How To Use Fading In A Sentence

The light was fading and the sky had rings of black, purple and navy making their way up to the small point of light in the center part of the sky.
Like other sweet pea varieties, give them regular feeds and cut off fading flowers. The Sun
Her smile fading and her expression turning to one of mild confusion, Harstad asked, “I beg your pardon?” Star Trek: Typhon Pact Paths of Disharmony
Good, bad, or meaningless, there it will be: bunchy with fat or sagging from the bone, fading, freckling, wrinkling, and drooping so long as flesh endures. Beginner’s Grace
The image of him was quickly fading from Kathleen's mind, but she remembered his firm chin, with a decided cleft down its middle.

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Their coach comes across as weak, making decisions to cater for the fading hero rather than the good of the team.
To blame their youth, however, is to question the gimmick: two dewy adolescent Russians adding a lesbian jolt to teen pop's fading schoolgirl fantasies.
He pointed to his temples, upon which the last traces of Quiddity's reconfiguration of his flesh was fading. THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW
Houses have been demolished and replaced with flats and it seems the era of when everyone got their milk from the milkman is slowly fading.
The sun was now slowly fading, the sky filled with blues purples and light pinks.
Populated by grotesques and caricatures it was a love/hate letter for an England fading into sepia.
I could see, even in the dim light of my fading lamp, that his skin was pasty and pallid, his eyes dark and cloudy.
Sharon Lawrence as the fading southern belle is great. Channel Surfing | the TV addict
More important, the backlash against genetically modified foods is fading as new studies ease fears about the health and environmental effects of such crops, though serious obstacles still retard their potential abroad.
You walk out of the restaurant with not just the fading gustatory memory but with a razorsharp visual one. Times, Sunday Times
The horrors of the spring were fading as the winners came fast and furious through the autumn. FRANKIE: The Autobiography of Frankie Dettori
He grinned his approval, smile instantly fading as he spotted something in the sand ahead.
There's also a cell lined with sound-proofing pads, on which fading bloodstains are visible.
Pull to snap off fading flowers. The Sun
He roared in unalleviated pain as his whole form when from pure silver to white, then to gray, before finally fading away into nothing, the thing's roar slowly gurgling out as it did.
I always got the tagetes from this, I wonder what it's like in the older stuff, with the florals fading out. Long Lost Perfumes: Niki de Saint Phalle
Fading from mag -2.6 to -2.4 and shrinking in diameter from 43 to 39 arcsec during the month, it is conspicuous near the Moon on the 2nd and again on the 30th. Starwatch: The January night sky
Everything hast thou, O wonder-worthy, God-beseemingly prevented, and now art thou crowned with an unfading crown from the hands of the Almighty The General Menaion or the Book of Services Common to the Festivals of our Lord Jesus of the Holy Virgin and of Different Orders of Saints
A cloud like a fluffy white crocodile basked at the bottom of the vast open fan of fading turquoise sky.
Bad scrambled eggs are beyond the pale: insipid, pale lemon yellow fading to a bilious grey - granular, curdling or lying in a puddle of whey-like liquid.
This paper applies wavelet and fractal theories to analyze multipath fading signal in mobile radio communications for the first time.
The space diversity provided by space -time block coding and the inherent frequency diversity of MC - CDMA can be used together to combat fading effectively.
Clearing its electronic throat, the ship's communi-cator snapped him forcefully back from nebulous realms inhabited by memories of distant dreams and fading visitations. The Chronicles of Riddick
I probably would have hoped that famine was soon to become a fading memory in the minds of elderly people.
The problem with that, unfortunately, is that in my dotage I have rapidly fading memories, and rapidly fading images in my brain of who I did, and how what and when I did what I did, never mind why.
His soft brown strands of silken hair shine in the fading sunlight, gently sweeping into his eyes and over the planes of his face.
It is said that with fading age, the physical and mental faculties do not remain as strong.
For instance, suppose you needed to generate time-varying Rayleigh fading channels based on autoregressive models to support your fading channel simulation. Rambles at starchamber.com » Blog Archive » Me being interviewed in EE Times
With Wall Street again emerging from the bear cave, morbid fear of double dip is fading in the wake of upside corporate reports. The Aviation Boom Market
Treaties covering nuclear proliferation and nuclear testing helped to reinforce the feeling that the immediate danger of nuclear war was fading away.
