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Example sentences for "recede from"

  • Defn: To start back; to recoil; to recede from a purpose.

  • To withdraw a claim or pretension; to desist; to relinquish what had been proposed or asserted; as, to recede from a demand or proposition.

  • Not stable; not standing fast or firm; unstable; prone to change or recede from a purpose; mutable; inconstant.

  • As a matter of fact Assemblyman Collum, who voted for the amendment March 9th, voted on March 22d to recede from it.

  • For example, when we approach or recede from a physical object we have a series of experiences which are recognized as sensational.

  • As I recede from a house I have a whole series of visual experiences differing from each other and ending in a faint speck which bears little resemblance to the experience with which I started.

  • When I am near it, the visual experience is not just what it is when I recede from it.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "recede from" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    about two miles from; actual experiment; also used; being suspended; burned alive; caught himself; could swear; cried the; dazzling light; each tribe; feel like; fellow prisoners; flung himself; interesting story; looking youth; muriatic acid; often difficult; often followed; public disputation; recede from; should exist; then started