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    Use "subsiding" in a sentence

    subsiding example sentences

    subsiding


    1. In the end, I give in, throwing a dirty glance in the direction of the tormenter standing over me before subsiding against the pillow again


    2. subsiding a little, but it would be hours before they


    3. Carolyn calmed down and stood up, clinging to her mother, her sobs subsiding


    4. He suddenly felt his hopes rising and his fears subsiding


    5. The pain is already subsiding


    6. My allergic reaction was subsiding


    7. tion are mental categories, arising and subsiding with the mind


    8. That means the water is subsiding


    9. roar and the shock wave, the surf subsiding soon after, and


    10. It was subsiding

    11. A soft wail escaped Chloe’s lips and Stephen’s growl was audible as he arched his back and clenched his buttocks for several long seconds before subsiding, kissing Chloe, carefully withdrawing, then rolling onto his back


    12. And finally subsiding


    13. "We had saw how distracted you were," said Joel, and by now the tears were subsiding, "with those books and all, and decided that it would be a good time to check out the rest of the house


    14. She couldn’t understand what was happening to her emotions, and her subsiding anger left her feeling weak and wretched


    15. making him dizzy was subsiding into a chill


    16. As they eventually moved from the circle of light provided by the hotel and into the total blackness that surrounded them and cloaked them, Feltus and the other men turned up the wicks in their kerosene lanterns, suddenly flaring spectacularly then subsiding to cast a dim but well-needed glow to guide their progress; this, combined with the almost-constant flashes of lightning that reminded them of reporters’


    17. The euphoria that had been gripping him was subsiding and he realized that he was drenched in sweat, breathing hard and his upper body ached


    18. The fire in the man’s leg was subsiding as it went numb, a short-lived relief, though


    19. “Brilliant deduction,” Higgins said contemptuously, the fury subsiding in his voice


    20. The pain was subsiding and he didn't feel sick

    21. Events in the world continued at breakneck speed in that much of the massive discontent directed against various governments had turned against the international corporations and showed no signs of subsiding


    22. The rain was intermittent, at times pelting down in gust-driven torrents that rattled against the van, then subsiding to a light drizzle that floated quietly down, enveloping them in an eerie silence until the next peal of thunder


    23. Anyone who leaves his thought subsiding and inactive and lets his desire overcome his thinking will be as a brute beast which knows nothing other than eating and drinking


    24. He slowly drew back the coat from his head, squinting at the brightness of a younger sun, breathing heavily with subsiding anxiety and barely perceptible self-control


    25. With the initial emotional release slowly subsiding, Allen asked, “Are you


    26. He was deep in thought now, his physical rage was slowly subsiding to nothing more than a dull pounding in the back of his skull


    27. The x-rays had proven negative and the tenderness was subsiding in her shoulder


    28. Even the subsiding red-haze of the human sexual aftermath matches the cooling of the Outer Universe after its first explosive entry


    29. The hunger is subsiding


    30. It is a hunger that is not subsiding; a hunger that may be the main part of her therapy

    31. Temper subsiding, the anger drifted away with the approach of this newly acquired


    32. Doubts subsiding, he followed what seemed to be natural


    33. Dismayed, the burning in his chest started subsiding, already giving up


    34. Strolling in at dusk, Sandra would open the books and her eyes would brighten (but not at the print), and subsiding into the arm-chair she would suck back again the soul of the moment; or, for sometimes she was restless, would pull out book after book and swing across the whole space of her life like an acrobat from bar to bar


    35. There was only a comfortable glow that warmed and did him good without putting him into a fever, and he was reluctantly obliged to confess that the boyish passion was slowly subsiding into a more tranquil sentiment, very tender, a little sad and resentful still, but that was sure to pass away in time, leaving a brotherly affection which would last unbroken to the end


    36. my senses subsiding by degrees, and the hour striking at which I was


    37. Above and below, the Ice Bank was subsiding in long gradients


    38. His uneasiness increasing instead of subsiding, after a quarter of an hour's consideration, he set off for the coach-office with Startop, who volunteered his company, to make inquiry when the next coach went down


    39. the stream grew smooth and once more they saw the fish below them, waving its subsiding circles, breaking both the reflections and the transparency


    40. I was now so bruised, so battered, so spent with this overmatch, that I could hardly stir, or raise myself, but lay palpitating, till the ferment of my senses subsiding by degrees, and the hour striking at which I was obliged to dispatch my young man, I tenderly advised him of the necessity there was for

    41. The colonel, thinking it all over, made up his mind not to pursue the matter further, but then for his own satisfaction proceeded to cross-examine Vronsky about his interview; and it was a long while before he could restrain his laughter, as Vronsky described how the government clerk, after subsiding for a while, would suddenly flare up again, as he recalled the details, and how


    42. As I hurried to the stables that lay to the east, I thought the tumult in the residence was already subsiding


    43. His indignation was mounting, now that the initial hurt was subsiding


    44. When Rosamond's convulsed throat was subsiding into calm, and she withdrew the handkerchief with which she had been hiding her face, her eyes met Dorothea's as helplessly as if they had been blue flowers


    45. My Fever was subsiding now and I was coming back as from a Dream


    46. By the time it was starting to work its way back higher up the right side of the base, selling volume was subsiding quite significantly, setting up a pocket pivot buy point on October 29th as the stock came up off the 10-day moving average on volume that was greater than any down-volume day in the pattern over the prior 10 days


    47. Minutes later, the sighs of functions subsiding


    48. ‘The French battalion rushes to the bridgehead, spikes the guns, and the bridge is taken! But what is best of all,’ he went on, his excitement subsiding under the delightful interest of his own story, ‘is that the sergeant in charge of the cannon which was to give the signal to fire the mines and blow up the bridge, this sergeant, seeing that the French troops were running onto the bridge, was about to fire, but Lannes stayed his hand


    49. That afternoon, the thunder of the train subsiding in his body, Underhill struck up through town on his usual path home, newspaper tucked crisply under arm to prevent reading himself past the park


    50. Blood and tissue continued to flow from the ISI director’s mouth with each convulsion, but the force was subsiding as his muscles lost their ability to contract











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    Synonyms for "subsiding"

    settling subsidence subsiding

    "subsiding" definitions

    a gradual sinking to a lower level