The fire was dulling, focusing into an ever-smaller point.    From Wordnik.com.  [Twilight]

My mind ran in ever-smaller circles, chasing itself to nowhere.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Emerald Triangle]

The Internet trains readers to consume news in ever-smaller bites.    From Wordnik.com.  [Media’s change-haters « BuzzMachine] Reference

Legal, illegal, it's an ever-smaller bottle for the drugged cockroaches.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-09-01] Reference

Passengers are shelling out hundreds of dollars to be crammed into ever-smaller rows.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flying is a pain for everyone, so why does Steven Slater get to throw a tantrum?] Reference

For there seemed to be an infinite number of ever-smaller moons, each a world in itself.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stork Naked]

Yes, national-security journalism is dwindling to an ever-smaller pool of paid positions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Editors: Hire Jeff Stein | ATTACKERMAN] Reference

And they let businesspeople who sell music divide music buyers into ever-smaller demographic slices.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tony Sachs: Why Guns N' Roses' Chinese Democracy Marks The End Of An Era] Reference

Unless removed, they'll remain in the sea for hundreds of years, breaking up into ever-smaller particles.    From Wordnik.com.  [Drowning in an Ocean of Plastic] Reference

But that audience is getting ever-smaller and ever-older and the news universe around it is only exploding.    From Wordnik.com.  [Behind the cameras « BuzzMachine] Reference

If we don't, we will find ourselves with fewer and fewer people in our audiences, and an ever-smaller donor base.    From Wordnik.com.  [Michael Kaiser: Why Ticket Prices Must Change] Reference

The purpled lifethread exploded into thousands of smaller threads, unraveling and fraying into ever-smaller pieces.    From Wordnik.com.  [Darkness]

To quote Wikipedia, Unlike debris, which biodegrades, the photodegraded plastic disintegrates into ever-smaller pieces.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nathan Havey: Think Outside the Bottle] Reference

Their economic system had been forced back into the preindustrial age and their territory broken into ever-smaller fragments.    From Wordnik.com.  [Palestine Peace Not Apartheid] Reference

The rest of the houses were cut up into ever-smaller apartments, with students packed in shoulder to shoulder, or so it seemed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Homebody]

Fractals are geometric shapes that break into parts, with each part a model of the whole structure but on an ever-smaller scale.    From Wordnik.com.  [Benoit Mandelbrot, pioneer in fractal geometry, dies at 85] Reference

It's the result of two interrelated trends: Consumers want ever-smaller point-and-shoots, and they want them with larger LCD displays.    From Wordnik.com.  [Can't find a camera with a viewfinder? Here's why] Reference

This is a reasonable judgment given that ever-tighter ozone standards cost a great deal to meet but yield ever-smaller gains in public health.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beverly Hillbully] Reference

Squeezed by low-cost imports from Brazil and other foreign producers, U.S. growers of sugar control an ever-smaller share of the global market.    From Wordnik.com.  [Florida to Buy] Reference

Over the past few years, older people in the region have passed their vineyards on to their children, dividing lands into ever-smaller parcels.    From Wordnik.com.  [LVMH Bottles Up] Reference

And they too are lamenting the state of media, reminiscing about the 'good ol' days 'and busily breaking up their companies into ever-smaller silos.    From Wordnik.com.  [Media Malfeasance: Observations from the Front Lines - The Media Wailing Wall - Matthew Greene - MediaBizBloggers] Reference

In an ever-smaller world, and an increasingly multicultural society, our museums have an educational mission whose importance would be hard to overstate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Museums Taxed by New Allegations] Reference

With the advent of power-operated mass production machinery, it expanded rapidly, controlled by an ever-smaller group as free competition was replaced by monopoly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Statement at the Smith Act Trial] Reference

One reason is that ever-more-inventive mortgages requiring ever-smaller cash outlays put houses within reach of buyers who otherwise couldn't have remotely afforded them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Getting Clobbered?] Reference

I have stood on the show floor of the International CES and been blown away by ever-smaller and faster products that do things that were unimaginable only a few years ago.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gary Shapiro: Innovation in America: An Autobahn, or a Suburban Street With Speed Bumps?] Reference

Even as scientists have developed new insights into the subtle health impacts of ever-smaller traces of chemicals, the regulatory process has responded slowly or not at all.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elaine Shannon: What's in your water?] Reference

At the far end, he emerges in a public space modeled on a Menger sponge -- a cube diced subtractively with ever-smaller cubic volumes until its surface area tends toward infinity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Asimov's Science Fiction]

Taliban insurgents were squeezed into ever-smaller pockets.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to Taliban reject renewed Karzai call for peace] Reference

The science of medicine is a continuing journey into an ever-smaller territory.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wil's Ebay E-Store]

In a world chock-full of citizen publishers, we mainstream types control an ever-smaller chunk of human knowledge.    From Wordnik.com.  [BusinessWeek.com --] Reference

But look at some kinds of plants and you'll see their fronds are made up of ever-smaller versions of the overall leaf.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Scientist - Online News] Reference

In the future, we will live in ever-smaller houses with ever-larger TV screens, so you need all the wall-space you have.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed] Reference

For another thing, phase-change memory could get around difficulties of shrinking current memory technologies to ever-smaller sizes.    From Wordnik.com.  [ZDNet Asia Latest Tech News] Reference

"With this acquisition, Applied will help the world's leading chip makers create ever-smaller and more powerful devices," Splinter said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fore, right!] Reference