Get thinner, like a candle

Usage examples of taper.

The post was tapered to an acanthus pattern and was the best thing in the house, just about, along with the plank floor in the kitchen.

The bunches of agrimony hanging head downward inside the warm dark cave were an infusion of the dried flowers and leaves useful for bruises and injuries to internal organs, as much as they were tall slender perennials with toothed leaves and tiny yellow flowers growing on tapering spikes.

Between the thick cords were dark anfractuous clefts five times his height, tapering away to knife-thin fissures.

Next he punched the tapered tip of clear plastic tube about an inch in diameter through the aortic wall.

At each end the cell tapers to a point from which the sarcolemma appears to continue as a fine thread, and this, by attaching itself to the inclosing sheath, holds the cell in place.

The water splashed down his legs to his hooves and flowed on out of the baobab tree, tapering off as its volume diminished.

Till the luminous cinctures of melody up from the ground Arose as the shaft of a tapering tower of sound -- Arose for an unstricken full-finished Babel of sound.

I can still see the little chapel which you fitted up one day in your desk, the pretty wax tapers we made for it, which we lighted one day during the cosmography class.

The boat tapered to a sharp cutwater at the prow, which extended forward.

There were no pikes in evidence, but each man wore a sword and long dagger ensheathed upon his belt, and their features looked hard in the light of guttering tapers mounted at odd intervals upon the stone walls.

In addition to the features which I have already described, the beast was equipped with a massive tail about six feet in length, quite round where it joined the body, but tapering to a flat, thin blade toward the end, which trailed at right angles to the ground.

For some seventy feet it rose a beautiful tapering brown pillar without a single branch, but at that height splendid dark green boughs, which, looked at from below, had the appearance of gigantic fern-leaves, sprang out horizontally from the trunk, projecting right over the house and flower-garden, to both of which they furnished a grateful proportion of shade, without -- being so high up -- offering any impediment to the passage of light and air.

Martin Ellicott gave the taper to his butler and unbolted the front door, sending Fibber out into the night air to greet a dusty and mud-spattered coach, the horses worn and thirsty from the speed of travel rather than the extent of their journey.

Tapers of slime ran down the walls, fungal growths blooming from the cracks.

Displayed on mantel or table with the Bible, a taper, sprigs of galax, so that the effect was altarlike.