Sentence examples for slowly break down from inspiring English sources

Slightly acidic rain falls on silicate rocks and they slowly break down to a carbonate solution.

Alfie's casual cynicism and underlying decency slowly break down Tanya's defenses, and the audience's, too.

These acetates slowly break down in air, giving rise to thiols and contributing to the persistence of the odour.

Dry A.M.D. occurs when the cells in the macula slowly break down, gradually blurring central vision in the affected eye.

Inside skin cells, the mechanisms that clear out waste products slowly break down and the muck coalesces into a clot of gooey yellow-brown pigment known as lipofuscin.

Around 8m tons of plastic ends up in the oceans every year, where it washes up on beaches or drifts out to sea where the pieces very slowly break down over hundreds of years.

Uranium 233 very slowly breaks down into thorium 229, half of it making the conversion over 159,000 years.

Nikola Tesla's revenge Following the footprints The armour strikes back Parallel bars Alpha geek ReprintsBut the distinction between the two is slowly breaking down.

Those who vote for this tax bill — possibly the worst piece of major legislation in a generation — will live in infamy, as the country slowly breaks down.

The jury and judge left, and the rest of us slowly broke down as the victim's family celebrated on the other side of the courtroom.

Because antibodies already present in the blood are slowly broken down, failure to make new ones is important only if the infection persists for a long time, as it does occasionally.