RECEDE in a Sentence

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37 example sentences for RECEDE, such as:

1. His fine dark hair was receding a little.
2. He seemed neither to advance nor to recede.
3. The sound of the truck receded into the distance.
4. His hair is beginning to recede from his forehead.
5. But do not deceive yourself into a belief that I will ever recede.

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 Meanings and Examples of RECEDE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
recede
 v.  move back; retreat; withdraw a claim or pretension
Classic Sentence: (31 in 3 pages)
1  He had, in truth, gone too far to recede; and yet, in Rowena's present condition, she could not be acted on either by argument or threats.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
2  It seemed to advance and to recede as the hail drove before it denser or thinner.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In III
3  But do not deceive yourself into a belief that I will ever recede.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 56
4  He seemed neither to advance nor to recede.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 45. MR. DICK FULFILS MY AUNT'S PREDICTIONS
5  At the crotch or junction, these flukes slightly overlap, then sideways recede from each other like wings, leaving a wide vacancy between.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 86. The Tail.
6  School and home seemed to recede from us and their influences upon us seemed to wane.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In AN ENCOUNTER
7  Gradually did the country estate and the simple life begin to recede into the distance: gradually did the town house and the life of gaiety begin to loom larger and larger in the foreground.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER IV
8  And yet when he had finished, soon over, and lay very very still, receding into silence, and a strange motionless distance, far, farther than the horizon of her awareness, her heart began to weep.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 12
9  The receding footsteps of the speaker were heard; and, in another minute, the form of Mr. John Dawkins, otherwise the Artful Dodger, appeared.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
10  Her face, encompassed by the blackness of the receding heath, showed whitely, and with-out half-lights, like a cameo.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 3 The Custom of the Country
11  Eustacia stretched her neck forward till she caught a glimpse of a receding back and shoulders; and she felt a wretched twinge of misery, she knew not why.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: 7 A Coalition between Beauty and Oddness
12  Between the brandy which was smoothing out the harsh contours of remorse and Rhett's mocking but comforting words, the pale specter of Frank was receding into shadows.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
13  A minute might have passed, but the sounds were already receding in different directions, and gradually losing their distinctness beneath the echoing arches of the woods.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 32
14  I felt my soul receding into some pleasant and vicious region; and there again I found it waiting for me.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In THE SISTERS
15  He had coarse features, a blunt nose, a convex and receding brow, tumid and protruded lips.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In THE DEAD
Example Sentence:
1  His hair is beginning to recede from his forehead.
2  Recollection picture is piecing together, reminds my you to recede.
3  His fine dark hair was receding a little.
4  As the boat picked up speed, the coastline receded into the distance until finally it became invisible.
5  The sound of the truck receded into the distance.
6  Sitting on the beach, Mrs. Dalloway watched the tide ebb: the waters receded, drawing away from her as she sat there all alone.