Kelly Monahan, Fortune, 18 Jan. 2024
• The decline in drinking over the past decade has come as many states have legalized marijuana.
  — Sophie Hills, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Jan. 2024
• The results, showing small declines in support for Ukraine, seem wholly unreliable but were passed along to the strategists’ Kremlin masters as measures of success.
  — Joseph Menn, Washington Post, 8 Apr. 2024
• The findings suggest that a decline in water clarity hurts loon reproductive success.
  — Gaby Vinick, ABC News, 10 Apr. 2024

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