At the very top was a ruined building, outlined against the fading sky.
A tap at the door preluded its opening, and a middle-aged man with fading red hair walked in, accompanied by his elder daughter.
Illiquidity held a narrow lead a quarter-mile from the finish before fading.
In unison, as a hundred languages choired below them, the imaginary stars and planets lifted into the higher regions of air, sputtering and fading as they caught a sudden wind and scattered, in a babble of fire and voices, over the bay of Istar. The Dark Queen
A load which we must carry with unfading courage and hope.
For months Amara, Greek for unfading, eternal, has been trying to decide how to leave and where to go. A Far-Off Place
Within seconds, the few whirling ripples had smoothed back into an undisturbed mirror surface, reflecting the dark blue of the fading evening sky.
Buyer's deafness: selective, quickly fading, total BLOCKQUOTEage of the audial canal. Sauce for the goose
We developed several outdoor projects with an acrylic fabric often used for boat covers because it's resistant to mildew, water, and fading and it can be cleaned with a hose.
With the land rush fading into history, the Ten Thousand Acres had proven a useful way of opening up a steady trickle of cubage. Analog Science Fiction and Fact
What better could I have done in the smoky warmth of our hearth-fire than to con, by the light of the electric bulb dangling overhead, its annals in some such voluntarily quaint and unconsciously old-fashioned volume as Irving’s Legends of the Conquest of Spain; or to read in some such (if there is any such other) imperishably actual and unfadingly brilliant record of impressions as Gautier’s Familiar Spanish Travels
A photographer tried to capture her in the fading sunlight.
Conservative columnists and pundits are competing to see who can say the pithiest disparaging thing about the fast-fading star from Alaska. Gerald McEntee: Questioning Sarah Palin
According to Professor Spencer, a drop-off in income tax receipts has been the result of the collapse in the technology sector, and the fading fortunes of wealthy financial workers.
Gustav spoke, his voice fading and his armor clanking as he moved away.
This is the full realization of divinity, gently fading into the Absolute in one eternal moment.
When he turned his gaze to regard the trees, he realized that they seemed to be fading in and out of existence whenever he attempted to focus on one.
The numbers are decreasing with every passing year, their writing and painting are gradually fading out, their pages have become fragile and brittle.
The feeling of suspicion faded as soon as she breathed the cool air of the night, the cigar smoke fading into a memory as she moved forward, raising her hood over her curls.
As he stood up against the fading light of the dusk, the hard trek was behind.
Those who believe that the technology is fading into the sunset have not done their homework.
There are some stickers, which are not of very good quality and comprise of a thin transparent film which is printed with a design followed by a layer of top coat, which leads to the weakening of the glue and the fading of the design. SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles - Part 1173
The word amaranthine indicates both eternal, unfading beauty and (as related to the flower) a deep purple-red, and at least on me, Amaranthine is close to eternal - I get a good 24 to 36 hours of fun, and I wouldn't want to overspray. Perfume Posse
It produces large trumpet, ivory white flowers which open a lovely pale primrose yellow, fading gradually to pure white.
Black Narcissus is a fairy tale crossed with sexy nuns locked in feverish desire with a soupcon about the fading British empire. Michael Giltz: Movies: "Blimp" Is Back! British Gem Is Beautifully Restored
* Illumine the eyes of my heart, * you who once gave birth to the unfading Light * Who illumines the ends of the earth * through the fiery sign of His judgment. "Lent is the sacramental expression of the brief life we live here..."
But what a contrast between the music mogul and the fading rock star. The Sun
The honours arrived like a power chord at the end of a fading guitar solo and took them both by surprise. Times, Sunday Times
Not even alicorn-white with pretty blue eyes?" he teased, fading out the checks into a uniform brown. Elvenborn
Life here is shrinking, the horizons drawing in, and the backdrop to our small world seems to be fading and becoming indistinct.
