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• As the ocean receded from the beach it left the sand appearing wrinkled.From the entry wrinkled
• It's just a receding hairline — it's not like you're going bald.From the entry hairline
• Impossibly, after the water receded, the cat was found asleep on a chair jammed in a tree.From the entry impossibly
• Worldwide, democracy has receded to its lowest levels since the mid-70s.2026 March 17, Martin Gelin, “‘Trump is aiming for dictatorship’. That’s the verdict of the world’s most credible democracy watchdog”, in…. From the entry autocratise
• State media reported Saturday that waters have started to recede in the hard-hit Hebei city of Zhuozhou.2023 August 5, “China hit by more floods after Typhoon Doksuri”, in Deutsche Welle, archived from the original on 05 Aug 2023, China. From the entry Hebei
• In the years since the ban of refrigerants containing chlorine, the ozone hole has receded.2007 February 12, Kevin Cameron, “Greenhouse Villain Could Be a White Knight After All”, in The New York Times. From the entry hydrofluorocarbon
• So, in the end the administration acquiesced to monetary stringency and watched its tenure recede.1995, Anthony S. Campagna, “Conclusions and Legacy”, in Economic Policy in the Carter Administration (Contributions in Economics and…. From the entry stagflation
• The legions of the Wee Free were receding into the mists of Gaeldom.1991, Jan Webster, I Only Can Dance With You, page 96. From the entry Gaeldom
• Selfishness recedes, good will and gentleness for a blessed moment prevail.1982 December 25, “Opinion: Children at the Window”, in New York Times, retrieved 03 Sep 2016. From the entry better angels
• When the flood receded, the Mohave planted his corn, his squash and beans.1959, Theodora Kroeber, The Inland Whale, University of California Press, page 194. From the entry floodtime
• Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us.1926, F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Penguin, published 2000, page 171. From the entry orgastic
• Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us.1925, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, chapter 9, in The Great Gatsby, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, published 1953, →ISBN, page 182. From the entry orgiastic
• Fast-forward a decade, and this muted visual language — which came to be known as millennial blanding — has receded.2026 June 17, Callie Holtermann, “The Blobby, Drippy Maximalist Design You’re Seeing Everywhere”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry blanding
• I imagined the rooms slipping into a Havisham-esque decay as we failed them, the idea of us that I cherished receding.2015, Emma McLaughlin, Nicola Kraus, How to Be a Grown-Up, Thorndike Press, →ISBN, page 95. From the entry Havisham-esque
• Fortunately, the floods receded in a short time and many people went to the disaster areas to help the victims.2005, Cheng Yen, “Humanitarian Care Transcends All Borders”, in Foreign Language Publications Department, transl., edited by Douglas Shaw…. From the entry herculean
• Nixon as a jowly, blue-jawed villain with a ski-jump nose has receded in the light of his growing stature and achievements.1960 January 18, “The Old Caricature”, in Time. From the entry jowly
• Nixon as a jowly, blue-jawed villain with a ski-jump nose has receded in the light of his growing stature.1960 January 18, “The Press: The Old Caricature”, in Time, retrieved 05 Apr 2018. From the entry ski-jump nose
• Bertha's description of her as having flat red hair, a receding chin and long ear-rings was impressionistically accurate.1914, Ada Leverson, Bird of Paradise. From the entry impressionistically
• Yet, with their receding foreheads, wicked little close-set eyes, and yellow fangs, they were far from prepossessing in appearance.1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 165. From the entry close-set
• In the south the northernmost Alps breasted up to be swept by the receding red-gold flood of the day's last light.1911, Frank Stanton, “The Mad King of Bavaria”, in Metropolitan, volume 34, page 154. From the entry breast up
• It’s a uniquely American news story, one that eddies until it surges, and then, after it has mostly receded from view, surges again.2023, Clayton Collins, quoted in: Clayton Collins, Jingnan Peng, Right to arms, right to peace? Our writer explored a balance., in: The…. From the entry eddy
