Recede Sentence Examples

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  • After a century and ft half it began to recede rather than to advance.

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  • Add darker colors to the areas you want to recede.

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  • The first two predominate earlier, and gradually recede before the last-named.

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  • Islands are frequent; the banks recede and become lower until, after 50 m., they stand almost level with the water.

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  • Forced to recede from this position, Boniface canonized Louis IX.

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  • It was not Stephens fault that the boundary of England did not permanently recede from the Tweed and the Soiway to the Tyne and the Ribble.

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  • It has no sharp boundary, its brightness diminishes rapidly as we recede from the limb, and such structure as it shows consists of long streaks or filaments extending outwards from the limb in broad curved sweeps.

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  • In all the groups which are at present arboreal, the palaeontological evidence goes to show that their ancestors were likewise so; while since, in the case of modern terrestrial forms, the structure of the wrist and ankle joints tends to approximate to the arboreal type, as we recede in time, the available evidence, so far as it goes, is in favour of Dr Matthew's contention.

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  • Cool tones, such as blue or gray, recede and move away when viewed.

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  • Jacobi, accepting the law of reason and consequent as the fundamental rule of demonstrative reasoning, and as the rule explicitly followed by Spinoza, points out that, if we proceed by applying this principle so as to recede from particular and qualified facts to the more general and abstract conditions, we land ourselves, not in the notion of an active, intelligent creator of the system of things, but in the notion of an all-comprehensive, indeterminate Nature, devoid of will or intelligence.

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  • Cool colors, such as blue, green, white and gray will recede visually when you see them.

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  • They recede from the eye, and can make a small space appear larger than it is.

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  • The dark shadow will create the illusion of a recede, and will help you balance the hooded lid.

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  • As we recede in time we find the extinct representatives of many of these orders approximating more and more closely to a common generalized type, so that in a large number of early Eocene forms it is often difficult to decide to which group they should be assigned.

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  • The walls appear to recede when painted a cool color, expanding the space and making the room feel and look larger.

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  • If your bedroom is small, perhaps you want to make look larger by using a cool color to make the walls appear to recede, or maybe you should embrace the coziness of the space and opt for a warmer, darker shade.

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  • But in every country alike the wave of viking conquest now begins to recede.

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  • For the next four years the limits of the English occupation continued to recede.

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  • These people live all the year round at the water's edge, in huts made of reeds, and change their abodes as the waters advance or recede.

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  • It was impossible for him to recede, and, after accepting the title of Citoyen Egalite, conferred on him by the commune of Paris, he was elected twentieth and last deputy for Paris to the Convention.

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  • But under the influence of the rotation the parts of greater density tend to recede further from the axis than the parts of less density.

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  • As we recede from the coast the fall diminishes, till it is reduced to about 25 or 30 in.

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  • Towards the north the hills recede from the coast and on both sides flats extend for distances varying from 5 to 15 m.

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  • The waters continued to recede, and the tributaries, in cutting their way through the sediment, followed the slope of the land and gradually turned northward.

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  • If we imagine 0 to recede to infinity in any direction we learn that a system of parallel forces proportional to nh, mi,.

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  • It will be seen that unless the conditions be exactly adjusted for a circular orbit the particle will either recede to infinity or approach the pole asymptotically.

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  • They recede visually from your eye when you view them, which can make a small space seem much larger.

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  • After a week the vein will begin to recede, and you can take off the tip again.

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  • Watch waistlines expand, hairlines recede and caffeine jitters become a constant buzz while trying to "tune" a level or two of the game enough for the publisher (the guys who pay the bills) to put said game into the booth.

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  • Watch waistlines expand, hairlines recede and caffeine jitters… okay, so not "everything" has changed.

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  • These exotic aromas don't recede in the mouth either; there's a convention of pears, papaya and honeysuckle flavors that follows with a touch of cleansing minerals.

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  • These patches usually grow and recede in less than a day but may be replaced by others in other locations.

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  • Evidence of an original affinity between Turkoman and Rajput has also been found in the mutual possession by these races of a ruddy skin, so that as ethnographical inquiry advances the Turk appears to recede from his Mongolian affinities and to approach the Caucasian.

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  • The general average for the United Kingdom might then recede to rather less than 28 bushels of 60 lb per bushel, which was for a long time the accepted average - unless, of course, improved methods of cultivating and manuring the soil were to increase its general wheat-yielding capacity.'

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  • In the west and south, and in the south part of the east side, the hills are much lower and recede farther from the sea.

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  • The beauty and tears of Inez disarmed his resolution, and he turned to leave her; but the gentlemen about him had gone too far to recede.

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  • If we now imagine the point 0 to recede to infinity, the forces P, Q and the resultant R are parallel, and we have R=P+Q, P.AC=Q.CB.

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  • But unless the orbit is an ellipse the body will never complete a revolution, but will recede indefinitely from the centre of motion.

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  • East of the same cape there is an abrupt change; the coast is unbroken, the mountains recede inland, and there is shoal-water for a considerable distance from the coast.

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  • The science of geology came into existence, and the whole panorama of successive stages of the earth's history, each with its distinct population of strange animals and plants, unlike those of the present day and simpler in proportion as they recede into the past, was revealed by Cuvier, Agassiz and others.

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  • The more Plato dwelt upon his world of ideas, the more they seemed to recede from the world of reality, standing over against it as principles of condemnation instead of revealing themselves in it.

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  • East of Philippeville the mountains recede from the coast, and the rampart of hills reappears.

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  • It is no doubt important to recognize that the two types of spectra seem to represent two extreme cases of one formula, the significant difference being that in the line spectrum the distance between lines diminishes as we recede from the head, while in the case of the band it increases, at any rate to begin with.

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  • Thus the tribal distinctions began to recede, and the ground was prepared for that amalgamation of the Iranians into a single, uniform nation, which under the Sassanids was completely perfectedat least for west of Iran.

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  • After the second month, the hair around the queen's nipples will begin to recede, and the nipples themselves will become pink and swollen.

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  • A body moving in a parabola or hyperbola would recede indefinitely from its centre of motion and never return to it.

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  • The coasts are in some parts precipitous; in others the mountains recede inland, and the coast is flat and bordered by coral reefs.

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  • The time must eventually arrive when the Boers will be in a small minority, as the country is very sparsely peopled; and would it not therefore be a very near-sighted policy to recede now from the position we have taken up here, simply because for some years to come the retention of 2000 or 3000 troops may be necessary to reconsolidate our power.

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