Receding Sentence Examples

If the current is on while the bob is receding the vibration is checked.

Idealism was receding for the moment.

If instead of receding the sea rose continuously at the rate of ioo ft.

Xander's eyes glowed with hunger, and his fangs were receding in a way not remotely human.

The means by which we got here is receding into the past.

As the sun rises, the rays enter the prisms more and more obliquely, and the angle of minimum deviation increases; but since the emergent ray makes the same angle with the refracting edge as the incident ray, it follows that the parhelia will remain on the parhelic circle, while receding from the inner halo.

There are indications that the bed of Lake Victoria, as well as that of Chakmaktin, is rapidly silting, and that the shores of the latter are gradually receding farther from the foot of the hills.

The Eastern Ghats stretch in fragmentary spurs and ranges down the Madras presidency, here and there receding inland and leaving broad level tracts between their base and the coast.

Vogel of Potsdam, by repeated measurements of the motion of Algol in the line of sight, showed that the star is always receding from us before the loss of light and approaching us afterwards.

If it's just a receding hairline, I recommend not hiding it, but exaggerating it.

Hair loss from braids that are too tight sometimes manifest as a receding hairline.

The head is long and somewhat narrow, the forehead broad and receding, with overhanging brows, the eyes sunken, large and black, the nose thick and very broad at the nostrils.

The lower jaw is heavy; the cheekbones somewhat high, and the chin small and receding.

Cattle-breeders did well in 1889, but sheep-breeders fared better; on the other hand, owing to receding prices, corngrowers were more disheartened than ever.

The people themselves are described as of " middle height, broadchested and muscular, with remarkably large hands and feet, the eyes large, the forehead round, and not narrow or receding in many instances, the nose broad, the mouth large and disfigured with betel."

This is really an accretion of undetermined liabilities which has been indefinitely, and probably alternately, advancing and receding for a great number of years, and which no previous minister of finance, or Turkish government, had the courage to face.

From Luang Prabang the river cuts its way southwards for two degrees through a lonely jungle country among receding hills of low elevation.

The human type is always very brachycephalic, with brow receding sharply and long nose making almost one line with the sloping forehead.

Complete adaptation to an infinitely receding ideal is impossible, and relative adaptation depends on the distance between the actual and the ideal.

H is a pulley to guide the approaching and receding parts of the belt to and from the beam in parallel directions.

If we do not know values of u outside the figure, we must use advancing or receding differences.

Projecting brows, deeply sunk dark eyes, short noses, either straight or arched, but 'always depressed at the root, and moderately thick lips, with a somewhat receding chin, are general characteristics.

The site on which it is built forms a succession of terraces receding farther and farther from the river.

Most of the Alaskan glaciers are receding, but not all of them; and at times there is a general advance.

The irregularities incidental to use of the spots are escaped by comparing the relative Doppler displacements of the same spectral line as given by the receding and advancing limbs of the sun.

Larmor suggests is due to relaxation of the spring of the surrounding ether by reason of the crowding of the molecules; a shift of 0.17 tenth-metres would, if interpreted by Doppler's principle, have been read as a receding velocity of I I km.

From Grimsby to Skegness traces of a submarine forest are visible; but while the sea is encroaching upon some parts of the coast it is receding from others, as shown by Holbeach, which is now 6 m.

This elevated plateau extends from Dry's Bluff in the north to the Denison Range in the south-west, and although often receding at points adjacent to the sources of the principal rivers, invariably presents a bold crested front to the north, west and east.

Bird Song remained nearly empty during the week and half full weekends when get-away folks from Grand Junction, and sometimes even Colorado Springs or Denver, left the kiddies with grandma and snuck over the mountains for a little R and R. An occasional ice climber continued to remind the group of the receding memories of the recent tragic past.

Origin Members of the upper classes, by repute, often have minor genetic abnormalities like receding chins.

They often have a low, slanting forehead, a receding forehead.

In men however the patern of loss usually starts with a receding hairline which then advances to thin the top of the head.

