How to Use in decline in a Sentence

in decline

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Definition of in declinenext
  • The financial markets are not remotely suggesting that America is in decline – far from it.
    — Ron Insana, CNBC, 13 July 2024
  • At the end of the day, Russia is a weak state in decline.
    — Leon Aron, National Review, 11 Nov. 2023
  • As with so many species in decline, a loss of habitat is key to the changes.
    — Paul Smith, Journal Sentinel, 18 Jan. 2024
  • The news comes at a time when Terran’s stock has been in decline.
    — Q.ai - Powering A Personal Wealth Movement, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2023
  • And there are moments that speak to the idea that the white male patriarchy is in decline.
    — Jen Chaney, Vulture, 3 May 2024
  • Jobs in coal had been in decline decades before the wind turbines came to Keyser in 2012.
    — Kat Lonsdorf, NPR, 26 Feb. 2024
  • Chinook runs have been in decline for a long period, and the species is the subject of a U.S.-Canada treaty.
    — Yereth Rosen, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Apr. 2023
  • Then the Nets arrived and seized upon a defense in decline.
    — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 26 Mar. 2023
  • Once an area is in decline, the trajectory is hard to change.
    — Sheelah Kolhatkar, The New Yorker, 29 Jan. 2024
  • But the timber industry in the Tongass has been in decline.
    — Riley Rogerson, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Aug. 2023
  • Nevertheless, in the rust belt of the North East, factories were already in decline and thefts were on the rise.
    — Patrick Frater, Variety, 22 Oct. 2023
  • As that conflict had died down, the total number of conflict deaths had been in decline.
    — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 29 June 2023
  • By then, Black radio and retail outlets had been in decline for years.
    — Danielle Amir Jackson Malike Sidibe, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2023
  • But those problems come back to a business model in decline.
    — Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Sep. 2023
  • This was driven by fears, shared by some Americans, that the United States was in decline.
    — Russell Flannery, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Americans since the day of the founding have worried their country is in decline.
    — Elliot Kaufman, wsj.com, 14 May 2023
  • At the same time as unemployment among the youth is rising, their mental health is in decline.
    — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 21 June 2024
  • Among the findings: Half of American adults believe our state is in decline.
    — Joe Mathews, The Mercury News, 30 Mar. 2024
  • By the time Pease began his whaling career, the industry was in decline.
    — James Hagengruber, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 June 2023
  • Through the first half of the year, China was the company’s only major market where orders were in decline.
    — David J. Lynch, Washington Post, 4 Sep. 2023
  • This is a story of survival, persistence and, perhaps in some ways, dumb luck—a tree in decline that was rescued and whose seeds were sent to other places.
    — Daniel Lewis, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Mar. 2024
  • Honda The global auto show might be in decline, but at least fans of futuristic cars still have CES.
    — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 9 Jan. 2024
  • The firm was too narrowly focused on a single client segment, a segment in decline.
    — Scott Kirsner, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Mar. 2023
  • But union membership rates have been in decline for several decades now.
    — Sara Chernikoff, USA TODAY, 5 Sep. 2023
  • The sad irony is that late-night ratings were already in decline before the strike, amid shifts in TV viewing patterns driven in part by streaming.
    — Brian Lowry, CNN, 5 Sep. 2023
  • The share of workers earning the minimum has been in decline as employers boost pay to overcome the tight labor market.
    — Mike Rogoway | Mrogoway@oregonian.com, oregonlive, 15 Apr. 2023
  • First is that the share of companies that apply such a mandatory policy is in decline.
    — Michael Peregrine, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2024
  • Is that enough funding to meet the demand, and is there a particular region in the country where historic Black churches are in decline?
    — Dana Taylor, USA TODAY, 25 Feb. 2024
  • After being in decline the whole day, Meta recovered a bit by late afternoon, gaining 0.3% at the time of writing.
    — Vinamrata Chaturvedi, Quartz, 2 Apr. 2024
  • Retail numbers are slowing and restaurant visits are in decline.
    — Joel Mathis, theweek, 2 July 2024

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