"But our hope is diminishing every day."

My hopes of getting reliable information from the shrunken hunchback were diminishing by the moment.

Their hopes for his safe return were rapidly diminishing.

Her hope for surviving this encounter diminished by another degree.

But that hope had never been great, and was diminishing as she saw how methodically the Hectare were consolidating their hold on the planet.

That hope, so strong for many in the first few days after the blast, is diminishing among most now, or altogether gone.

Before him are seven tall white candles on a table, and, as they melt, his hopes of survival also diminish.

Commandants of both districts concede that hopes of finding them alive have diminished.

Fletcher asked, and Hernandez's hope of reading one more great novel in her lifetime diminished by another degree.

Olga's hopes of becoming a successful stage actress had not yet diminished.