Sentence examples for be slackened from inspiring English sources

Like a Coach and six — the swiftest Horses, must be slackened and the slowest quickened, that all may keep an even Pace".

The tension between one's individual and one's social nature must not be slackened, or else the one is likely to overwhelm the other.

If the needle tends toward the right side of the dial, your string is sharp and should be slackened.

But the tide is almost high; the current seems to be slackening.

With so much yet to be done it is worrying that the pace of reform already seems to be slackening.

He wonders if his powers of recollection or his ability to avoid repeating himself might be slackening.

Even shopping appears to be slackening; one chain of stores told the bank that sales were down 5percentt because air-conditioner purchases had plunged by 50percentt.

About 1,000 American troops backed by attack helicopters mounted a dawn assault on a string of mountain villages and caves in southeastern Afghanistan today, sending a forceful message to militants here that coalition forces would not be slackening their pace as the war in Iraq gets under way.

In the Oldenburg/van Bruggen version, the rigid lines and exacting perspective of the Vermeers are slackened and skewed.

In the traditional Hawaiian slack-key style, the strings of a standard guitar are tuned down — that is, slackened.

This observation is particularly important when assuming that ligament healing will work best if its disrupted borders are slackened [20, 37, 43].