subsiding
IPA: sʌbsˈaɪdɪŋ
noun
- The act by which something subsides.
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Examples of "subsiding" in Sentences
- By the end of August, the crisis was subsiding.
- She grinned, exhilarated, and turned to her father, her grin subsiding.
- "Girls 'heads always do ache," answered Tom, subsiding from a roar into a chuckle.
- DUNCAN: It looks like it's going to be kind of subsiding in September, but October is going to be wet.
- The river is subsiding, which is taking the pressure off that wall, but we don't know what's going to happen. "
- Bowman noticed the calm Yeti faces and slowly sat back, his intense expression subsiding into sullen neutrality.
- Resource stocks, particularly, saw the benefit of "subsiding" concerns about European debt, said Commsec economist Savanth Sebastian.
- FedEx attributed recent global economic weakness to factors such as rising oil prices, bad weather and the Japan earthquake and nuclear disaster—constraints that the company said appear to be subsiding.
- Finally, if we are going to play the blame game, let’s be honest with the earliest entries: “Early 1800s — French build levees, which cause the delta mud on the dry side of the levee to begin subsiding below sea levels.”
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