Sample Sentences for

recede

(editor-reviewed)

The pain is beginning to recede.

For a second, Mr. Sir's pain seemed to recede.  (source) Louis Sachar, Holes, 1998

She keeps her eyes on the piano, forcing the audience to recede into darkness.  (source) Neal Shusterman, Unwind, 2007

He'd dropped his load of driftwood and merely gazed at the receding coach.  (source) Sid Fleischman, The Whipping Boy, 1986

But Gallien persisted, and the more he talked, the more Ellis's skepticism receded.  (source) Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild, 1996

Now, as George and Lydia Hadley stood in the center of the room, the walls began to purr and recede into crystalline distance, it seemed, and presently an African veldt appeared, in three dimensions, on all sides, in color reproduced to the final pebble and bit of straw.  (source) Ray Bradbury, The Veldt, 1950

Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter — tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther… and one fine morning — So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.  (source) F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, 1925

Except for her receding chin Turtle Wexler looked every inch the witch, her dark unbraided hair streaming wild in the wind from under her peaked hat, a putty wart pasted on her small beaked nose.  (source) Ellen Raskin, The Westing Game, 1978

Then the footsteps receded, the whistling grew fainter.  (source) Natalie Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting, 1975

I used to tell Hassan that someday we'd walk on a strip of seaweed-strewn beach, sink our feet in the sand, and watch the water recede from our toes.  (source) Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner, 2003

He rests a moment, withdraws, recedes, rezippers.†  (source) Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale, 1985

And he could smell the sharp odour of exposed kelp from the receding tide.  (source) John Steinbeck, The Pearl, 1947

As soon as the cold water hit his stomach he felt the hunger sharpen, as it had before, and he stood and held his abdomen until the hunger cramps receded.  (source) Gary Paulsen, Hatchet, 1987