Sentence Examples

1. On the 4th, however, the sea became more calm, and the storm lessened its violence the wind veered southward, and was once more favourable.
2. The pain of his continued residence in Highbury, however, must certainly be lessened by his marriage.
3. Two of them held him down as his violent struggles lessened.
4. As my ability to control my mind grew, my dependency on booze lessened.
5. Her trepidation remained, but it lessened as she looked into my battered eyes.
6. The gunfire had lessened, with shots coming every few seconds.
7. Though the things Lance had seen and done still haunted him, the weight of it all was lessened, alleviated because he had someone to share the horrors with.
8. The wind blowing in my face from our swift descent lessened somewhat.
9. But as I continued to fight it the lust eventually lessened.
10. And this similitude was regarded as by no means lessened when, upon nearer inspection, there was perceived a large tassel depending from its apex, and, around the upper rim or base of the cone, a circle of little instruments, resembling sheep-bells, which kept up a continual tinkling to the tune of Betty Martin.