Sentence examples for have started to recede from inspiring English sources

After three days of heavy rainfall, floodwater have started to recede in parts of the city.

And the flood waters of the Limpopo and other rivers have started to recede, officials said today.

And while water levels have started to recede slightly in some places, officials warned on Saturday that the river would remain above flood stage for several weeks.

River levels have peaked in many areas and have started to recede, but parts of Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin and South Dakota still face "historic to catastrophic flooding," the National Weather Service said on Monday.

"The opium floodwaters in Afghanistan have started to recede," Antonio Maria Costa, the executive director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, wrote in the foreword to the 2008 edition of the annual opium survey, published Tuesday.

And as the waters have started to recede, the number of those wanting to be evacuated by boat has begun to dwindle, with many preferring to stay put or relocate to the expanding dry areas closer to their homes.

The Red River had started to recede in southwest Arkansas, but 100 National Guardsmen, hauling sandbags with two helicopters, tried to protect a levee near Garland.

Shinawatra said floodwaters had started to recede but high tides in the Gulf of Thailand would continue to test Bangkok's flood defences.

Some provinces north of Bangkok have been inundated for more than a month, although floodwater there has started to recede in recent days as massive pools of runoff flow south.

Ms. Yazbek, who has the fair complexion of many coastal Syrians, was born into a prominent family whose fortunes had started to recede after her grandfather voluntarily distributed his considerable land to the peasants who worked on it.

Gough's hair had started to recede before Bewilderbeast, and feeling self-conscious about it, one day on tour in Japan, he grabbed his girlfriend's tea-cosy hat to wear on the stage.