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Example sentences for "slowed down"

  • Dick, half-scornful and half-amused, as we slowed down.

  • I slowed down, and taking off my hat, inquired in French if there were anything I could do.

  • Approaching the Skyway, he cut in his touring roadlights, slowed down a trifle, and insinuated his low-flyer into the stream of traffic.

  • He slowed down to just over one light; but even at that comparatively slow speed an error of one millisecond at cut-off meant a displacement of two hundred miles!

  • As it ascended it slowed down; its monotone shriek became lower and lower in pitch; its light went down through the spectrum toward the red.

  • So "Terry" slowed down, and a handsome, slim young man ran up, greeting Sir Ralph gaily in English.

  • This I did, lest he might have some means of communicating with his friend; but once out of his sight, I slowed down, and addressed every one I met, in Italian.

  • As it slowed down, car after car passing us, Mamma gave a little scream and pointed.

  • These considerations do not affect photo-plays produced in the studio so materially, because there the actions of the players can be slowed down to suit the conditions.

  • So, in projection, the speed is slowed down; the subject photographed at two thousand pictures per second is thrown upon the screen and brought to the eye at the rate of sixteen pictures per second.

  • To obtain a lifelike result, his pace should be slowed down 75 per cent.

  • As we turned into the main street, I slowed down.

  • The next second my head-lights showed what it was, and I slowed down.

  • Here the road broadened, so I slowed down and, in response to a nod from my mistress, proceeded to turn round.

  • He doubled around several corners, and at last, as he turned into a more traveled street, he slowed down to a walk.

  • Rapidly they covered the ground toward the outposts, and nearing them, slowed down.

  • Then he slowed down a moment to take stock of injuries.

  • In an instant the motor-cycle ceased the explosions, and, in a little while it slowed down so that Jerry could dismount.

  • Then it slowed down, ran close to the curb and stopped.

  • There was a woeful squeak, and, after a few revolutions that wheel, too, slowed down.

  • I thought Matron wanted to speak to them and luckily, as it turned out, I slowed down.

  • Would you believe it we slowed down to walking pace so as to miss 'er!

  • Hurrah," I cried, as we slowed down to a walk, "five more days and then on leave to England!

  • He slowed down, and McBride paused with him.

  • He ran a few steps in that direction, slowed down for a lagging second or two, spurted again, and ducked around the corner of a big machine shop on the left of the road a little below the guard house.

  • It slowed down, but we couldn’t tell whether it stopped, or whether the trees muffled the sound.

  • And the blooming thing is good for sixty miles an hour over a half-way decent road--though it can be slowed down to just about two miles an hour, and still be ready for a quick jump.

  • In the distance now, as they sped along, Jack's practiced ear caught a strange sound, and he slowed down so that he might listen the better.

  • He was playing for high stakes now, and at last he slowed down--not much, but enough to let the other car make a perceptible gain.

  • As soon as the driver of the other car saw the machine in which the three Scouts were riding, he slowed down.

  • He came right on, with his head up, then he slowed down to a walk, and looked back over his shoulder.

  • Bymby, in the afternoon, here he came running, and I run to meet him when he slowed down.

  • So I slowed down to a crawl, and blow me, when I got within hearin' distance, I seed a man by the fire.

  • We passed several cottages and at the last he slowed down.

  • Then he began to talk, and, as he talked, he slowed down.

  • I dare say he could, but at that moment, we slowed down at a station and Stumm got up to leave.

  • The arches of a bridge, spanning two forks of the stream, showed in front, and as I slowed down at the bend a sentry's challenge rang out from a block-house.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "slowed down" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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