Example Sentences

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By the time patients finish their chemotherapy, which typically lasts about five months, oncologists are hopeful that the swell of COVID-19 cases will have subsided and that surgeries will be possible again.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 12, 2020

Soon the cancellations will have subsided, the robins will be hopping around on green grass, and we can all go back to complaining about other things … like crabgrass, loud motorcycles and the Cubs.

From Washington Times • Apr. 23, 2018

He will have an MRI exam on Sunday with the hope the swelling will have subsided enough for a proper diagnosis.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 23, 2016

Thus the vibrations which always follow the adjustment of the tube will have subsided before the object appears.

From Half-hours with the Telescope Being a Popular Guide to the Use of the Telescope as a Means of Amusement and Instruction. by Proctor, Richard A. (Richard Anthony)

You must put warm poultices on every half-hour, and by to-morrow I hope the inflammation will have subsided, and I can then see about the ball.

From With Lee in Virginia: a story of the American Civil War by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)