What is "taper off"

Usage examples of "taper off".

At first funding and material support from ch'Rihan were fairly munificent: but after the reorganization of the Praetorate and Senate, the assistance began to taper off slowly as the loyal voices in the government became preoccupied with other concerns, or died out and were replaced by people who cared less.

At first she closed her ears to them but they didn't taper off so she got up and descended the stairs.

He had become used to having more of her company, and Robyn was using the girl as an excuse to taper off their relationship, preparing him for the news that she must deliver before they reached Quelimane.

Despite his earlier resolve to taper off, Kane found himself drinking toast for toast with his officers.

As it finally began to taper off (by then Bill's face had gone a plummy shade which George regarded with some alarm), the piano stopped again.

All he had to do was to lie down, count, and wait for the wind to taper off.

As we noted earlier, economists had predicted that interest rates would rise at the beginning of that decade and then level out or taper off.

They were able to do little, and before the epidemics began to taper off, from fifty to seventy percent of each ship's complement had died.

After he leaves the study, Lorn walks slowly along the covered portico of the upper level of the house, pausing to look southward through the rain that is beginning to taper off toward the gray stormy waters of the harbor, waters more often than not usually an intense blue, with the intensity of the water's color underscored by the white sunstone piers.

After the first conversion the entries begin to taper off: but all are optimistic, at times euphoric.

Some time passed before similar replies, mostly obscene, began to taper off.