For many other young people - along with, increasingly, the poor - the wagon is quickly receding and leaving them behind.

Her cheeks were dyed with the hot blood which quickly receded and left them pale at the thought that she would never see him again.

There followed hurried activity in the darkness, and then the sound of quickly receding footsteps.

Ten minutes ago the moon had been on the eastern horizon; now it was in the south, and quickly receding.

In the 1930s, the glacier was found to be receding quickly.

"In Chelsea, it was a basic temporary flood situation, which quickly receded."

But it receded quickly and he was up on his feet, moving down the walkway.

He heard voices crying out from the shore, receding quickly.

The bubbling foam quickly recedes to the power of the surf.

He'd been dreaming, nightmaring, but the dreams were quickly receding in the face of reality.