What is "slowed"

Usage examples of "slowed".

All, in their turn, marked my Lord Artos and his tall, muscular Companions and slowed their pace so that they did not overrun us.

The unusually hot weather had somewhat slowed the snakes' usual split-second reflexes.

The transport ship appeared as a ball of fire in the sky as the retros ignited in atmosphere and slowed the descent velocity.

His respiration slowed, and his face went from flushed ochre to a more normal tawny shade.

With a final grind, the nose of the sled caught on the vines and it slowed to a halt.

The groundcar slowed down and made a sharp right off the highway onto a small side street.

They expected others to comprehend them but occasionally, as on this festive evening, they slowed their speech to gracious comprehensibility.

Triv, Kai and Varian moved among them, checking their descent into cold sleep as skins cooled and respirations slowed to the imperceptible.

Sure enough, the first shaped charge slowed, but did not stop it, and even after the second blew off one track, it still crabbed slowly down the passage toward the barrage mirror.

And just as he tumbled over the edge into the relatively safe darkness behind the wall, they slowed for descent, playing searchlights all over the entire valley, cutting pathways of brightness across the gloom and thickly falling snow.

At last the spasm passed and the laughter slowed to sighing chuckles until he could once again get his breath.

Joat did something and its progress slowed enough that the individual characters could be made out.

The turbines slowed down with painful groans and screeches, and resumed a peaceful thrum.

The two years that had passed since they had first met the globe-frogs had lightened a few more hairs on his curly head, and possibly slowed down his reactions by milliseconds, but hadn't taken a whit off his boundless good nature or enthusiasm.

She slowed down, and made her way cautiously out of the asteroid belt.