slackening

IPA: sɫˈækʌnɪŋ

Examples of "slackening" in Sentences

He felt the train slackening speed, and peered again through the misty window.
Even though data suggests a "slackening" of sales, retailers such as Wal-Mart, Tesco are expanding in China.
Du Plessis blamed the government's transformation policy for what he described as a slackening of the country's security forces
The struggle has caught hold along the whole line and enthusiasm for the lofty aim runs so high that a slackening is no longer to be feared.
QUESTION: Did the prime minister mention anything about the -- did he use the word "slackening," that the U.S. wasn't prepared for this kind of war?
Mike Kenny's adaptation, playing pick-and-mix with the original, pads some scenes, slashes others, slowing the pace and slackening dramatic tensions.
She had gone on for about a mile, and it was growing dark, and her horse was again slackening his pace, when she thought she heard the sound of another horse's hoofs behind her.
Now he studied the sea to windward for signs of the wind slackening or freshening, now the Macedonia; and again, his eyes roved over every sail, and he gave commands to slack a sheet here a trifle, to come in on one there a trifle, till he was drawing out of the Ghost the last bit of speed she possessed.