She had somewhat receded from her first position, that it was better being here in the great strange city than being at home where the very streets shamed them.
The blood that had earlier surged to my face had now all receded again, and my pulses throbbed like hammers.
Then the thunder receded and gradually died away in the distance; the rain ceased; and the dawn crept pale as a moon-stone adown the valley.
As we coasted deeper into the rocky crevasse, the stars receded into the morning light, bowing to the far greater sun which sought dominion over the earth and sky.
The mountains on the south bank receded from the river and were more broken and destitute of trees.
On the Lachoff Islands the principal deposit was on a low sand bank, and the natives declared that when the waves receded after an easterly wind, a fresh supply was always found.
On the main street, from which the waters have recededsufficiently to render access and work possible, bodies are being exhumed.
The water has receded in the night almost as rapidly as it came, and behind it remains the sorriest sight imaginable.
The outer basis of this was laved by the river; but, as it tended eastward, the mountain and river receded from each other, and one of the cultivable districts lying between them was Solesbury, my natal township.
I had promised, not without reluctance, to give thee the entire copy of his letters; but I now receded from this promise.
Presently the wall on one side, and the ceiling, receded beyond my reach.
The height was dizzy, and the walls, which approached each other at top, receded at the bottom, so as to form the resemblance of an immense hall, lighted from a rift which some convulsion of nature had made in the roof.
The interval separating Blaines College and the University of Paris began to loom larger than it had seemed in the halcyon summer-time, and the classic group of noble piles receded further and further into the prophetic haze.
In proportion as we receded from the shore, the clamours seemed to multiply, and the suggestion that the city was involved in confusion and uproar did not easily give way to maturer thoughts.
His forehead receded beyond the usual degree in visages which I had seen.
Are you at this hour nearer your object than on the day you declared war, or has that object, with a steady and sure pace, constantly receded from you as you have advanced in the war?
French Government, receded from our first ground, and included blockades also, you are instructed humbly to request Bonaparte to permit us to do our own business in our own way in future.
I said, sir, that in the course of this arrangement with France, the Administration advanced in their demands on Great Britain and receded as to France.
Nawin stood up and the dream, like flooding river water, receded back to its usual course.
All relationships receded in a world of impermanence, said the atheist bombastic to himself most piously.
At the same time the Commonwealth reduced the tax to ten thousand dollars, and refunded ninety thousand, and finally receded entirely from its unlawful demand.
The description of the territory thus receded was very vague.
But this was disagreed to by the House, and at the second conference the Senate receded from the amendment, so that it was lost.
The hills along the coast were entirely clad with snow, whilst the long undulating ranges, as they receded far back to the horizon, appeared to be buried under the everlasting mer de glace.
The left-hand glacier was rounded off, like a huge icy wave to its end, whilst it receded from our view in long milky undulations until lost in the clouds.
The Indians had, the preceding summer, destroyed most of the corn throughout Kentucky; the game was rapidly decreasing, deer and buffaloes having receded before the advance of settlement, and a temporary famine ensued.
At first, buffaloes were so plenty that a party of three or four men, with dogs, could kill from ten to twenty in a day; but soon the sluggish animals receded before the advance of white men, hiding themselves behind the mountain wall.
Helen had swayed his mind to this intense earnestness of enquiry, but there came times when she, even, receded beyond his conscious thoughts.
A voice bawled in his ear, "The red police," and receded forthwith beyond his questions.
Among the first things to strike his attention had been the great fleets of advertisement balloons and kites that receded in irregular vistas northward and southward along the lines of the aeroplane journeys.
They receded in illimitable vistas in every direction.
The trend of the western coast extending northward from the point opposite our vessel receded westward, and a vacant space, either of unseen very low land or of water, separated it from the Terra Nova, which we see north of us.
They receded with the wind from the southward and eastward, but did not disappear for some time.
For example, at the harbor of Ceylon, the water recededso far that for about three minutes the boats were left high and dry, and then a huge wave carried them with it as it rushed over the land.
The huge wave rolled on, gradually decreasing in height and strength until the mountain slopes at the back of Anjer were reached, and then, its fury spent, the water gradually receded and flowed back into the sea.
Long before the inception of the International Suffrage Alliance I had dreamed this dream; and, though it had receded as I followed it through life, I had never wholly lost sight of it.
When endurance had found its limit she slipped back out of reach, and as his new plaything receded the boy uttered shrieks of disapproval.
They wanted rest, that favorite position of the Grecian sculptor's statuary, and when they thought it nearest then it receded again, flitting on the margin of their expectations like the ignis-fatuus which glimmered through the marsh.
These were the last of the Yemassee tribe, who had intrenched themselves here for protection, all efforts to pursue them being like the enchanted lands, which receded as they were approached.
The Helsingfors program of "synthetic Zionism," the child of the liberty movement, shrank more and more, as the hopes for a Jewish emancipation in Russia receded into the distance.
Phrygian music, harlequined to meet the needs of Forty-second Street and its anchorites, flared and receded with the opening and closing of gilded doors.
She receded from his approaching face close back against the upholstery, and within the satin-down interior of her muff her fingers clasped each other until the nails bit into her palms and broke the flesh.
A shadow came gliding toward her, and she stepped forward; but when the street-lamp fell on the cold eyes and cuttlefish stare she huddled back into her corner until the steps had receded like the stick-taps of a blind man.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "receded" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
