| Scattered depressions in the desert fill with water after a rainfall, retaining an alkaline residue as the water evaporates. |
| Pale knuckles rasped against its worn surface, falling in gentle depressions in the wood made by countless other such actions. |
| Most of the worst recessions and depressions occur the year following an election. |
| They tolerated the gyrations of the business cycle more willingly, including dozens of recessions and several deep economic depressions. |
| In novice marijuana users, rarely in regular users, marijuana may precipitate reactive or neurotic depressions. |
| For example, he considers economic depressions to be the intensification of the competitive process. |
