Sentence examples for receded only from inspiring English sources

After the water had receded, only a handful of buildings remained standing in the town centre.

Mr Keerthisinghe tells of one Sri Lankan farmer who drained a contaminated well five times after the tsunami had receded, only to find seawater seeping back.

Prisoner uprisings on Rikers Island, a sprawling and formidable complex in the East River, have erupted periodically over the years, then receded, only to surge again.

He became a connoisseur of 18th-century French furniture, which equipped him well to lead a revival of interiors redolent of pre-Revolutionary France among the superrich, a fashion that receded only in recent decades.

But those problems have receded, only to be replaced by old-fashioned ballot rigging.

The vanity is receding only up to a point.

Their mouth-drying tannins recede only when the flesh ripens fully into a translucent, almost liquid mass.

Farther north the tide is now receding, only to reveal the many homeless and hungry, their stores of wheat and their crops and livestock destroyed.

In Cambodia, the most severe floods for a decade have left 250,000 people homeless, with water levels receding only very slightly since heavy rains ended.

ALLAHABAD, India (January 2013) – Every twelve years, on the flood plains of northern India where the Ganges and Yamuna rivers intersect, the rainy season recedes only to be replaced with a surge of humanity that blankets the plains anew.

It ensured that the sex abuse crisis would recede only very gradually, that the closure that many ordinary Catholics want to feel would remain elusive, and that the crimes of the past would keep intruding, with every public appearance by a compromised cardinal, into an otherwise much-improved present.