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    Use "receding" in a sentence

    receding example sentences

    receding


    1. While perhaps receding in the popular imagination, the image of the "dirty old man" that chases after young women has not disappeared


    2. One needs to notice the tiny pinpricks of ship's lanterns receding into the distance


    3. I listened dumbly to the sound of receding footsteps and the soft snick of a door closing and being locked


    4. ‘I thought of that and asked her to describe him, explaining that you had two brothers … it was the best I could come up with on the spur of the moment … the receptionist said he was in his forties, overweight, hair receding a little and wearing a posh looking suit


    5. He blatantly didn’t believe I was here because of JJ and it just so happens that he’s forty something, tubby with receding hair …’


    6. As soon as it was quiet from the receding stampede, a herd of something else meandered into the area at a slow deliberate pace


    7. from the receding lick of a black brick hearth


    8. beneath a receding moon and become


    9. His face is long and thin, his hair receding and lank, unlike anyone that she has ever been close to before, but his eyes pierce her


    10. Chloe and Kaitlyn looked at Harry's receding back, then to each other, then back to Harry

    11. Harry watched his receding back, looked at Kaitlyn's smile and then espied Captain Perry at the top of the gangway


    12. There were fronds at all distances, receding into the distance in this incredibly flat country


    13. With this receding from madness


    14. The past while receding into


    15. Herold’s art was receding


    16. characters of the approaching and the receding sound waves, I


    17. ’ But as he looked at the receding valley he was sure he saw a figure, right near where they’d left the shelter


    18. He was in his fifties, average build and a pleasant face, but seemed to have too much forehead, an effect which was exaggerated by his receding hairline and thinning brown hair which seemed to want to stand straight up


    19. It showed the base receding, but he was sure they were travelling forwards and this was a rear view


    20. A jagged piece of slate sliced through our mooring rope and I gulped as we suddenly found ourselves staring down at the rapidly receding ground

    21. My heart was thumping loudly as I gently grabbed the receding doorknob and followed it inward


    22. Standing there, with my wife, my love and my life, we watched the green hills of England receding over the horizon


    23. On a man, the receding chin, sloping forehead, and buck teeth are bad enough


    24. Both had receding hairlines, sloping foreheads and somewhat bumpy complexions


    25. The poor guy, with those big round ears, and the receding hairline over the sloping brow, he probably thought he was God’s gift to all the female Lacertabians in the world


    26. And then Blaine heard his hard leather shoes receding down the hallway


    27. As the damage progresses it becomes more and more noticeable with the gum tissue receding back causing the tooth to look longer as more of its root surface is exposed


    28. His hairline was receding and he had thinning hair


    29. Although Alaska was warming, some glaciers had been receding since just after the Little Ice Age, some remained stable, and some were growing


    30. acidic liquid sloshed about him before receding down the waste drain

    31. answer to rejuvenation once the receding hairline turned to a shiny patch


    32. thinning grey hair receding from his round face, but had not once


    33. nervous hand through his receding hairline


    34. That’s when he noticed the water receding quickly,


    35. The mayor, a chubby, round-faced man with a receding hairline and thick black-


    36. The receding water had dragged him about two


    37. The next morning, the beach was still strewn with flowers that the receding tide had left on the sand


    38. I picture the State receding into the distance of my mind's horizon


    39. from the door and turned, his footsteps receding quickly, leaving


    40. He had a professorial look about him: receding hairline, neat beard, glasses, and greying hair

    41. Behind them, the smooth black lake reflected the receding moon


    42. It was dusk, and the receding sun cast long shadows across the junk strewn farmyard


    43. A hint of mimosa on the air, rising mists turning hills into receding cut-outs, a callistemon splashing its scarlet among the green, lorikeets screeching in the grevilleas, and a million cicadas chirruping in unison


    44. “We have to get the El fish back!” he cried, pointing down the right fork of the river where the children saw one last glimpse of the fat, green frog receding into the forest at a mad pace


    45. Forest-shrouded hills receding in criss-crossing diagonals


    46. Reeling in the petal to his outstretched hand, the Dangler gave the Riverlilly a formal bow and then stepped backward, receding into the orchard with an air of finality


    47. In receding back into the fetal position


    48. Receding hair lent the pale head an innocent blandness


    49. He was a small man rounded in shape with receding blonde hair and had the look and smile of one hilarious character


    50. Likewise, the receding river waters would have salvaged some of its onams from the riverbanks that the floods inundated














































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    Synonyms for "receding"

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    "receding" definitions

    a slow or gradual disappearance


    the act of becoming more distant


    (of a hairline e.g.) moving slowly back