Alongside its class snobbery and scurrilous hilarity this poem also argues that truth cannot reside in a periodical publication: "Truth," Peter declaims, "Lifts her fair head, and looks with brow sublime/On all the fading pageantries of time" (Works 271) and especially on a magazine full of puffery, interest, and sham learning. 'Manlius to Peter Pindar':Satire, Patriotism, and Masculinity in the 1790s
Trading was pencil thin and fading. Times, Sunday Times
It is painful to see such infants gradually fading away over a number of weeks or months, when everybody hopes for a speedy end.
Republicans address report that national money may be fading in Md. gov's race First Click, Maryland:Another poll shows momentum for O'Malley
We are all individual entrepreneurs, personal brands (in that fast-fading lingo), duking it out for mindshare and market penetration.
Rancid and, in normal terms, unwatchable, these bits of film are gradually fading into nothing in archives away from the light and away from the cinema.
We arrived as dusk was approaching, when the moors appeared particularly haunted and the dark silhouette of the castle ruins stood out boldly against the fading light. On the Trail of Merlin - a guide to the Celtic mystery tradition
The stark rock, fading lower green fields, and deep blue of the ocean comes as a shock after the flat lush landscape and bluff coastline that characterises the rest of the county.
Going madly off into a fading teevee breakdown, a degenerating of colors to boil down to utter depressing greys, greys of all shades, deepening into the blankest of the most depressing color there is, that which is totally empty of color, the color of tears. From the Shambles
The king is fading fast.
This at least provided welcome income for a gaggle of fading celebrities to promote, replete with numerous amusing errors, their own favourite historical characters along with their own careers.
By the fading light of their smouldering fires they resolved to do as she had said. The Gods of Asgard
Fading occurs when any chemical process breaks the sequence of conjugated double bonds constituting the chromophore - the dye moiety that imparts colour.
He lifted his hands to the skies and sounded a long weird call that seemed to shudder endlessly out into space, dwindling and fading, yet never dying out, only receding farther and farther into some unreckoned cosmos. Wings in the Night
Unwilling to say too much in case the boy, fading from sobs to snuffling, was listening, Al rolled his eyes.
The flowers buzz with insect activity before fading gracefully at the end of the season. Times, Sunday Times
But when he held it to the fading light of the window which opened upon the street where the woman called the prophetess had cursed him, the eyes of the child did not close, neither did their pupils diminish. The Scapegoat; a romance and a parable
The lights began fading slowly until all that lit the darkness were bright red rings within bloodshot eyeballs.
PLAYING 3D video games could help stop the memory fading with age, a study has found. The Sun
I tried to amuse him with my astounding mindlessness and my sad, fading It-girl proclivities, but he didn't seem as charmed as I would have liked. With No One as Witness
Through a chromatic mist of string ostinatos, a plainsong chorale gradually emerges in the brass climaxing in resplendent fanfares, before fading away into a haze of sound as the procession recedes.
Huge parking lots, which were fully packed throughout the day with scores of sleek bikes, elegant two-wheelers and rakish cars, stand forlorn and neglected with nothing but tyre tracks and fading oil leaks on the ground.
She compensated for her fading beauty, I saw, with aggressive salesmanship. DOUBTING THOMAS
This group subjects laminate flooring materials to a comprehensive series of tests for resistance to impact, stains, heat, fading and more.
All the few in whom yet lingered any shadow of retainership towards the fast-fading chieftainship of Glenwarlock, seemed to cherish the notion that the heir of the house had to be tended and cared for like a child -- that was what they were in the world for. Warlock o' Glenwarlock
The fairness of his complexion is revealed by his habitation among the flowers; for he dwells not amid bloomless or fading beauties, whether of body or soul or aught else, but in the place of flowers and scents, there he sits and abides. Thispain Diary Entry
The free network connection is a little flaky, with the signal fading in and out.
He bled into the darkness between every light plastered on the ceiling, only displaying his head and shoulders in the caliginous luminosity, fading back to darkness as he walked forward.
He wore a little jerkin with the words ‘Foto Espresso’ on the back and little phrases like ‘We send your photo email’ fading on the front.
The streetlights and buildings pass me by in a solemn procession winking with fading lights.
A glittering biocomputer smaller than your fist, studded with tiny vernier thrusters, suspended on a web of particle collectors stretching ten meters across, drifting through the void around a fading star. 365 tomorrows » 2008 » May : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
That shout had a different tone to it; towards the end of his name, her voice seemed to dwindle, fading.
