recede

How To Use recede In A Sentence

• There is already a great deal of precedent since polygamy has been widely practiced throughout history.
• The financial managers and economic wizards are happy that Pakistan has achieved a level of macro-economic stabilization, which is spectacular and unprecedented.
• Carson's voice on the phone was preceded by that of a lawyer who asked if I would mind listening to Johnny while he spoke his piece, which sounds like even daffier a concept now than it did then. Nights with Johnny Carson: As long as it's been, we still long for them
• The goal to attack the spiralling cost of public services may be laudable, but the precedent is dangerous.
• There are various classes of Secular Abbots; some have both jurisdiction and the right to use the pontifical insignia; others have only the abbatical dignity without either jurisdiction or the right to pontificalia; while yet another class holds in certain cathedral churches the first dignity and the privilege of precedence in choir and in assemblies, by reason of some suppressed or destroyed conventual church now become the cathedral. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
• There is a plethora of admirable precedents to this form of conservatism.
• He has received several teaching awards, as well as the unprecedented award of being ‘the most quotable professor’ by MathSoc.
• The volume of trade has receded.
• Though the threat of some biohazards receded for workers in health-care and other human services, the threat of others, such as hepatitis B virus, grew.
• Furthermore, functional and structural divergence might, in some cases, precede rather than follow gene duplication.