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Sentence Examples Finance Minister Milen Velchev believes that the grey economy has receded in Bulgaria in recent years, albeit by a modest degree. As the economic recession abated, its relevance receded in popular culture. As we passed overhead, the glare of the moonlight on the water receded, and with our goggles, we could see a wake behind the ship. Although the waters eventually receded and the apes returned to land, their aquatic adaptions remained. The water level has receded to expose the entire site, leaving the work as a low white spiral mound embedded in blindingly white salt flats. Residents looked on in tears as water receded slowly, offering the first glimpses of streets, squares and ground floors submerged in mud. But yesterday villagers chose to party and have a good time, as they could do nothing more than wait until the flood waters had receded. As The Island gradually receded into the distance, the sun was still shining. Even after the surface flood water has receded, the soil may remain saturated for some time. But although the waters may have receded, the aftermath of one of the world's biggest natural disasters has only just begun. Within a few months of his swearing the oath that he was to break in so many ways, the President receded from both these pledges. Thanks to environmental advocacy over the past decade, the threat of industrial pollution has receded slightly. The threat of a tube strike over anti-terrorist safety measures receded today when a drivers' union decided not to ballot for industrial action. Those mysterious years of coldness receded into the background as our children grew up and moved on. I could not believe that he would keep this up and that once his grief receded a little, then so would his anger. With the tinted lenses blocking out the worst of the bright sunlight, her headache receded to its previous dull ache. I looked into his kind and intelligent eyes, and instantly all of my doubts receded. Just as the trauma of my previous imprisonment receded, the financial reality began to kick in. The pain receded after what seemed like an eternity, fading to a throbbing. Towns were levelled by tidal waves which left bodies wedged in trees as the waters receded, Indonesian officials and witnesses said. Show More Sentences Her nose narrowed and took on an aquiline cast, while her forehead receded from her brow. The windows of buildings were filled with a liquid dark and alleyways receded into nothing. He said Thursday the water had not receded enough for technicians to assess the damage. Footsteps receded down the corridor and melted into the low hum of talk from the banquet. A shopkeeper in Anmin said the smoke soared to the height of a factory smokestack but receded after about 10 minutes. At Dillard, floodwaters receded to reveal muck, debris and tangled tree branches. The sea receded gradually from the promenade, which then looked out over acres of smelly tidal mud. As they receded in the late fifties and early sixties the political space in which to develop a progressive agenda expanded accordingly. As they rode the fire receded to a faint glow pocketed in the otherwise dark of the desert night. During the 14th and 15th centuries, rabbit farming was extended into marginal areas as arable farming receded. Towards the middle of the period the climate became warmer and milder, the glaciers receded, and the continental interiors became drier. It had receded to 12.5 feet by Saturday afternoon, just above the 12-foot flood mark. The voices thinned down and receded slowly, the owl fluttered its wings and took off from the tamarind tree. When the glaciers melted and receded, the copper and rock were dropped from the ice sheets and became part of the glacial deposits. As the dotcom bust receded and the leverage inflated the next boom, the wager looked like a good one. As the Cold War receded into history, the new world order was redefined again. Alas, the halcyon days have receded, giving way to a cold new era in which executives actually have to earn their personal millions by making real money for their investors. The war on terrorism continued in 2003 but the insecurity of the previous year receded, allowing Americans to return to a more normal pattern of travel at home and abroad. He heard her indrawn breath, and suddenly the flashing lights in front of his eyes dimmed, and the inexorable pounding behind his left eye receded into the night. The salvia has receded, but the radicchio is still coming up, and I have phlox and pincushions, and there's an evergreen and some holly there in the back. Show More Sentences She possesses an almost Cubist face, with a receded hairline and crooked grimace, that looks like a death mask. Once the Japanese threat receded, the old laws were reintroduced. The sea had receded and scudded harmlessly onto the beach, the water sparkling in the sunlight. Though the threat of some biohazards receded for workers in health-care and other human services, the threat of others, such as hepatitis B virus, grew. The account of this 'fire and smoke' remains powerfully in a reader's mind long after the whims and eccentricities of minor characters have receded in the memory. Compared with 24 healthy subjects, the patients had receded mandibles, long lower faces, and downward development of the mandible on lateral cephalometry. These may be examples of a flood event that carried everything from trees to tiny seeds downstream until water levels receded and the load was dropped and deposited. Ten years after the end of the Cold War, the threat of a nuclear Armageddon has receded, but the collapse of world communism and its repercussions are still