How delicately pink it is, and yet how unfadingly it stands the summer's sun, the hot air, the drought! The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills
I don't think of myself as a declinist, but the salience of the alliance we are leading is fading fast.
We slipped through St Bartholomew's churchyard, snowdrops fading, the fruit and nut trees blossoming, and channelled down a track towards the River Ure.
With anti-inflammatory drugs helping to treat the fetlock injury, Attraction performed admirably in her comeback race, the Hungerford on August 13 at Newbury, leading the way until fading to fourth late.
She had dark brown eyes that looked almost completely black in the fading light with olive-coloured skin.
Atop a steep hungry hill, from where my house in greyness sits, under a fading morning mist, I waited for a bus, watching drivers shine in the mounting oven-hot sun; their cars disappearing over the wavering ridge of road. Carolina Grüber: II
But he saw it as his duty to stop the memory of what had happened to his country fading away. Times, Sunday Times
This observation revealed a familiar light signature, clinching the case for a fading high-mass X-ray binary with a neutron star.
Slowly, in the fading light, I take the bowl into my lap, and carefully begin to spoon-feed myself the broth.
The sound reached a crescendo, then trailed off to the south in a quickly fading Doppler echo.
When looking at the body of psychoanalytic literature dealing with perversions it becomes evident that today there is clearly fading support of the theory of phallic primacy.
I suspect that the requirement for more education and the fading-out of creativity in midlife may stem from the same cause.
Outside, the light was fading rapidly.
In this paper, a Modified Neural Network ( MNN ) based power controller is proposed to smoothen out the fast fading and keep the received signal power from each user constant at the base station.
Its light began to fade away, and kept fading until they were just looking at a pail full of pure, unpolluted water.
Quentin felt the magic of his sword subside, a red haze fading into twinges of emptiness and unfulfilled need, a mix of emotions that tore at him like brambles. Antrax
The default setting of the England rugby fan is knowing condemnation fading to erudite contempt. Times, Sunday Times
If all of our other immune protections are fading, maybe grandparents should take infants for their shots and physicians should offer ‘twofers.’
Through the total fading away and extinction of craving, decay and death, sorrow, lamentation, suffering, grief, and despair are extinguished.
Her bloom was fading
Living proof that RNC prominence is fading and the ovine followers are dwindling in number since savvy people are beginning to see the light instead of being allowed to be smitten by blind fanaticism. Poll: New Jersey gubernatorial race tightens up
He was short with silver grey hair that was fading to white along with his hairline.
Through the total fading away and extinction of craving, decay and death, sorrow, lamentation, suffering, grief, and despair are extinguished.
In vignettes centering on a fiery local waitress, a seventh-generation fisherman, the doyenne of a fading lesbian power culture, an unrepentant jinx, and other characters for whom the term colorful does scant justice, he introduces a community bound by tradition, superstition, recalcitrance, and a profound, more visceral than affectionate love for the sea. Undefined
Mr. Lee is now dallying with younger women, and the middle-aged Ching is desperate to reverse her fading looks and retain her husband's interest in her.
In the past the bride's parents helped to cover the costs of the wedding but the new figures show this is a fading tradition.
The honours arrived like a power chord at the end of a fading guitar solo and took them both by surprise. Times, Sunday Times
The spin doctors are trying to revive the party's fading image.
The stimulus fading strategy was effective on functional vocabulary generalization for students with moderate mental retardation.
Replace fading cool-season annuals with heat lovers like celosias, dahlias, marigolds, petunias, salvias, and verbenas.
She had dark brown eyes that looked almost completely black in the fading light with olive-coloured skin.
For what else could be meant by that sweet perfume but the odor of his holy and innocent conversation, or the incense of their sacrifices and prayers, or the primitial fruits of his happy soul, which was now flown up to the holy mountain of eternal glory, there enjoying the odoriferous and never-fading delights of Paradise? Purgatory
The cornucopia had stubbornly remained through her six years of checkups, gathering dust, the reds and oranges fading on the waxy peels. MINUTES TO BURN
Outside, the light was fading rapidly.
