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Usage examples of "tapering off".
Rain was predicted well into the night, tapering off shortly before midnight.
Bosch turned and looked back at the wall, its far end tapering off into darkness.
And behind all that, tapering off into the distance, was a long, whiplike tail.
The pavement went tapering off into the distance, like a band of wet mirror under a few spaced lights.
World War II was not the original California boom, but a rebirth of a thing that began in the thirties and was already tapering off when the war economy made California a new Valhalla.