works in progress. Evidently, as the water slowly receded in the city, the museum's ground floor took on water from hydrostatic pressure through cracks in the concrete slab. As the guard's footsteps receded, we let out a collective sigh. When the waters receded, they left a broad plain of highly saline soil. By evening the water had receded but the electricity wasn't back. Although floodwaters receded slightly yesterday, authorities were watching rising water levels farther downstream on the Danube, Isar and Inn rivers. It was the hippest square show on television, even as it has since largely receded from view. The storm surge had no sooner receded than volunteers and donations began to pour in from seemingly everywhere. Much of the water has receded, but the damage is already done. When the sea ice receded from the coast of Nunivak Island in Alaska, it left 11 muskoxen trapped on a small islet offshore, doomed to die of starvation or thirst. The pain receded, the feeling of sensual pleasure slid away from her. Although toxic floodwaters receded inch by inch, only five of New Orleans' normal contingent of 148 drainage pumps were operating, the corps said. While the Giants receded into two decades of mediocrity, the Jets took over New York. Show More Sentences The death toll was expected to rise as flood waters receded, allowing rescuers to reach stranded vehicles. Impossibly, after the water receded, the cat was found asleep on a chair jammed in a tree. Mary continued to exhibit signs of pregnancy until July 1555, when her abdomen receded. Garnet, convinced that the threat of an uprising had receded, travelled the country on a pilgrimage. Coomaraswamy, receded in importance in the face of the economic conditions. Although the number of amateurs remained high between the wars their ability to match their professional counterparts gradually receded. After the incorporation of University College Dundee, St Andrews' various problems generally receded. The economy receded due to the 2010 earthquake and subsequent outbreak of Cholera. In summer when the springs receded, water was lost through these holes at a rate greater than the available supply. But while his public profile receded, his private life blossomed. About 10,000 years ago, long after the sea had receded, a glacier scanted the region and carved odd formations, like pillars and buttes. But then, once this swelling tide has receded, what happens? Its geographical range expanded and contracted with the alternating cold and warm cycles, forcing populations to migrate as glaciers receded. Each year, the river brought its deposit of rich, red silt at floodtime. When the flood receded, the Mohave planted his corn, his squash and beans. The residential areas of Marchmont and Bruntsfield are built along a series of drumlin ridges south of the city centre, which were deposited as the glacier receded. As the ocean receded from the beach it left the sand appearing wrinkled. Mercenaries were expensive, however, and as the threat of invasion receded in the 10th century, so did the need for maintaining large garrisons and expensive fortifications. As glaciers receded, AMH moved deeper into the Eurasian interior. Survivors rushed to the open space of the docks for safety and watched as the water receded, revealing a sea floor littered with lost cargo and shipwrecks. Faced with population pressures from the Thule and other surrounding groups, such as the Algonquian and Siouan to the south, the Tuniit gradually receded. Examples from Classical Literature And the tea-party, under Gino's adroit management, receded ever and ever before her. The hills on either hand were rounded and low, but increased in height as we receded from the parang river. And as Joan forgat Kernsberg and her revenge, Rome and his mission receded into the background of the young man's thoughts. The remainder of the big room receded into a grey twilight encircling the patch of luminance. Tycho's father and mother receded from the bargain, and refused to part with their son. As Maria's erotism later found satisfaction in her father, her love toward the moon steadily receded. In a moment the fleshly image receded, it sank back into the darkness. The dream of the ultimate brain had receded into a tenuous haze far in the background of his thoughts. He pictured the soma cascading through his body, and the pain receded. Slowly the Ohio receded from him, somber, implacable, sphinxlike. Uncas, with instinctive quickness, receded, and the three foresters held another of their low, earnest conferences. Into this I receded every now and then, alone and unwatched. Even my preoccupation about the Time Machine receded a little from my mind. Sometimes the mountains receded, and gave place to beautiful plains and noble forests. As the fighting receded from our position for a moment, Thuvia turned toward me with a question. As the sampan receded from the saurians, they approached the bait. The further we receded from the object we beheld, the larger became the field of vision. A shallow sandbank had appeared in the sea and the water had receded from the beach. In both cases, the gesture of the author often receded in favor of harder lines, more dissonant sounds, and seriality. The waves had receded, leaving bits of dark debris upon the ground. Show More Sentences The airships receded down a great vista, an im mense perspective, and the blunt prow of each was adorned with a black eagle of a hundred feet or so spread. After Jawara was overthrown by the military in 1994, Camara receded into private life due to a Decree 89 that banned him and others from participating in party politics. Find more words! 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