Your mother is a great woman, and so dishonorable a death would have diminished the Alliance.

Look how still they sleep; even death does not diminish them.

This one made a game effort, taking a theme about universal tragedy and how any death diminishes us all.

The same poet went on to say, Any man's death diminishes me.

If any person's death does not diminish you, there is an emptiness within your spirit.

Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind.

He seemed shrunken, as if Olive's death had diminished him.

His death in 1901 diminished the historic connections with the former kingdom.

The Templar commander seemed smaller now and older: death had diminished him.

A death like this left the victim no dignity whatsoever and somehow diminished the entire human race.