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• Months after they printed the article, the number of angry letters finally started to taper off.From the entry taper off
• The stick was sharply tapered at one end.From the entry sharply
• The glass tapers off at the top.From the entry taper off
• During assembly of a flare tube fitting, a flare nut is used to secure the flared tubing’s tapered end to the also tapered fitting, producing a pressure-resistant, leak-tight seal.From the entry flare
• It's very common to experience some strange symptoms during the marathon taper.2022, Sam Murphy, Run Your Best Marathon: Your trusted guide to training and racing better, Bloomsbury Publishing, page 200. From the entry maranoia
• The only route to hand-shaping tapered silver-needle noodles so effortlessly is years and years of practice.2019 October 30, Devra First, “A new frontier for grandma’s cooking”, in The Boston Globe, volume 296, number 122, Boston, Mass.: Boston…. From the entry silver-needle noodle
• "The kilij has a slight taper down the straight part of the blade.2015 March 17, John Wayne Falbey, “Chapter 39 Dubai”, in Endangered Species: A Sleeping Dogs Thriller, volume 2, The Falbey Group, LLC…. From the entry kilij
• Antennal bases enlarged, forming straight bidentate horns, tapered and pointed ventroapically.2015 July 2, Dorchin N, Astrin JJ, Bodner L, Harris KM, “Morphological and Molecular Revision of the Genus Ozirhincus (Diptera…. From the entry ventroapically
• First was his straight tapered leg, sometimes with a spade foot, at other times tipped in brass.2011, George Grotz, The Furniture Doctor, →ISBN. From the entry spade foot
• The chopstick-like pin on the one that snagged was ornamentally grooved, but probably not significantly tapered.2011 September 22, Richard Hagen, “CanSat Deployment Failure”, in ARLISS Flyers (Google Groups). From the entry chopstick-like
• The rain had tapered off to a sprinkly drizzle, Portland's most prevalent weather condition.2007, Bill Cameron, Lost Dog. From the entry sprinkly
• The stem of swamp tupelo is commonly less swollen than water tupelo but tapers more gradually.1982, J. R. Saucier, Tupelo: An American Wood. From the entry swamp tupelo
• Up front, a new softer "floating" cuff and a tapered rib— both for easier flex.1975 Sep, Ski, volume 40, number 1, page 24. From the entry flexy
• It tapered up into the air, maybe a dozen times as high as a man.1967 February, Algis Budrys, “The Iron Thorn”, in Frederik Pohl, editor, Worlds of IF Science Fiction, volume 17, number 2 (111 overall)…. From the entry spikey
• Taking along a pint of P.G. and a large supply of goof balls to taper off.1948, William S. Burroughs, letter, 30 Nov 1948. From the entry pg
• Of gold were its twin sconces, and four tall tapers stood in each of them.1911, Max Beerbohm, chapter II, in Zuleika Dobson. From the entry cheval glass
• Fukuyama is short with large ears and a wide, eggish forehead which tapers down to a tight, pointy chin.2020 October 26, Brent Crane, “Woodworking with Francis Fukuyama”, in The Economist, London: The Economist Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived…. From the entry eggish
• Microscopic appearances consist of round to spindled cells with tapering cytoplasm arranged in storiform patterns in a collagenous matrix.2015 July 6, Matthew M. Kwok, Muthukumar Subramaniyan, Sor Way Chan, “Solitary Fibrous Tumour of the Parotid Gland: A Case Report and…. From the entry storiform
• One of the oldest fittings used in hydraulic systems is the threaded seal metal-to-metal tapered union (Figure 7-1).2010, Ben Watson, Mobile Equipment Hydraulics, page 100. From the entry metal-to-metal
• Conversely, stay away from capri or tapered pants.2009 November 9, Jill Martin, Pierre A. Lehu, Fashion For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN. From the entry capri
• When the original face-lift has been performed and it pulls down on the earlobe, a tight, tapered lobe often follows.2009, Berish Strauch, Luis O. Vasconez, M.d., Elizabeth J. Hall-Findlay, Grabb's Encyclopedia of Flaps - Volume 1. From the entry meloplasty
• The best-known peanut-butter cups are made by Reese’s in an iconic round, tapered cup shape with fluted sides.2009, Anita Chu, “Peanut-Butter Cups”, in Field Guide to Candy: How to Identify and Make Virtually Every Candy Imaginable, Philadelphia…. From the entry peanut-butter cup
• In addition to the noncentering of the rivet holes, one of the rivets was tapered and the two rivets were overlapping.2005, Failure Analysis of Engineering Structures. From the entry noncentering
• Also wet-sanding soaks the paper facing, sometimes dislodges the tape, and tends to round joint compound edges rather than taper them.2005, Michael W. Litchfield, Renovation, →ISBN, page 356. From the entry wet-sanding
• The face washer is tapered to provide a uniform flow surface between the backup washer and the face washer.1980, Canadian Committee on Forest Fire Control, Reports Tabled at Annual Meeting, page 30. From the entry face washer
• A number of these gray pieces take the form of step-like towers that taper gradually toward the top.1976, “Orenstein, Philip”, in Judith Tannenbaum, editor, New York Art Yearbook, 1975–1976, volume 1, New York, N.Y.: Noyes Art Books…. From the entry sugarcube
• General shape musciform, tapered anteriorly, blunt posteriorly.1918, J. R. Malloch, “A Preliminary Classification of Diptera, Exclusive of Pupipara, Based upon Larval and Pupal Characters”, in Bulletin…. From the entry musciform
• The flood had started early that morning, tapering off as the mourners gathered at the gravesite before the bottom fell out again.2026, Amie Louellen, Southern Nights: 2 Contemporary Romances. From the entry bottom falls out
• He stood with his sketchbook in front of the case of perciform fishes, lavishing attention on the turn and taper of every rib.2021, Richard Powers, Bewilderment, Hutchinson Heinemann, page 211. From the entry perciform
• On the each end was a leanback made of willow rods tied together in a tapered trapezoidal form set at an angle.2013, Jeffrey D. Anderson, Arapaho Women's Quillwork: Motion, Life, and Creativity, page 61. From the entry trapezoidal
• His proudest offering is a matched pair of 17th-century huanghuali tapered cabinets formerly in the Museum of Classical Chinese Furniture in Renaissance, Calif.2008 March 14, Wendy Moonan, “Rare Works by Eminent Britons”, in New York Times. From the entry huanghuali
• The tapered configuration is said to reduce the number of revolutions needed to threadedly connect the first segment 10 to the second segment 12.2006, Mark J. Thronson, Intellectual Property Legal Opinions, →ISBN, page 3-8. From the entry threadedly
• Variations.—Most specimens examined have concave rostral margins that taper to the acumen and the rostral length is greater than the rostral width.1993, Biological Society of Washington, Smithsonian Institution, Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, Volume 106, page 351. From the entry acumen

Meaning of taper

1. noun A slender wax candle.
2. noun A small light.
3. noun A tapering form; gradual diminution of thickness and/or cross section in an elongated object.

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Questions about taper in a sentence

How do you use taper in a sentence?

Taper is used as a noun, verb and adjective. For example: “The legs of the table had a slight taper to them.”

What is a short sentence with taper?

“a drug taper”

What does taper mean?

Taper means a slender wax candle.