An insistent call pulled me toward a brushy area, and in the fading light, I just barely saw a bird fly up into a small tree.
Details have yet to be announced, but I suspect the contract is backloaded a bit too, meaning they'll be paying more and getting less down the road, another fading veteran the team will have to accommodate.
Many of the Army's professional journals have ceased publication and more are fading away.
Inside the courthouse, "landmen" - specialists in the often arcane art of tracking down mineral rights - sift through fading paper records to see who has the claim to what lies beneath the surrounding prairies.
The blue was fading to a dull chlorine green, the fuchsia sprouting roots of over an inch.
As one of the mufti - carrier transmission technologies , OFDM can multipath fading effect with high frequency efficiency.
The distant fading signals a run-down age of degenerate belief.
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Whatever the spell had once been, now it was no more than hundreds of disconnected marks, fading into the dust. LIRAEL: DAUGHTER OF THE CLAYR
I am being more free with the bonemeal for all the tulips as they are fading this year in hopes of better returns, but new ones will still be added in the fall. April Dreams Gardens-GBBD 2009 « Fairegarden
Although summer's over and the last splutters of colour are fading from most gardens, there is a way to keep your patch looking pretty in the dark days ahead.
The honours arrived like a power chord at the end of a fading guitar solo and took them both by surprise. Times, Sunday Times
In London we feel this kind of thing is fading away and this project is a great way of bringing it back. Times, Sunday Times
Weak arcs of scorching lightning zapped outwards, rapidly fading over the short distance.
A recent job of calcimining had transformed the room from a dirty grayish, white to a soft shade of pink; the old-fashioned furniture had been "done over," and glowed dully in the fading light. The Pride of Palomar
Stormblade™s sapphired hilt caught the fading light. Stormblade
Asteroid brightnesses change every few hours as they spin, first brightening when they are broadside to us and fading when end-on.
Oaks swayed overhead, and a bird twittered sharply from far off, its call echoing through the fading blackness.
Over independent Rayleigh fading channels, this scheme can achieve the maximum diversity gain receive antennas.
Colors tend to be exquisite, but in an unusual way, at once vivid and fading, as if a still-potent splendor were half-vanishing before one's eyes, introducing a vaguely mournful, even elegiac tone.
Hopes of a peaceful resolution to the conflict were fading.
Our flotsam was a trick of the fading light on the sea, just where Broken Rocks raised the swell a little; but in the exquisite, the almost menacing, calm of the evening, we leaned on our oars and watched for a while. A Poor Man's House
Outside, a venerable magazine about recreational sports, called whitewater kayaking "a fading sport" that only gets attention every time a hotshot kayaker plunges over a massive waterfall. Tennessean.com Top News
Species of sections Musa and Rhodochlamys share common characteristics, possessing the same chromosome number and having bracts that are generally sulcate, glaucous and that become revolute on fading.
I wonder how much of this is just the sadness at the slow fading away of the friendship.
Fading is true while flowering is past.
As the snowdrops and daffodils surrender their last fading colour the forsythia and tulips blossom with a blaze of Easter glory and reflect the hope and joy of another season.
She stared at the ring lying on the table, then looked at her palm, where a circular white line now lay across the fading red line that was all that was left of the earlier frostnip. Hunting Fear
Critics say a museum is just the place for wrinkly rockers who show no signs of fading away. Times, Sunday Times
The light was fading, the grandfather was lit-up and so it happened that the bay window across the back wall got in the way of a slug.
It's coloured in Stella's preferred palate: gun-metal greys fading into muted violets and lilacs; lurid cerises and delicate eau de nil.
Take this road for the remission of your sins, assured of the unfading glory of the kingdom of heaven. ' 'Holy Warriors: A Modern History of the Crusades'
The lesson of that scene, illuminated in tints unstainable, unfading, will live as long as memory. Last Leaves from Dunk Island
Mr. Casey complains about many in his generation not being able to find jobs, that "the prospects for intergenerational mobility are fading fast," that they will be burdened with Social Security and Medicare payments for baby boomers, and that baby boomers will "deplete" the wealth of Gen Y. If You Want Intergenerational War, Let It Begin Here
In contrast Harriet's family represents the fading genteel elegance of the old South.
