She held him to this agreement despite his protests, which gradually subsided.

Usually it heralded rains even so, but this year the river gradually subsided once more.

They subsided gradually or were repressed in the early 1980s.

There the emotional turbulence gradually subsided, in part through her return to art.

But as the cold war gradually subsided, bits of information started to come through.

And he sat down to watch his brother, to wait as the coughing gradually subsided.

It continued to spout for several minutes, then gradually subsided.

The fire spewed out of the cave for what seemed hours, and then it gradually subsided.

The only relief during the long wait was the fact that the heat began to subside gradually.

In the distance the sounds of the inn gradually subsided.