grow less

The world grows steadily more unpredictable, and hence we grow less comfortable in it.

Miss Grieve's plaints never grow less, though we are sometimes at a loss for appropriate quotations to match them.

My house does not grow less full; the greatest ladies do me the honour of supping with me.

Both every day grow less and less, by the small rigid particles which are deposited within them.

Now, too, when the work is entered, the very difficulties which barred the way grow less or disappear.

Gradually I grew calmer—after that fearful crash the thunder claps seemed to grow less violent.