Sentence examples for I receded from inspiring English sources

I receded into my building's courtyard to observe from the shadows, like an arsonist, returning to witness the blaze he'd set.

Then again, devices that essentially mimic the keyboard were only just starting to emerge when I receded from the scene.

[C11.] Optimism Is Receding in Europe Confronted by signs of slower growth and rising prices, European leaders are once again brooding about long-term "speed limits" on their economies.

Re "Workers Find Retirement Is Receding Toward 70" (Economic View, Feb. 3), in which Louis Uchitelle described how Americans must stay on the job until their late 60's or early 70's in order to live well in retirement: Just where are all these workers going to work until age 70 when many are now being laid off at 50 and are unable to find new jobs because they are "too old"?

But I know what those overtakers are thinking about me, if they're thinking about me at all, as I recede in their rear-view mirrors.

I was convinced that I had receded into worldly irrelevance for him; I had no access to the Buddhistish realms in which he operated with cold metaphysical disinterest.

When it recedes, I am still there, in the center of what remains a lonely and devastated place.

I understand what was happening, and I understand the teacher wanted to keep order in the classroom, but I remember receding a lot after that, and I became very quiet and very shy.

TO MY RIGHT MAN You have a receding hairline, and I have receding gums.

As my childhood shyness receded, I grew more emotionally fluid (I cried plenty in my 20s), but it wasn't until my 30s, the past five years or so, that I finally learned what that exquisite hair-trigger feels like – when a piece of art or media reaches into your chest and squeezes until your insides pour out of your face and there's nothing you can do about it.

You can signal the unconscious to take over and if successful, you, the big 'I' can recede into the background, and all the real and imagined slights and grievances become not so important.