Meanings of declining into in English

The Romans have long since departed and Britain is steadily declining into ruin.

She was resting too much, declining into a kind of stupor, within the rock.

Individualism was becoming predominant, loyalty was declining into a sentiment.

In his own time, he feared that traditional forms of Christianity were declining into merely ethical codes.

Jones Lang sees rents declining into 2010.

England emancipated the West India slaves, and Lord Brougham tells us, that they are rapidly declining into barbarism.

The girl, once remarkable for a quiet frankness of word and look, was declining into a creature of shifts and agitation.

It had an air of age that was not immortal, but stiffly declining into a stubborn resistance against the slow rigidity of death.

His forehead was bold and well-developed-his hair short, thick and crispy, eyes keen and piercing, cheeks regularly declining into a well-shaped mouth and chin.

Polonius is a man bred in courts, exercised in business, stored with observation, confident of his knowledge, proud of his eloquence, and declining into dotage.