The love letters regressed into caricatures.
The game regressed into a non-event after that second goal.
And then I went off to college, where my obsession regressed into ordinary, almost casual fandom.
This has developed, or regressed, into a race where going backwards the slowest has its clear merits.
The Pacific Coast League, once a hub of ambition, regressed into a true minor league soon thereafter.
Quite enough has already been said about how Rangers regressed into the most damaging tangle in their history.
Still, scoring opportunities were at a premium in what had regressed into a combative cup tie on Tayside.
Still, the events have only confirmed fears that the police have gradually regressed into a tool of oppression.
Scotland has regressed into an inward-looking, slightly chip-on-shoulder, slightly Anglophobic country with no clear sense of direction.
— After George Mason's unimaginable Final Four run in 2006, Patriots forward Will Thomas found that visits to the dining hall inevitably regressed into eat-and-greets.
Under him, it is claimed, the US regressed into a period of isolationism, nativism, and recession, ending with the Wall Street crash.
