Sentence examples for lessened to from inspiring English sources

The terror lessened to a milder sense of dread.

On Mount Hamilton, when the grade lessened to a mere 4percentt, it felt almost like riding on flat ground.

Even with the Pakistani decision, however, tensions appeared to have lessened to the point where India's prime minister, Atal Behari Vajpayee, felt comfortable enough to leave on a vacation he had postponed earlier in week to the Indian hill country.

If Strawberry abides by the conditions of his house arrest for a year, law enforcement officials said there is a chance the second year could be lessened to probation.

Pilgrim felt his feet transparent on the deck, a sailor treading uplands sixty fathoms back; saw nettled deer tracks pooling, inch by sodden inch, into a whaler's channel; inlands islanded and highlands turned to shipping hazards, fellsides lessened to a knuckled string; the sly brine loosing peat from longbones, locking snails into the bedrock.

The University of Wisconsin, Michigan State University, Washington University in St . Louisand the University of Connecticut have stopped sending students there, with UConn citing a State Department travel advisory (which has been lessened to a travel alert) urging Americans to avoid all demonstrations in Egypt.

The system later struck Hainan Island with winds of 85 km/h (50 mph) before lessening to a tropical depression.

Rehydration and supportive care may lessen to severity of the disease.

RUT had a negative predictive value of 92% when standard thresholds were used, lessening to 84% with reduced thresholds.

In a histopathological analysis, pneumonia was moderately lessened due to perinatal exposure to methamidophos.

The storm continued to move over colder waters, but wind shear was forecast to lessen, leading to slow, steady weakening.