How to Use diminution in a Sentence

diminution

noun

• Hochschild blames Trump for a diminution of the United States' stature in the world.
  — Denise Coffey, Courant Community, 21 May 2018
• Still, France’s trade unions see any diminution of benefits as the thin end of the wedge.
  — The Economist, 11 Jan. 2020
• But those gains would come at a cost: the diminution of the workforce by 1.5 million people.
  — Scott A. Hodge, WSJ, 28 Nov. 2022
• Hope seemed like too much to hope for after these four years of destruction and diminution.
  — Yvonne Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Jan. 2021
• The past 70 years has seen the increasing diminution of the country’s standing in the global order.
  — Neel Mukherjee, WSJ, 23 Aug. 2018
• The effect of this, of course, is the diminution of anything and everything that does not matter to Europe.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2024
• That one line is the dividing line between growth of the virus and a decrease of it, or diminution of it, in terms of incidents.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 8 May 2020
• What has changed over the past year has been a diminution of regulatory risk.
  — Paul Vigna, WSJ, 14 Apr. 2021
• These days, the bank is fighting to maintain an edge that has been blunted by the diminution of its core trading business.
  — Emily Flitter and Kate Kelly, New York Times, 11 Jan. 2018
• However, in recent years, more and more have continued north to see what’s left of the lake, and the land its diminution left behind.
  — Henry Wismayer, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Aug. 2022
• Granted that the race was closer and Biden won the popular vote by about 4.5 points, but a diminution of the Democratic vote is hard to ignore.
  — NBC News, 1 May 2022
• The punishment for men is the Atlantis-esque destruction of Númenor and the diminution of long lifespans for all but a few men.
  — Jack Butler, National Review, 31 Dec. 2023
• There was no diminution of his polymathic intellect as his body failed.
  — Mark Lamster, Dallas News, 30 July 2020
• And that this will no longer happen on the edge of the the Pacific Ocean, another small diminution of how surprising San Francisco can be.
  — John King, SFChronicle.com, 27 Oct. 2020
• Among the calamities of war may be justly numbered the diminution of the love of truth, by the falsehoods which interest dictates and credulity encourages.
  — Fintan O’Toole, The New York Review of Books, 8 Oct. 2020
• Is your view that that won't happen, that there will be no diminution in corporate activity, or is your view?
  — CBS News, 2 May 2021
• The diminution of dolphins thus far has taken two main tacks: anatomical and behavioral.
  — Erik Vance, Discover Magazine, 4 Oct. 2013
• Another telltale sign of infection may be a sudden, profound diminution of one’s sense of smell and taste.
  — Katherine J. Wu, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2020
• The film doesn’t address this diminution of her role after the first film at all, instead pivoting full force into Momoa’s charisma.
  — Olivia McCormack, Washington Post, 21 Dec. 2023
• So might a suit about construction defects, harm to property or diminution in its value.
  — Robert W. Wood, Forbes, 18 July 2022
• Well, not good things for those that are in the immediate area of the fire obviously, but further out, the answer is that there is very little, if any impact save for the diminution of light.
  — Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 4 July 2019
• This diminution of news might be a way for Facebook to walk away from the public sphere—or, at least, appear to walk away—at a time when it has been taken to task for its overweening influence there.
  — Eric Klinenberg, The New York Review of Books, 18 Apr. 2019
• Racial caste in the United States makes all people of color vulnerable to assaults, diminution and violence at the hands of white supremacy.
  — Washington Post, 24 Mar. 2021
• COVID-19’s march toward diminution won’t be linear or uniform.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 21 Sep. 2021
• One result will be a diminution of candor, and a commensurate increase in grandstanding and playing to the public back home.
  — Jonathan Rauch, Time, 19 May 2017
• The 13 least populous states would suffer the largest diminution of their weight in presidential politics.
  — George F. Will, The Mercury News, 29 Aug. 2019
• Shortly after he was confirmed to lead the State Department, Rex Tillerson was tasked with overseeing its diminution.
  — James Baker, vanityfair.com, 20 Aug. 2017
• America’s embracing of English soccer could, on some level, be read as the diminution of its own sporting landscape.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 22 Dec. 2023
• A morning of diminished spirits; diminution of appetite, loud repeated gorking on the good rugs, eating of grass, eyes at half-mast, lying inert in the backyard.
  — James Lileks, Star Tribune, 6 June 2021
• This is the first time such diminution has occurred since the Oscars ceremony had its initial television transmission in 1953.
  — Paul Grein, Billboard, 24 Feb. 2022

Last Updated: 18 Oct 2024