“I regret to inform you that I must submit my declination to your invitation to speak at the conference.”

“Although once a prominent player, the team's consistent performance issues led to their declination to a lower division.”

“The hiker carefully navigated the steep declination of the mountain, using trekking poles to maintain balance.”

“The decline in our revenue this month was fully expected and should not be cause for alarm.”

“The bicyclist slowed down upon encountering an unexpectedly steep decline.”

“Dr. Livingstone very naturally understood this as a declinature of his proposals.”

“For his declinature was not a rude rejection of an honour deemed essentially false and vain.”

“Women whose close friends or family members had breast cancer recurrence despite taking tamoxifen held reservations about the efficacy of tamoxifen in preventing breast cancer, and cited this in their reasons for declinature.”

“This resulted in man's declension in health and vigor until death ensued.”

“Peter Milsom gave two very practical papers on spiritual growth and spiritual declension.”

“We may reasonably allow as much for the declension of the land from that place to the sea.”

“The thick impervious jungle, extending its whole length, occupies also the lower half of the steep declivity of both the hills.”

“Hours later, I found the pass at over 18,000 feet, a sharp declivity between two minor summits.”

“The Brahmaputra River, one of the great rivers of the world, pours down from Tibet, in a steep declivity, into Assam, down toward Bangladesh and the Bay of Bengal.”

“He was a declinist who thought that capitalism's destructive energies would sweep away the heroic virtues that built it.”

“I have sometimes been marked down as a declinist, but this label misses the point.”

“It is these declinist narratives that are responsible for stirring up skepticism.”

“Three pillow lava sites yielded data with westerly declinations and moderately inclined positive inclinations.”

“In view of these declinations or national transpositions, the choice of signatories for a transnational agreement can be decisive.”

“This table shows the values to be used to set the graduated sliding bars for the different declinations of the sun.”

“It was in Latin and not English Language classes that we learnt about the various verb tenses and noun declensions.”

“Besides, this is what eventually reveals the main weakness of the record: a lack of variety and harmonic declensions.”

“German belongs to the West Germanic family of languages. German is an inflected language that has conjugations and declensions.”

“Suitable for laying in declivities, pulling in concrete ducts or laying at any place where a mechanical protection of the cable is needed.”

“All the camps on the declivities about Andersonville were drained into this stream.”

“I don't dare hazard my own description of its curves and declivities – but it is strangely beautiful.”

“By 1.30 pm only one billion shares had traded in FTSE stocks, with advancers outweighing decliners by three-to-one on the main index.”

“On the New York Stock Exchange, advancers topped decliners as 573 million shares changed hands.”

“There were no statistically significant differences between the acceptors and the decliners in terms of gender, ethnicity, age or education.”