The same goes for hundreds of older office blocks left high and dry by the receding tide.

A great extent of the English coast is constantly undergoing visible alteration, the sea in some instances receding from the land, and in others gaining upon it.

Fish became stranded in the hull of the vessel during receding tides.

Also there is no worry about receding glaciers, rockfall or early hut starts.

The most common cause of sensitive teeth in adults is exposed tooth roots due to receding gums.

Pictures of the receding waters of the Ouse taken by Mister P in early August 2002.

The photo above shows an interior receding into the distance.

On the other side of the path are many trees receding into the background.

Our people are ebbing away like a rapidly receding tide that will never return.

Inflation is steadily if slowly receding despite the alarmist warnings of many experts.

Blair found himself on a bridge from which the European shoreline was fast receding.

The lips are rotted, receding to reveal a rictus grin.

The vein will keep receding, and you can keep clipping off just the tip once a week until the nail is short enough to suit you.

Psoriasis is usually cyclical, with episodes flaring up for weeks or months throughout the child's life and then receding.

Partial trisomy of the proximal segment of chromosome 13 is much less likely to be fatal and has been associated with a variety of facial features including a large nose, a short upper lip, and a receding jaw.

Are you worried that your thinning hair or receding hairline makes you look older than you are?

Usually genetic, in men it causes receding hairlines, while in women hair becomes thin all over the scalp.

Some men may have a receding hairline as early as their 20s, while others may not see visible recession until their 50s.

The classic baldness pattern begins with a receding hairline forming a characteristic "M" shape with a peak reaching down the forehead, combined with a thinning crown or bald spot at the top and back of the head.

Whether a man chooses to slow, avoid, or embrace his receding hairline, understanding the condition is the first step toward accepting it as a part of his life and style.

People talk about the receding ratings of daytime, but soap ratings really aren't dropping any worse than any other genre of television, daytime or prime-time.

His fangs were receding.

The most interesting feature of the glacial epoch is the extinct Lake Agassiz, which the receding ice of the later glacial period left in the Red River Valley of Minnesota,.

There are signs that this coastal strip was until a geologically recent period below sea-level; and that the coast-line is still receding is evidenced by the history of the town of Muza, once a flourishing port, now 20 m.

The height of the tower is 179 ft., but the ascent is easy by a stair in the wall, and the visitor hardly perceives the inclination till he reaches the top and from the lower edge of the gallery looks "down" along the shaft receding to its base.

A Latin memoir of Tamerlane by Perondinus, printed in 1600, entitled Magni Tamerlanis scytharum imperatoris vita, describes Timur as tall and bearded, broad-chested and broadshouldered, well-built but lame, of a fierce countenance and with receding eyes, which express cruelty and strike terror into the lookers-on.

He accelerated amid a spray of pebbles as he raced after the receding tail lights far up the road.

When we consider the costs of all the wrong decisions ever made—a calculation I don't even know how to approach—we will think of it as a diminishing problem receding into the past.

Rarely had Natasha experienced so joyful a feeling as now, sitting in the carriage beside the countess and gazing at the slowly receding walls of forsaken, agitated Moscow.

Its characteristics are exceptional tallness combined with slenderness and elegance of figure; a face somewhat long, without any special prominence of the cheekbones but having more or less oblique eyes; an aquiline nose; a slightly receding chin; largish upper teeth; a long neck; a narrow chest; a long trunk, and delicately shaped, small hands with long, slender fingers.

The Glacial striae, and the dislocated rocks - moved a few inches or feet from their places, and others, at greater distances, turned over, and beginning to assume the sub-angular form of Glacial boulders - were found precisely as the glacier, receding from the bar, and giving place to the ancient lake, had left them, covered and preserved by sand and gravel washed from the terminal morain.

She sat a long time looking at the receding line of candles reflected in the glasses and expecting (from tales she had heard) to see a coffin, or him, Prince Andrew, in that last dim, indistinctly outlined square.