tapered
IPA: tˈeɪpɝd
adjective
- Narrowing gradually towards a point.
- (obsolete) Lit with a taper.
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Examples of "tapered" in Sentences
- This is how we've seen it early in the day, and then it kind of tapered off a little bit.
- The Queen pulled back on the cross, leaving the Governess holding the thin tapered dagger that had been concealed inside.
- One of them is the so-called tapered spacer that is designed, much like a restrictor plate, to limit horsepower by restricting airflow to the engine.
- The frames are molded in Uni-Directional UD carbon fiber and boast all the standard features such as tapered head tubes and press-fit BB30 bottom brackets.
- While the Santa Ana winds seemed to have kind of tapered down just a little bit, Chad Myers in the Weather Center, you give us the more accurate view of how things stand.
- Over the months, they'd gotten a case or two that way, but as time went on, the calls tapered off, as word of their father's demise worked its way through the hunters 'grapevine.
- For sometime, I felt privileged but then again, my visits to Mexico kind of tapered and then they raised the price to $1440.00 annually for 1400 anytime minutes per month, which I hardly use anymore.
- - Straight-ended sunk keys, also called tapered driving keys - in this case the shaft and the hub (or the machine parts in question) are mounted as in normal use and the sunk key driven in subsequently.
- As the term tapered to an end, things went from bad to worse with her; and since, besides, the parting with Evelyn was at the door, she was often to be seen with red-rimmed eyelids, which she did not even try to conceal.
- It was really bad for a while -- close to intolerable like yours -- then it kind of tapered off, then it was off-again, on-again as now, with blissful periods of complete absence so there is something to look forward to.
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