Sentence examples for to slackening from inspiring English sources
verb
To gradually decrease in intensity or tautness; to become slack.
The move was in response to slackening demand for smaller television sets.
Still, the account suggests the committee was closer to slackening — specifically, by reeling in its prediction that interest rates will remain near zero until late 2014.
Tumbling commodity prices, due to slackening demand from China and India, mean that Indonesia's traditional sources of revenue, from coal, oil, gas and more, are under pressure.
This framework, however, cannot be used to detect incipient failure in the restrainers due to slackening or snapping.
Though this may point to slackening demand for the iPhone 5, it could also mean that Foxconn is preparing to adjust its production line in order to install automated robots as a way to get around increasing wages and concerns that poor working conditions played a role in a series of worker suicides.
In each case, the flow seems unlikely to slacken.
The bonds of traditional family life began to slacken.
No one should expect oversight to slacken again.
Beginning around 1960, the aesthetics begin to slacken.
Meanwhile, Titian refused to slacken his grip on preëminence, let alone die.
A little bit of monitoring only annoys the good workers, causing them to slacken off.
