Use "slackening" in a sentence
1. During World War I, there came opposition, testing and sifting, and a slackening of their activities.
2. Melanie hung onto it as life line, straining , pulling it taut, slackening it, tearing it.
3. Synonyms for Bating include ebbing, lessening, waning, aBating, moderating, slackening, lapsing, easing, checking and curbing
4. This line is then pulled down to pull the Backstays together (and tension them) or slides up to allow the Backstays to separate (and follow a more direct line) thus slackening them.
5. By activation of pull means (ring 17) the tube tip may be made to tilt in the curvature plane of the tube in order to be inserted into aditus laryngis under auscultatory-tactile control and further through glottis onwards to trachea upon gradually slackening the pull via the ring.
6. Amidmost of the summertide To search the dwellings of the deer Until the heat of noon was near; Then slackening speed awhile they went Adown a ragged thorn-bushed bent At whose feet grew a tangled wood Of oak and holly nowise good: But therethrough with some pain indeed And rending of the ladies' weed They won at last, and after found