Example sentences for: subside

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

  • The assaults on plausibility began in the first frames of Con Air , as Nicolas Cage's character returned home from Operation Desert Storm in a tugboat, and did not subside until Sam Neill mutated into some kind of space devil at the end of Event Horizon , whereupon his face inexplicably broke out in a crosshatched design that made him look like a slab of grilled ahi tuna.

  • El Niño, officially known as El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO), works like this: Every three to eight years, for some inexplicable reason, the trade winds that usually blow west from South America to Australia subside.

  • El Niños bring lots of rain to the region, and if they subside, there may be too little water to sustain the Sun Belt.)

  • Technological advances generally come in waves that crest and eventually subside.

  • And only after the 30 th week do the risks of long-term brain damage begin to substantially subside.


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