How To Use subsiding In A Sentence
- So, that whole platform of south Louisiana is subsiding; it's sinking.
- The projecting edge of some fossil-charged bed had been struck, mayhap, by an iceberg, and dashed into ruins, just as the subsiding land had brought the spot within reach of the attritive ice; and the broken heap thus detached had been shortly afterwards covered up, without mixture of any other deposit, by the red boulder-clay. The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland
- It indicated that normal faulting processes induced from the shear of dextral strike-slip faults are active in the historically subsiding Tainan basin.
- In the early part of the last century, most diseases peaked and were subsiding before medicine discovered the cure.
- She rowed the boat down the waterway, her anger slowly subsiding.
- Residents in Churchill Close, Calne, are eagerly awaiting the result of an Ombudsman's report on subsiding land beneath their gardens.
- He wrapped her in his embrace as the panic he felt earlier finally subsiding.
- The flooded river was subsiding rapidly.
- In both the northern and southern hemispheres aridity occurs at latitudes characterized by more or less permanent high pressure cells and hot dry subsiding air.
- This marble figure seems to flame and spiral up, surging, groaning like an earthquake, subsiding even as he rises.
