Sentence examples for gradual sliding from inspiring English sources

The four stages of the land-sliding mechanism (compaction, gradual sliding, slightly faster sliding, and rapid sliding) could be determined from the tests.

However, on other faults, which we describe as weakly coupled, there may be gradual sliding of the two sides of the fault past each other (aseismic slip or creep), which takes up some of the slip that would otherwise occur suddenly in earthquakes.

After a very gradual slide, the total in 2013 was still 43 pounds per person.

The world economy could well benefit from a gradual slide in the greenback.

Although the film was widely praised, its reception in 1938 was muted by Europe's gradual slide toward war.

As temperatures begin their gradual slide, the great switch from balms and glosses to proper lipsticks begins.

There can be a plunge in fortunes, or a gradual slide, until the accumulating setbacks become too much to overcome without help from outside the family.

With the global outlook clouded by conflicting indicators, what OPEC's members apparently have fixed on is the gradual slide in demand for oil.

This past week, some players have privately expressed concern about the team's gradual slide back to the days of dumping the ball into Ewing's hands.

Halliwell began the gradual slide into depression and violent self-pity that culminated when he murdered Orton in his sleep, before taking his own life.

But he then began a gradual slide, plummeting by 2008 to a year in which he only won four races and nearly quit training.