Example Sentences

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He emphasised Alderney was "still open for business" and the outbreak was subsiding.

From BBC • Jul. 31, 2021

Even as the pandemic was subsiding in New York City in January, Saint Peter’s suffered a new trauma: Severe flood damage from a ruptured municipal water main.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 11, 2021

Fernando Siringan, a climate change expert, has studied Sitio Pariahan closely and said some delta areas north of Manila were changing rapidly because land was subsiding and water levels rising at the same time.

From Reuters • Nov. 29, 2019

But, on Tuesday, Scherzer expressed gratitude that it was subsiding oblique pain and not something worse.

From Washington Post • Apr. 24, 2019

The pain was subsiding, translated now into a dull spreading ache.

From "The Chocolate War" by Robert Cormier