Example sentences for: receding

How can you use “receding” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • You either live up to it or it waves a hankie, receding forever," and many reviewers seem to see the hankie waving here at the boy wonder who a decade ago wowed the critics with The Mysteries of Pittsburgh . As Michael Gorra says in the New York Times Books Review , "Promising is still the word I'd choose" to describe this collection, "but after 10 years and four books that adjective has to seem a disappointment."

  • Almost every other vampire movie accepts the patently unnatural convention that a vampire's fangs are capable of receding into his gums.

  • But even among the good guys, a marginal physiognomy or a receding hairline can spell doom.

  • Aunified press criticizes the ruling coalition (the Liberal and National parties) for using the tax plan as an election trump card, and an Age editorial blasts the government, noting that there has been "little headway against unemployment, manufacturing export growth has slowed, and the innovation culture was receding."

  • Truman himself encountered him, he wrote, in the form of mysterious knocks on the door and receding footfalls.


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