The commonplace book fixes time and arrests fading memory. Times, Sunday Times
Top Indian actor-turned-politician Shatrughan Sinha, in an interview to The News, recalled unfading memories of his eight-year association with the former Pakistani President, General Ziaul Haq. Bloggers.Pakistan
Colour tends to be dark grey on the dorsal surface, fading to off-white on the belly.
By “withering,” I assume you mean shrivelling, fading or decaying. Britney and Paris Mum on McCain Ad - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
An undefined emotion passed across Wind's glassy eyes before fading back into the depths of his light brown pools.
Colors showed small signs of fading, though were generally bright and full.
He could see, fading away into the blue distance, lines of open structures which he could only describe as roofless-and largely wall-less - buildings. Tin
She knew how to do things and make things and even her good looks were competent, a straightforward sort of ableness, open and clear-eyed, with a smatter of fading freckles and a dirty-minded smile. Underworld
He had antedated Sullivan, in the old London Prize Ring Rules, though his last fading battles had been put up under the incoming Marquis of Queensbury Rules. Chapter I
If this happens, Bulgaria will become a country in which expectations are based on what has been achieved rather than on unfading faith in miracles.
Simulation result shows that the system a good performance in multi - path fading and Doppler shift channel.
Hopes of a peaceful resolution to the conflict were fading.
Hopes of a peace settlement were fading fast.
She visibly shrank in the face of a barrage of baritone braying, her voice faltering and fading as she gamely struggled on. Times, Sunday Times
And in the midst of it, far away though they were, they saw the palace of the Queen of the South; and it was so full of windows all looking toward the sea, and they were so full of light, both from the sunset that was fading upon the water and from candles that maids were lighting one by one, that it looked far off like a pearl, shimmering still in its haliotis shell, still wet from the sea. The Book of Wonder
Among the relatively new slang words: stella, "good-looking female," from stellar, "starlike, " improbably influenced by the shouted name of Stanley Kowalski's wife in Tennessee Williams's "Streetcar Named Desire." A synonym is shorty or shawty, imported from vintage hip-hop for "girlfriend of any height." Such attractiveness is the opposite of the fast-fading butterface ("Great body, but her face .... "), and a less-than-good-looking male or female is a blockamore, who "only looks good from a block or more. Old NY Times Writers Trying To Understand How “The Kids” Talk Is, Like, Totes Adorkable | Best Week Ever
For the rest of the month Mercury sinks back down to the horizon while fading rapidly, and is out of sight well before the end of April.
That sense of fading glory is one of the themes that knits the stories together. Times, Sunday Times
---- A disturbing trend: even the light-fast pens are fading on my office cubicle wall! Journalisimo | Back to Analog
As an alternative to using the mod wheel to move dynamics, you can use actual crescendo and diminuendo performances, mod wheel crossfading between the two when necessary.
Each dram took the bite out of the cold air and as light faded from the highlands around us, the browns and greens fading to deeper grays, we told stories of the departed that turned the air blue.
Good deal for all concerned or fading star 's last big payday? Times, Sunday Times
Transmit and receive eigen-beamforming was employed in the presence of deteriorative fading correlation.
But if I had pride in my learning, I had more in my desire not to remain where there was nought for me but the fading memory of my father's name.
This custom is slowly fading out.
Depletion of phosphocreatine without replenishment can result in muscular fatigue and fading muscle power. Wil's Ebay E-Store
I don't see the sky, wide and open, or the hills, range on range, fading into the far distance.
His paintings of this time had a magical and apocalyptic character, with hazy shapes and swirling draperies fading into the landscape.
It produces large trumpet, ivory white flowers which open a lovely pale primrose yellow, fading gradually to pure white.
No one will care if the administration cuts logical corners over so-called rogue states or fading dictators.
Though this drill is normally used to help cure the slice swing of a beginner, it can help a good player make the switch from fading the ball to hitting a draw.
Replace fading cool-season annuals with heat lovers like celosias, dahlias, marigolds, petunias, salvias, and verbenas.
In the exhibition's cross-fading slide projection, eerily only the surrounding landscape appeared to change as he approached his final destination.
In the fading light we saw bats flitting around/about in the garden.

How To Use Fading In A Sentence

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