Decomposition in an untumbled tumbler slows down to a crawl.
If root system growth slows or stops, the plant's ability to obtain nourishment is greatly reduced.
When roots are cramped, top growth slows or ceases, health and disease resistance drops, and plants may become stressed despite applications of nutrients or watering.
Inflation slows down economic growth, and it's the most cruel to the poor and also to the elderly and others who live on fixed incomes.
This slows our economic growth, it lowers the value of the dollar overseas, and it aggravates unemployment and inflation here at home.
It is often a good plan to begin with a fast bowler at one end and slows at the other.
That good slows are effective, particularly against county twenty-twos, is proved by the analysis of R.
In writing about slowswe cannot pass unmentioned the great advantage derived from making a ball twist in from the leg.
If, however, a slow bowler is hit about much, he should be changed at once, as the hits from slows generally add up quicker than those from round-arm.
When slows are put on in a match, the long-stop is usually changed to a position about twelve yards behind the bowler's head.
That is the Sacramento River, a stream whose course you ascend for 307 miles and cross eighteen times between Sacramento and Sisson,” he answers, rising and leaving the car as the train slows up and stops at a station.
Our train slows up and stops for water at one of these oases in the desert, and looking out the window I discover that it is quite a town.
A cleansed, healed body becomes far more efficient at digestion and assimilation; a body that is kept on a raw food cleansing diet will initially lose weight rapidly, but eventually weight loss slows to virtually nothing and then stabilizes.
Growth hormone also maintains muscle tone and its presence generally slows the aging process.
Eating food lacking fiber greatly reduces the volume of the chyme and slows peristalsis.
When a non-sweet fruit is eaten such as an apple, it should be eaten with some almonds or other nut or seed that slows the absorption of fruit sugar.
Throughout the day we swing through calm seas, shying at each crazy angle of the zigzag in a turn that slows the measured beat of the engines.
She slows and fades back into the mist, grows again from gloomy shadow to threatening detail, steadies at a point for a few minutes, and resumes the round of her previous motions in irritating cycle.
We face a blast of wind that slows our speed and brings with it the first big drops of rain.
This naturally removes them from their regular firing positions beside the pieces, reduces the accuracy and slows up the entire action of the battery.
Because growth slows perceptibly at sexual maturity, it is possible, by examination of growth-rings, to estimate the age of puberty in mature specimens.
Minor growth-rings form when growth slows or temporarily stops during periods of quiescence; no new layer of epidermis is formed.
This is corrected by the governor, but the correction is usually carried too far and the machine slows down.
To see to this a brace of brawny sharps is stationed by each pole with clubs in their willin' hands to reemonstrate with any hoss or gent who slows down or stops as he goes onder the gander.
In fact, it may be stated that any disease or condition which increases the blood pressure generally slows the pulse, unless the heart itself is affected.
It is a familiar physiologic fact that stimulation of the vagi slows the heart or even stops it.
Unfortunately, during fever processes, digitalis in ordinary doses rarely slows the heart; and while it might slow the heart if given in large doses, it would also cause too powerful contractions of the ventricles.
His overweight is not only a handicap in that itslows down his movements, but it tends to slow down all his vital processes as well and to overload his heart.
Nothing less than a calamity slows him down and then only temporarily; while the slow, patient, mild and passive individual is acting slowly, patiently, mildly and passively in spite of all goads.
Let him, who, for speculative profit or partisan purpose, without just warrant would seek to disturb or dispel this assurance, take heed before he assumes responsibility for any act which slows our onward steps.
However, it seems like they're something that slows you up the way a muddy road slows up a hoss.
Aconite slows the pulse, diminishes arterial tension, and lowers the temperature of the body in fevers.
In bowling, Oxford had Mr. Ridley, whoseslows were rather fast and near the ground.
Children comprehend much and very rapidly if we can only refrain from explaining, but this slows down intuition, tends to make casuists and prigs and to enfeeble the ultimate vigor of reason.
Writing, the deliberation of which fits age better than youth, slows down its impetuosity many fold, and is in every way farther removed from vocal utterance than is the eye from the ear.
It is a dry soil condition in which plant growth slows or stops and plant survival may be threatened.
Growing Vegetables West of the Cascades, recommended somewhat wider spacings on raised beds than I did in 1980 because I'd repeatedly noticed that once a leaf canopy forms, plant growth slows markedly.
But now I see that unseen competition for root room alsoslows them down.
Once the blood coursing from my shins slows and clots, I take an opportunity to inspect the damage more closely.
I slow my breathing down gradually and, amazingly, her breath slows down along with mine, until we're both breathing great, slow breaths.
Joe took Mike by the shoulder, and walked him off in the direction of a man in a Zingari blazer who was bowling slows to another of the M.
But Adair and Psmith, helped by the wicket, had never been easy, especially Psmith, who had taken six wickets, his slows playing havoc with the tail.
Once he skied one of Wyatt's slows over the net behind the wicket; and Mike, jumping up, caught him neatly.
The squadron leader slows his tiny ship and continues to steer toward the sun, Athena.
Slows to sub-light and raises entry shields, makes other preparations to enter atmosphere.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "slows" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
