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Definition of Slowings
1. slowing [n] - See also: slowing
Lexicographical Neighbors of Slowings
Literary usage of Slowings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Enjoyment of Poetry by Max Eastman (1921)
"... and slowings of the flow of ideas, the flutterings—it is closer to the breath,
as modern music and modern dance are, or as primitive music and primitive ..."
2. Enjoyment of Poetry by Max Eastman (1921)
"... and slowings of the flow of ideas, the flutterings—it is closer to the breath,
as modern music and modern dance are, or as primitive music and primitive ..."
3. Enjoyment of Poetry by Max Eastman (1921)
"... and slowings of the flow of ideas, the flutterings—it is closer to the breath,
as modern music and modern dance are, or as primitive music and primitive ..."
4. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1899)
"... as is usually represented, is discontinuous and interrupted occasionally by
notable slowings and oven intermittence of the pulsations. ..."
5. Vehicles of the Air: A Popular Exposition of Modern Aeronautics with Working by Victor Lougheed (1909)
"... all rapid transit is the maintenance of speed, it being the slowings down and
the stops that SIZES OF speeds on land despite the wonder- chiefly account ..."
6. Vehicles of the Air: A Popular Exposition of Modern Aeronautics with Working by Victor Lougheed (1909)
"... it being the slowings down and the stops that SIZES OF speeds on land despite
the wonder- chiefly account for the slow average nil spurts that have been ..."