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How to use recede in a sentence

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In his latest film, he evokes the lost glamour of the Jazz Age, blurring lines until the image seems to recede into misty memories.
On the other hand, brightly colored variegated ribbon grass planted behind catmint backlights the catmint and makes its flowers recede.
Small dashes of bright primary and secondary colour taint the heavier earth tones, but recede into the moody hues of the whole at a distance.
The perspective of horses and men then appears to be foreshortened so that they recede into depth.
Smokeless tobacco stains and wears down your teeth, causes your gums to recede and produces mouth sores.
They seem to recede into his head, which is shaved and lumpen and looks like it was built for beating on.
As the ridges began to recede from the river, kills flowed down to expend themselves in the Hudson.
Give yourself a little time to let the sadness recede and then make a decision.
She stood perfectly still, listening to his footsteps recede down the hall.
Fragments of the numbers seem to emerge from or recede into the gestures and sfumato of the ground.
He let his eyes take in the sorry sight of the man and felt his anger recede a little.
He told her how he had been suddenly placed in a position of terrible difficulty, from which neither honour nor duty would allow him to recede.
Planes parallel to the picture plane have unforeshortened perspectives however far they recede from the eye.
If there is no contamination in the Gulf and if oystermen can recede, it will take a minimum 18 months for the oysters to come back.
Such plant life seems to appear out of nowhere when the snow and ice recede.
In September the dry, north-eastern winds return and the wet weather begins to recede.
She leans slightly toward the left, as if to steady her balance in a hallway where walls and floor recede precipitously toward the right.
My fears of an unflattering portrait with a Pinocchio nose begin to recede.
These dots appear like perforations in a three-dimensional surface that, close up, seems to bulge and swell and recede.
Public tumults and tragedies gradually recede into the past and become less emotionally fraught for all of us.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The bed of the river is gravelly, or composed of waterworn stones, which diminish in size as you recede from the mountains.
Unlike any other wall with which he had had experience, this wall seemed to recede from him as he approached.
Moreover, the task was half-accomplished, and it would be idle to recede now.
As we recede from anthropomorphism we must go either to the Trinity or Pantheism.
The door to Brother Lorenzo's cell began to recede, swelling in volume as it did.
The faces of the volutes must recede from the edge of the abacus inwards by one and a half eighteenths of that same amount.
This species is not found in running water but is a secondary burrower that will burrow when waters levels recede.
Nor are we disposed to recede from our assertion made in sec.
It seemed to advance and to recede as the hail drove before it denser or thinner.
As I watched, the planet seemed to grow larger and smaller and to advance and recede, but that was simply that my eye was tired.
Newman answered nothing, but he detained the marquis as the latter was beginning gracefully to recede.
The Cabinet will recede more and more from our principles, our party.
At the crotch or junction, these flukes slightly overlap, then sideways recede from each other like wings, leaving a wide vacancy between.
De Bracy and I will instantly go among these shuffling cowards, and convince them they have gone too far to recede.
But do not deceive yourself into a belief that I will ever recede.
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