| On the other hand, brightly colored variegated ribbon grass planted behind catmint backlights the catmint and makes its flowers recede. |
| As the ridges began to recede from the river, kills flowed down to expend themselves in the Hudson. |
| In his latest film, he evokes the lost glamour of the Jazz Age, blurring lines until the image seems to recede into misty memories. |
| She stood perfectly still, listening to his footsteps recede down the hall. |
| He told her how he had been suddenly placed in a position of terrible difficulty, from which neither honour nor duty would allow him to recede. |
| Fragments of the numbers seem to emerge from or recede into the gestures and sfumato of the ground. |
