Sentences with 'wane'
Example sentences and phrases with the word wane and other words derived from it.
• « The "thirty glorious years" of the post-war economic boom ended in the early 1970s, and the optimism of the youth movement tended to wane with it. »
• « At the Battle of the Thames in Ontario, the United States defeated the British and their native allies, and Tecumseh was among the dead. Indian resistance began to wane, opening the territories of Indiana and Michigan to white settlement. »
• « In the early 1820s, deference to pedigree began to wane in American society. A new kind of deference - to the will of the majority rather than to a ruling class - took hold. »