| 1. | So farr remote, with diminution seen. - from Paradise Lost by John Milton |
| 2. | Their first subject was the diminution of the Rosings party. - from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
| 3. | A diminution in our captain's brai. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 4. | The diminution of a pile of crowns made bankers sing the Marseillaise. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 5. | Shadow is the diminution of light by the intervention of an opaque body. - from The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete by Leonardo Da Vinci |
| 6. | The second part is that which treats of the diminution in colour in these objects. - from The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete by Leonardo Da Vinci |
| 7. | of its height and so on by degrees, as the space doubles the diminution will double. - from The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete by Leonardo Da Vinci |
| 8. | And this is proved by the first of what has been said above, and its diminution is natural. - from The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete by Leonardo Da Vinci |
| 9. | I went slowly along, puzzling about the machines, and had been too intent upon them to notice the gradual diminution of the light, until Weena's increasing apprehensions drew my attention. - from The Time Machine by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells |