waste away

But the girl seemed to waste away before their eyes, and to understand nothing of what was said to her.

Took to her bed, and in a while she wasted away.

There is a good human being with a big heart wasting away on his own.

"I do not want my family to watch me waste away," she wrote.

The woman may have her problems, but she is hardly wasting away.

What was left of her body would waste away; then, real darkness.

Also, her health has taken a turn for the worse, and she is wasting away.

We have to exercise our bodies or they waste away.

How could all the progress I'd built up have wasted away so quickly?

I suspect she was actually close to death, either from wasting away or by her own hand.

All the talent that we have is just wasting away.

Over the next five days he wastes away and dies.

There's no point at all in letting yourself waste away.

Until finally she is a tiny figure, wasting away, ready to die.

She is only drawn back to him after seeing how he has wasted away without her.

Even eating enough to keep from wasting away took more time than she wanted to spend.

She wasted away and two months later, her days were numbered.

Waiting for him to waste away and die would require no effort on my part.

Connie decided that she would rather die than waste away.

Finally, many structures just wasted away with time and weather.

I said, "All the time we might have spent talking has been wasted away.

I feel like she's just wasting away in front of our eyes."

A fish that uses more energy than it takes in will waste away and die.

"I certainly wouldn't want you to start wasting away right in front of my eyes."

The day's wasting away and you've got your new job to be learning."