subsiding

Bill feels a sensation like “subsiding into a pile of bones.”

Has the subsiding of the 1990s crime wave changed - not only the quantity of gun incidents - but also the character?

One factor is the subsiding of the crack-cocaine epidemic that hit Washington hard in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

A biggish sea running, subsiding as the day went on—and my mind grew calmer with the waves.

On the 4th day, the inflammation was evidently subsiding, and on the 6th it was scarcely perceptible.

I said, I thought the heat a little, and but a little, subsiding.

Val sat up very straight, and made her a sign, subsiding quickly upon a look from Mrs. Gano.

There was a game of hide-and-seek on the lawn, and when the shrieks and laughter were subsiding, some one began to sing within.