The train slowed down so quickly that the alteration of momentum wellnigh threw him off the seat.
Even this was not sufficient to impress upon the stranger that the game was up, and it was not until the "Strongbow" planted another shot within fifty feet of the unknown vessel that she slowed down and hoisted Norwegian colours.
The Zeppelin was still descending; more, she had slowed down considerably, since during the last four minutes she had travelled three hundred yards.
As they came nearly abreast they sloweddown and steamed by, firing their guns rapidly.
Having slowed down as she drew near the enemy, some one on board the latter shouted, "Don't fire, we surrender.
Bullets beating down upon them, shells crumpling and smashing amongst them cut them down by dozens, but neither halted nor slowed down the charging line.
Then when the Anzacs slowedto a walk and came to within arm's length, with their bayonet points up, one of the Germans dropped his hand and flashed out a pistol.
From one cause or another the pace slowed sensibly, although the men themselves were probably unaware of the slowing.
There was a short lull in the gunfire, and the noisy passage of the shells overhead slowed down.
After that the artillery slowed down to a normal rate of fire, a steady succession of bangs and thuds and rumblings, that, after the roaring tempest of noise of the past few minutes, were no more than comparative quiet.
It was only, and even then reluctantly, when there was no longer a visible target before their sights that they slowed up and stopped.
He instructed us to, when they brought Oswald out of the smaller swinging door in the outside hall, to make a path for him and be sure that nobody got to him or slowed him down.
Came down--Commerce is one way going east, and they came down on my side and they slowed down and stopped and asked me, "Has he come down?
He slowedthe car, Vaughn walked and glanced and waved us on.
Baldy slowed down suddenly to a walk, stopped by the horses ahead of him.
Now and then they slowed up to let the tail end of a flock of sheep and goats go by, scrambling and crowding and making silly noises and poisoning the air with their stench.
He slowed up outside of Beetie's house, at Gin's suggestion, and they peered through the windows to see if there was any possibility of joining in.
Teddy slowed down, stopped, backed the car up and started the other way.
He slowed up in his walk, wheeled, and started back to the trading post as though their errand had been finished.
He hit the railroad tracks with a great bump, and slowed down.
He slowed down, for the spray dashed over the wind-shield, and it was plain the swells were increasing, or rather the boat was plunging into a region where they were growing larger.
The chauffeur slowed down and honked as he drew near the turn in the roadway.
At the same time the chauffeur slowed up in front of Alvin and Chester.
Then they slowed up a little as they saw an automobile approaching ahead of them.
The machine also slowed up somewhat as it neared the drive.
His springy step never slowed until suddenly, when he was a hundred yards in front of me, he halted, and I saw him throw up his hand with a gesture of grief and despair.
Hal, in response to a command from Chester, sloweddown suddenly.
Then he turned and rode on after Hal, who had sloweddown to wait for him.
Hal slowed the aeroplane down until it was barely moving and turned to Alexis.
Here Pam slowed up, and held out her hand for the basket.
And now her step was slowedalmost to a standstill.
Her mind apparently was in such rapid progress that her words could n't descend, like passengers at the door of a railway carriage, until the train had sufficiently slowed up.
She had started out almost gaily, the words spilling over each other in their rush to be said, but bit by bit she slowed down, then faltered to a stop.
Other people drove five miles over the legal speed limit and got caught doing it--Lucilla out-distanced them, but fortuitously slowed down just before the highway patrol appeared from nowhere.
He had slowed down, reversed the engine, and quietly passed into a water-lane between some huge barges, looking not a whit disconcerted by the curious gaze of the barge-folk who wondered at his bare feet and soaked overalls.
The panting engine slowed almost to a snail's pace, having only a scant fuel ration with which to negotiate curve and grade combined.
A dun-painted staff car came into view, slowed and swung wide to turn in.
The click-clack slowed and the train shuddered to a stop.
The yacht slowed down and lost way a few yards to the wind'ard of the monoplane.
Five minutes later she slowed down and turned head to wind off the west side of the fortress.
But for this, Fosterdyke would have slowed down and cruised around until the mists dispersed with daybreak.
Five minutes later the airship hadslowed down and had swung round on a course parallel to a homeward-bound Dutchman.
The two torpedo-boats slowed down as they came towards us.
A little further along a couple of wagons slowed up in a patch of moonlight at the side of the road, some ragged little natives hovering round them.
Mollie, as she slowed down to avoid a rut in the road.
Especially when Allen is around," taunted Mollie, as she slowed up her car near the sidewalk.
But as we slowed our pace they provokingly slackened theirs, and when once more we put on steam they did the same.
Presently we slowed down almost to a walking pace, for we had no wish to spill the blood or crush the bones of even obstructive horses.
He slowed down the horse so that I could slip off unheard on to the turf by the roadside.
Instead of pulling up he did a much more ominous thing, he slowed his pace perceptibly.
When the ball slowed up she quit breathing entirely till it settled.
They was wedged in so tight I couldn't see the table, but I could hear the little ball click when it slowed up, and the rattle of chips, and squeals from them that won, and hoarse mutters from the losers.
It had slowed up some making the grade, and while they watched it what should dart out from a bunch of scrub oak but the active figure of Wilfred Lennox.
He slowed up so that she should not be tempted to overexert herself.
He sprang off as the driver slowed down to turn and back up.
He perceived some difference on the Vaterland for which he could not account, and then he realised that the engines had slowed to an almost inaudible beat.
He stuck his head out of the window--it was a tight fit--and saw in the bleak air the other airshipsslowed down to a scarcely perceptible motion.
There came a sudden jolt,--then a creaking sound as the train gradually slowed and then stopped.
One of the disks was badly injured and now slowed and stopped, showing that the blade of one of the four sustaining propellers had been broken, but the remaining three increased their speed.
Davis watched keenly as the black shape slowed in its fall and came to a standstill above the little, tossing boat.
It then started due north, heading directly for Quantico, but by this time something had evidently happened to the burners as the fire went out, and the propellers gradually slowed up.
When the engine slowed down for the third time, however, the aerodrome was not many feet above the river, so that before the engine regained its normal speed the aerodrome touched the water with its propellers still revolving, but very slowly.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "slowed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
