slackening

How To Use slackening In A Sentence

• The river flow was slackening off now, but the bites continued.
• The company has slashed prices to fend off competitors and pump up slackening demand.
• The patient, when bandaged, should return the same answers as formerly stated, for the bandaging should be the same, and the same swellings should arise in the extremities, and the slackening of the bandages in like manner, and the new bandaging on the third day; and the bandaged part should be found reduced in swelling; and the new bandagings should be more tightly put on, and more pieces of cloth should be used; and the bandages should be carried loosely about the foot, unless the wound be near the knee. On Fractures
• the slackening of the wind
• If necessary, adjust by slackening the center screw and rotating the outer 5/8-inch hexagon nut.
• The heavy rain showed no signs of slackening off.
• Hence slackening is not a concession in principle but is called for by the circumstances.
• There was a slackening of western output during the 1930s.
• Even in training you have to be on your toes, you can't be slackening off with the squad we have.
• LONDON—The Bank of England kept its key interest rate at a record low for the 30th straight month Thursday against a backdrop of slackening growth in the U.K. and gloomier prospects for the global economy. Bank of England Keeps Rates Steady