Thus in discourse, the lovers whiled away The night that waned and waned and brought no day.
Uphill and down they spurred and across wind-swept levels while the moon waned and the stars paled to the dawn; and with the first chill breath of coming day there reached them the sharp, salt tang of the sea.
All the afternoon he kept the road, and as the day waned he became ever more alert, his quick eyes scanned the road before and behind and he rode for long stretches with his head leaned to that angle of patient listening for sounds afar.
Say the word, Mad, and before the first full moon of this new year has waned to half a cheese she will shine down upon us, anew, with the old shining.
The shy goodwill of Gervase Norgate's early married life hadwaned into discontent and dislike, and was fast settling into rooted hatred.
But as evening spread across them, shading with a silent fold, all the colour stole away; all remembrance waned and died.
Hot blood was ever among them, even of one household; and their sovereignty (which more than once had defied the King of Scotland) waned and fell among themselves, by continual quarrelling.
The slow, hot days waned through a long after-glow of rose and violet; and when the stars came, it was only to reveal purple depths within depths.
Louder and louder Lachlan played upon his chanter; deeper and deeper grew the wild moaning of the drone; but for all that, fainter and fainter waned the sound of the pipes of Rory M'Vurich.
And while I waned into nothingness I felt in my nostrils the salt smell of the sea, and, listening, I heard the honk of the wild geese wedging southward.
But as summer lapsed into autumn, and autumn itself through its golden silences waned into the shadow of the equinox, a strange, brooding serenity came upon Alan.
So high its flight that the first glance saw it as though motionless; yet, even while Mary looked, the skyfarer waned suddenly, and that which had been was not.
Poor Byron seemed to grow sober and reflective, as the last Canto waned away.
Not a star has waxed, not a star has waned to my knowledge.
Our Lord's year of popularity waned much after the miracle of the feeding of the five thousand.
During all this period, the church's life increased or waned in proportion as it attended to or neglected the religious instruction of the young.
The light waned around him, and pass'd Into darkness.
Changing rainbow tints waxed and waned on the surface, growing deeper and more gorgeous until the floating globe glowed scarlet, then suddenly burst into flame and vanished.
Even its eyes were hot and red as molten rubies; and as its crimson gills swelled and relaxed and swelled, tints of cherry-fire waxed and waned over its fat and glowing body.
Three moons had waxed and waned since, far away upon the Upper Saguenay, the pools foreshadowed substance of those haunting dreams of glories human eye had never seen--thrice thirty days ere Andre neared his goal.
That ere one moon had waxed and waned his dugout was prepared for its long journey inland, west by south, along the waterway of two great Lands!
A sneaking native taste for the forsaken side, known to renegades, hauled at them if her image waned during the week; and it waned a little, but Sunday restored and stamped it.
Above the grated window the little patch of blue began to fade as the day waned and darkened into night.
The day waned at length and darkened into night, and Mrs. Fisher and one of the servants remained up to watch by the little invalid.
And as the ship rolled, and the water washed impetuously across her decks, the dark planking gleamed with millions of tiny fairy-like stars, which waxed and waned with every oscillation of the vessel.
Religious enthusiasm had risen to its height in the middle of the century, but had already waned by the years when John Milton received only ten pounds for the manuscript of "Paradise Lost.
As time went on, largely on account of the climate and the nature of the industries, slavery wanedin the North and thrived in the South.
As a natural consequence of these differences the writing of books soon waned in Virginia and the neighboring colonies, but developed consistently in Massachusetts and New England.
Mahomet's first flush of inspiration, whichwaned before the heaviness of his later tasks, is the cumulation of that wild and fervid art with the breath of the desert urgent within it.
Since its material prosperity overwhelmed its spiritual ascendancy in the first years of triumph its vitality has waned under the stress of riches, then beneath lassitude and the slow decrease of power.
Night waned upon this talk, and even the witching hour had gone by, before we retired to rest.
Fletcher is here, and as if, like a shadow, he waxed and waned with the substance of his master, Fletcher also has recovered his good looks, and from amidst the unseasonable gray hairs a fresh harvest of flaxen locks has put forth.
And I sat for long without speaking, and the church grew darker as the moonwaned yet more.
The tableau all waned at last with the pallidness aloft; and once more the Pequod and every soul on her decks were wrapped in a pall.
Now, with the subordinate phantoms, what wonder remained soon waned away; for in a whaler wonders soon wane.
They came and passed the oriel, where an officer or two, looking up and discovering Mrs. Maumbry, saluted her, whose eyes filled with tears as the notes of the band waned away.
The sun wanedin the gorgeous heaven, and set, surrounded by red and murky clouds.
And now, as morningwaned towards noon, the storm began to subside.
Time flowed on--the monotonous hours of the day waned again towards night; and plague and famine told their lapse in the fated highways of Rome.
So utterly Worn out and waned my state that I myself Feel much averse unto my wretched self.
The springs of enthusiasm waned with her strength, and presently she felt jaded.
He began not only by sympathising with the people, but by believing in their capacity to manage best their own affairs: a belief that steadily waned as he grew older until he denied to them even the right to choose their rulers.
The Old and Middle Ages, according to his view, had their chiefs, captains, kings, and waxed or waned with the increase or decrease of their Loyality.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "waned" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
