There the story might have ended, with a career in sad and terminal decline.

The baths went into a long, sad decline when the spa was turned over to the agency that runs New York's state parks.

Their long history as tourist attractions reveals the sad decline in standards of graffiti.

The story of the river's sad decline, its pollution and the closing of the industries that lined it is well known.

Another example of the sad decline of a once great newspaper.

Chinese engineering products are also in sad decline.

Ours is a day of very sad decline.

Perhaps they matured a billion years ago and are now in sad decline, unable to communicate even with themselves.

Any story more pressing than the sad decline of chintz?

There was in Jones's mostly triumphal life a hint of loss, and not just in his long, sad decline.