decline - use in sentences

Object

  • cookie: You have the ability to accept or decline cookies.

Converse of object

  • reverse: They have reversed the previous decline in road deaths.
  • halt: Help to halt the decline in house sparrows by building the bird nesting box below.
  • suffer: For Hungary did not suffer the slow decline into the Final Solution, through a myriad stages of debasement.
  • accelerate: Corporations are, rightly, commonly held to be primarily responsible for humanity's accelerating decline into suicidal unsustainability.
  • offset: Growth in long-distance traffic offset a decline in the traditional cross-Channel market, tho Eurotunnel claimed it held its own against the ferry operators.
  • arrest: Rural Areas The Labor Government will take measures to arrest the decline in the quality of life in rural areas.

Adjective modifier

  • steady: Our once proud fishing fleet has been in steady decline over the years.
  • gradual: During the following thirty years, Govanites were to face a number of problems related to the gradual decline of its once-great industries.
  • sharp: There has been a sharp decline in the number of hours of coverage.
  • rapid: In the early nineteenth century, Spanish power went into rapid decline.
  • marked: Figures for West Europe show a marked decline in recent years.
  • steep: Confidence remains weak but it has not got any worse following the steep decline reported in September.

Noun used with modifier

  • fertility: Fertility declines, says the report, accounted for one fifth of the economic growth in East Asia between 1960 and 1995.
  • terminal: They said Conservatism in Wales was in terminal decline.
  • percent: Percent crush declines to film the session we might the only hands.

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