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Example sentences for: slowed

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Scientists slowed the speed of light by a factor of 20 million.
The Los Angeles Times goes with a Justice Department report that prison growth slowed last year--finally responding to a 5-year-old drop in the crime rate.
Atlanta's sprawl keeps people sitting in their cars for hours, encouraging them to eat fatty fast food and run down kids who, bloated and logy from their indoor lifestyle, bike-less and slow, staggering along on foot, slowed by 35-pound backpacks, make easy targets and a sickening sort of "squish" sound.
The metabolism of obese dieters never slowed enough to explain how quickly their weight bounced back.
Comparison of the growth rate of line A with that of wild-type cells in the presence of T-RA, shows that line A is less sensitive to the anti-proliferative effect of T-RA than wild-type, however growth is eventually slowed compared to undifferentiated cells (Fig.