Sentence examples for had been faded from inspiring English sources

Mr. Gaultier did some ingenious things, like mixing old fabrics with current materials like python and choosing pale shades of lavender and green that looked as if they had been faded in the sun.

His popularity, which had been fading, rebounded, said Dr. Khalil Shikaki, a Palestinian pollster.

Fontaine had been fading in recent days and died peacefully, Beutel said.

Bank analysts said that hopes for a deal had been fading for some time and that banks had little reason to participate without California.

Mr. Kaczynski's star had been fading in recent years, and he would have faced a difficult re-election battle this year.

Max's appealing goofiness had been fading as the weeks wore on, replaced by a hard edge his friends hadn't seen before.

"I felt I had to make eagle or birdie to have any chance of catching Greg," said Langer, who had been fading the ball off the tee all week.

His father, Jerry Girardi, had been fading behind the enveloping shroud of Alzheimer's disease for more than a decade, and now, with a phone call, a son knew his father was forever gone.

Nonetheless, the president's promise of an extended offensive against terrorism has already given renewed purpose -- and consequence -- to the Reserve Officer Training Corps, an 85-year-old program that had been fading steadily since the end of the cold war.

And into April, it had been fading away pretty much by the book.

He added that Apple's profit margin on handsets had been fading because of "lacklustre" sales for the iPhone 5 and tougher competition from rivals.