From that hour onwards it slackens perceptibly, ducks flying fewer and fewer and at increasing intervals up to noon or thereby, when spoils are collected and the day's sport is over.
This intermittent flight slackens off for an hour or so at midday, is renewed in the afternoon, and stops dead one hour before sun-down.
The more the yachtsman slackens out his jib and foresail, or the smaller he makes these sails, the less their power will be to turn the boat in the direction B.
The more the yachtsman slackens out his sail, the more it will help the boat along.
If the strap slackens at all after much use, it can be readjusted by a piece of extra string wound tightly round.
He frequently succeeds in the Passionate Parts of the Tragedy, but more particularly where he slackens his Efforts, and eases the Style of those Epithets and Metaphors, in which he so much abounds.
All that lowers the tone andslackens the energies must be abandoned.
Probably nothing more effectually slackens our efforts in the spiritual life than the sense of unreality which haunts us as we deal with God and the unseen.
No one tries to shirk the fact that the Executive Committee has fallen into desuetude, from which, when the stress slackens enough to permit ceremonial that has not an immediate agitational value, it may some day be revived.
As the revolution recedes into the past the process of change slackens speed.
But there are more or less lengthy halts; the pace slackens at times, especially when the temperature falls.
I hear the rhythm of his breathing alter; it slackens and goes slow; then it jerks again, and I know that he is awake.
Day after day, in all kinds of weather, the airman must go up, for the battle seldom slackens and never pauses on the earth beneath.
The cold of Massachusetts, as he discovered, is very different from the iron frost which shuts down on the Canadian prairie and never slackens its grip for months together.
If a horse slackens speed when near a fence, and suddenly runs out, his rider should let him refuse and take him at it again.
It follows as a necessary consequence that one slackens in his pursuit, and the other neglects to be worthy of further advances, or thinks she becomes so by the practice of solid qualities.
Away to the left, where the artillery have been busy all day, the shelling slackens as the light fades, and the rifle shots grow more and more frequent.
If the wettingslackens the threads, pull them tight.
Meal, or petre, added to a fuse quickens it; sulphur slackens it.
Nearly opposite to Grutli, the steamboat slackens its speed, and moves slowly and solemnly by a small chapel, with an open front, and filled with rude paintings of scenes in Swiss history.
Yet not so sacred is Grutli as the land upon the opposite side of the lake, where the steamer slackens its speed as we are passing a little chapel that is built upon the margin of the lake.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "slackens" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
