Sentence examples for slacken at from inspiring English sources

Even Shakespeare's sonnets sometimes slacken at the end, but this one rises to a climax, full of meaning and power.

About this kind of traffic, not much good can be said; the despair of sitting in it does not slacken at the sight, across the median, of the congestion that awaits you going in the other direction, even if that congestion is, strictly speaking, what you're after.

However, the Union barrage began to slacken at about 2 30 pm at least until Brigadier General Lewis Armistead, at about 3 30 pm, noticed Union skirmishers creeping towards his men where the grand battery on the Confederate right flank was, nearly within rifle range of them.

The drop in natural gas prices came in response to an Energy Department report of the largest increase in inventories since early July, suggesting that demand for power generation had slackened at a time when domestic production was surging.

Since the iodine generation on TiO2 anatase, TiO2 Hombikat and TiO2 P25 are not slackened at least up to 15 min and on the other oxides at least up to 30 min, the reaction rates have been obtained by measuring the iodine formed in 15 and 30 min on anatase, Hombikat and P25 TiO2 and the rest of the oxides, respectively.

What's more, the pace hasn't slackened at all.

Although he had insufficient information to accomplish this, Alexander eventually notified Pickett that he was running dangerously short of ammunition, sending the message "If you are coming at all, come at once, or I cannot give you proper support, but the enemy's fire has not slackened at all.

Divers were waiting for the current over the Goodwin Sands, off the Kent coast, to slacken sufficiently at the turn of the tide to send one man down to attach six cables to the aircraft.

Barton, 25, is now hoping the magistrates slacken the conditions at his next remand appearance, on 12 March, or that the case will be heard within 12 weeks and that he gets a favourable outcome, otherwise he would miss the potentially crucial final game, at Everton on 11 May.

The 40-minute piece occasionally slackens, but at its strongest it peers at the world closely and strangely.

Security has noticeably slackened off at Weymouth.