Example Sentences

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Over the last couple of years, Smith’s muscles have slackened somewhat.

From New York Times • Feb. 10, 2022

He acknowledges that sales have slackened at One57 because of all the towers rising around it, with just two deals going into contract from January to June.

From BusinessWeek • Oct. 2, 2014

In the year since the Court fight, the President may have seemed to have slackened his pace because other of the people's representatives have bestirred themselves.

From Time Magazine Archive

"The problem," he says, "is that security standards have slackened, and virtually everybody who has access to nuclear materials could steal something."

From Time Magazine Archive

To have provided a more rational and plausible representative of orthodoxy would, I think, have slackened the pace and chilled the atmosphere of the novel.

From A Writer's Recollections — Volume 2 by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.