Sentence examples similar to it was easing off from inspiring English sources

I'd got a good gap by then and I was easing off to avoid any problems.

(It only struck me when I was about 16 that, obviously, he was easing off the gas and that I, a child, could not outrun a car).

She was YIVO's head librarian for 25 years, until 1987; then in her late 70's, she was eased off to work as research librarian, a position she held until her death.

Just hours after he was killed in a United States-led operation, Osama bin Laden's lifeless body -- bathed, wrapped in a sheet and placed in a weighted bag -- was "eased" off the decks of the U.S.S.

When at a stop, only give the car enough gas to maintain its idle RPM when you are easing off the clutch.

I think all this is easing off though.

For the past 10 months, authorities have been easing off on the cruder sorts of crackdowns.

"As our comfort zone increases, we will be easing off on the restriction of movement," Mr. Hayat said.

And even as he shifts up he's easing off, looking out for the right turn before Gower Street, which is also closed off.

Glasgow may have pulled out all the stops for Christmas and Hogmanay but that doesn't mean the city is easing off for the start of 2010.

"Nobody will be easing off because they think the job is done - not while I'm at this club," he says.