• But as numbers of legal and illegal immigrants increased, the anti-Albanian propaganda receded gradually into the background and a Pakistanphobia took its place.2019, C. Nadia Seremetakis, Sensing the Everyday: Dialogues from Austerity Greece. From the entry Pakistanphobia
• By the time that the tensions of Polonophobia slowly began to recede, Russian social consciousness had been “infected” with the dangerous syndrome of mass xenophobia.2017, Marietta Stepaniants, Religion and Identity in Modern Russia: The Revival of Orthodoxy and Islam, Routledge, →ISBN. From the entry Polonophobia
• Along the street, a delivery van’s pop music approaches and recedes with a faint Doppler effect, the cheerless band lifting and dipping a microtone.2016, Ian McEwan, Nutshell, Vintage, page 85. From the entry Doppler effect
• Despite Kyleah's fears that Elwyn had married a trolless in disguise, her trollog traits receded and rarely showed themselves again—even when she was hungry.2010, The Birthing Tree, page 265. From the entry trolless
• Detached from the more faintly registered backgrounds, unimplicated in the receding perspectives of Pabst’s compositions, these are simply actors standing in front of a set.2007 September 25, Dave Kehr, “New DVDs”, in New York Times. From the entry unimplicated
• The colour receded from his face.1976, Pauline Glen Winslow, The Brandenburg Hotel, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Press, →LCCN, act 1, section 3, pages 39 and 42. From the entry damned if one does, and damned if one doesn't
• He recalled, in passing, the sweetness in his lap, her round little bottom, her prasine eyes as she turned toward him and the receding road.1969, Vladimir Nabokov, chapter 5, in Ada, or, Ardor: A Family Chronicle, Harmondsworth, Middlesex [London]: Penguin Books, published…. From the entry prasine
• When the eccentric lowers the pitman, it unlines the toggles and the swing jaw is free to recede from the fixed jaw .1903, Robert Hallowell Richards, Breaking, crushing and comminuting, page 16. From the entry unline
• Their motifs build up from concentric bands of color (more pencil) that form a diamond, pairs of kissing U shapes or a tiled floorlike plane that refuses to recede.2015 October 1, Roberta Smith, “Alicia McCarthy Expands Her Illusions in New Work”, in New York Times. From the entry floorlike
• Serene Pugwash Pond was a three acre holeful of water, having been formed in loose till by a chunk of ice left in the wake of receding glaciers.2014, S. Dorman, Maine Metaphor: The Green and Blue House, →ISBN. From the entry holeful
• The King was now represented with a receding forehead, a lined and haggard face, a long nose, thick lips, slanting eyes, a hanging overjaw, and hollow cheeks.1993, The S S E A Journal, volume 23, page 66. From the entry overjaw
• Perhaps in our technotronic age the importance of literature as such has receded, but as it has withdrawn film and video and television have been highly literatized.1991, Ewa M. Thompson, The Search for Self-Definition in Russian Literature, page 76. From the entry literatize
• They had receding foreheads with monstrous brow-ridges, and they walked with a permanent crouch, and yet they had big brains and were skilled workers in stone.1916, Science Progress in the Twentieth Century: A Quarterly Journal of Scientific Work & Thought, volume X, page 269. From the entry Neandertaler
• Colonel Allen sat transfixed in his jeep, reminiscing as Charlie Company's Jody cadence gradually receded; echoing and re-echoing through honeysuckled foothills he had once traversed as a young officer candidate.2003, William Howard Graley, Of Silent Parades, page 209. From the entry jody cadence

Meaning of recede

1. verb To move back; to retreat; to withdraw.
2. verb To cede back; to grant or yield again to a former possessor.
3. verb To take back.

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How do you use recede in a sentence?

Recede is used as a verb. For example: “As the ocean receded from the beach it left the sand appearing wrinkled.”

What is a short sentence with recede?

“to recede conquered territory”

What does recede mean?

Recede means to move back; to retreat; to withdraw.