How To Use Subsiding In A Sentence
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So, that whole platform of south Louisiana is subsiding; it's sinking.
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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
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It indicated that normal faulting processes induced from the shear of dextral strike-slip faults are active in the historically subsiding Tainan basin.
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In the early part of the last century, most diseases peaked and were subsiding before medicine discovered the cure.
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She rowed the boat down the waterway, her anger slowly subsiding.
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Residents in Churchill Close, Calne, are eagerly awaiting the result of an Ombudsman's report on subsiding land beneath their gardens.
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He wrapped her in his embrace as the panic he felt earlier finally subsiding.
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The flooded river was subsiding rapidly.
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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.
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This marble figure seems to flame and spiral up, surging, groaning like an earthquake, subsiding even as he rises.
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This case is interesting from the novel mode of death, the perfect paralysis of the arm, paralysis agitans of the body (occurring as hemorrhage from the ear came on, and subsiding with it), and extensive caries of the petrous bone, without sensation of pain or any indicative symptoms.
Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
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This marble figure seems to flame and spiral up, surging, groaning like an earthquake, subsiding even as he rises.
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Mary K.V. Hodges, Paul Karl Link, C. Mark Fanning, 2009, The Pliocene Lost River found to west: Detrital zircon evidence of drainage disruption along a subsiding hotspot track
Scientific Articles on Yellowstone
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On the other flank of the depressions cold air is moving from high levels at high latitudes and slowly subsiding as it is carried towards the subtropics.
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By midday, householders' concerns for their homes were subsiding as the rain stopped.
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The flooded river was subsiding rapidly.
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Round them, as they gradually went down with the subsiding soil, calamites grew, at one level after another.
History of the Conflict between Religion and Science
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Here's a peasant woman subsiding into exhaustion after a punishing day's drive: ‘She sits on the fountain ledge as if she has been deposited there.’
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Thus in my journey during those long hours I found it — agonies subsiding into lethargies, and these breaking again into frenzy.
Uncle Silas
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This facies change could be a result of the subsiding volcanic centre in the Jacobsen and Miki Fjord area being infilled by volcanic material shed from the Ryberg, Jensen and Nansen Fjord area.
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It has therefore been slowly subsiding and its streams, although continually carried below grade, have yet been able to aggrade the surface as rapidly as the region sank, and have maintained it, as at present, slightly above sea level.
The Elements of Geology
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The all-consuming fervor of the election is subsiding, leaving the president the thankless task of wrestling with the same uncooperative economy that dogged him throughout his first term.
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After the subsiding of the first surprise and indignation the agitation of his own thoughts too much occupied John's mind to admit of his being much diverted by the sorrows of his black boy; and Tom was too much affected by the dejectedness of his friend to entertain any lasting concern for the sable sufferer.
Fern Vale (Volume 1) or the Queensland Squatter
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He makes them dance for his pleasure, and you hear their breath come and go, in the swell and subsiding of those marvellous crescendos and diminuendos which set the strings pulsating like a sea.
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My mind was empty and was cooling off as the tropical summer heat was subsiding in the shower of the moonlight.
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Many crayfish flee the sun downward, tunneling after the subsiding water table until they reach moist mud in which to estivate.
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It was with the lie that they had eaten and drunk and talked and laughed, that they had waited for their carriole rather impatiently, and had then got into the vehicle and, sensibly subsiding, driven their three or four miles through the darkening summer night.
The Ambassadors
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This marble figure seems to flame and spiral up, surging, groaning like an earthquake, subsiding even as he rises.
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She rowed the boat down the waterway, her anger slowly subsiding.
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Two Marlborough town councillors fear cracks in the front wall of the town hall could threaten the building, even though an architect has said there was no evidence the building is subsiding.
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Keep the beer covered in a temperate situation, till it has ceased fermenting, which is ascertained by the subsiding of the froth -- turn it off carefully into a beer keg, or bottles.
The American Housewife Containing the Most Valuable and Original Receipts in all the Various Branches of Cookery; and Written in a Minute and Methodical Manner
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The shamal comes in quickly and silently, like an ocher paint roller, and can blow for several days straight, subsiding slightly at night when the air is cooler.
Peace Meals
