grow smaller
Example Sentences
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Each time that happens, the surviving green patches grow smaller.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 20, 2022
A weak yen, once considered a boon to the export-led economy, is now having less of an impact as shipments grow smaller, given the ongoing shift by Japanese manufacturers to offshore production.
From Reuters • May 19, 2022
Buddhist monks chanted, the incantations broadcast by loudspeaker over a village where history’s aggressors and victims still coexist, where farmers’ landholdings grow smaller with each year.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 16, 2022
And satellites will only grow smaller and more numerous as the commercial space industry heats up.
From Slate • Apr. 9, 2018
Still as a statue, I stare at the horizon until the wagon, the men on horses grow smaller and smaller.
From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
