Examples of slacken

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After they had lain hove-to for 14 hours, the wind slackened, the seas became less violent, and the small flotilla got under way again.
There are clear indications that there was a slackening off of mechanization in the depression years of the mid-1860s.
The tight ranks wavered and melted before the driving spearhead, even though it was now sadly deformed and its speed slackened.
Ultimately, however, the law became consonant across state boundaries because the railroads ran across those same boundaries without slackening their speed or altering their operation.
He stared at her with those bright, grey, intense eyes for some moments as his tension slackened.
In the evening the wind slackened, out of the southeast; by around 8 o'clock it fell calm.
Censorship and control of public associations was slackened.
Despite a daunting array of sources, her control never slackens, both sharpened and underpinned by an exacting sensitivity to text.
Thus, cultivation slackened, and the farms were ruined.
None the less, demand for education is still high, at primary and secondary levels, and with an annual population growth rate of 3.5 per cent, shows no sign of slackening.
Finally, there is the acknowledgment, no less weary or oblique, that his mind's penchant for sudden, morally and emotionally painful associative leaps shows no signs of slackening.
In the heat of the moment, he might slacken his moral principles.
Economic activity, however, was already beginning to slacken after over two years of governmental restraint and unemployment had begun to increase.
If they slacken, they are told to" bull up" so loudly that their eardrums quiver.
As prevalence decreases, however, the incentive, and thus demand, will slacken and allow the susceptible population to increase until the disease can reinvade.
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