Sentence examples for closes slowly from inspiring English sources

When you pull a wooden spoon through the batter and the line it makes closes slowly, the batter is the right consistency.

The gap with the big league is closing — slowly.

He could only manage to bring it to a close slowly, unwittingly demonstrating his impotence".

Instead, they close slowly, like the petals of a night-flowering plant shutting gently in the morning.

"Get closer slowly," says one Iranian sailor, instructing his pilot in Persian as the boat approaches the American vessel.

Piazza was down, on his back, his eyes closing slowly as if were on the verge of losing consciousness.

The lids have dampers on the springs so they close slowly and softly, like an expensive car door.

Dictator is an 80-year-old company that producers "door dampers" – the mechanism which allows a door or gate to close slowly and quietly.

The other is closing slowly, two men pushing and shoving as though it weighed eight tons, which, I later find out, it does.

In one study Dr. Grace undertook, truck drivers whose eyelids were closing slowly were warned either by a computer beep or a woman's voice.

Women's wages increased faster than men's over this period (a 78% increase compared with 59% respectively), meaning that the gap has been closing slowly in percentage terms but is still no where near equal.