Sentence examples for it was receding from inspiring English sources

Already it was receding, swifter and swifter, in the last stage of its headlong journey downward into the sun.

Sandby, however, was concerned not just to represent Welsh "difference", but also the degree to which it was receding.

By the time Mr. Blazonczyk began his career, it was receding from the mainstream, but the music, and the social rituals surrounding it, held a place in some Americans' ethnic identity.

Not only did he refocus attention on his wife's most hazardous issue, Iraq, just as it was receding as the nation's Topic A, but he also revived unhappy memories of the truth-dodging nadirs of the Clinton White House.

"But certainly it is receding, because we are addressing it through the communication campaign.

The farther away a galaxy is, the faster it is receding and the bigger this red shift will be.

The emission line of an atom is shifted to longer wavelengths if it is receding from the observer and to shorter wavelengths if it is approaching.

The faster a galaxy flies away from us, the dimmer and dimmer it will appear, as its light is "redshifted" to lower frequencies and energies, the way a police siren sounds lower when it is receding.

"The fact that self-referential irony is only now reaching the musical theater just as it's receding in other media into some post-ironic something, strikes me as, well, amusing," he said.

By measuring the red-shift of the burst's light (something that depends on how fast it is receding from Earth, and thus because the universe is expanding at a uniform rate how far away it is), it is possible to work out how bright it really was.

He says: "The red line is still there but it is receding".