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"Taper" in a Sentence (18 examples)
For three days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.
I saw the mouldering ruin of an abbey overrun with ivy, and the taper spire of a village church rising from the brow of a neighboring hill.
He needed to taper off venlafaxine.
She dissolved like a taper.
A single taper lit the entire room.
Strike on the Tinder, hoa: / Giue me a Taper: […]
Take not away the Taper, leaue it burning:
He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.
The red glare of the tapers flung a strange unnatural hue on the painted windows of the little Gothic chapel, where none slept save the noble of name, and the high of blood—purple and crimson, the colours mingled together in fantastic combinations, till the rainbow-hued figures seemed to move with supernatural life.
Love used to carry a bow, you know, But now he carries a taper; It is either a length of wax aglow, Or a twist of lighted paper.
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the taper of a spire
The legs of the table had a slight taper to them.
Her hair hangs over her ears and flows to a taper at the back of her neck where it is held in place with a wide and circular black clasp.
ensuring the cleanliness of the taper of a machine tool spindle or of a tool shank
a drug taper
Though true cylinders without — within, the villainous green goggling glasses deceitfully tapered downwards to a cheating bottom.
Like other supertall towers, 432 Park relies on the counterweight system to address the forces of wind and reduce the feeling of swaying for residents. But unlike many other supertall towers that are tiered or taper toward the top, 432 Park is rectangular, making it less aerodynamic.
Current major clinical practice guidelines provide little support for clinicians wishing to help patients discontinue or taper antidepressants in terms of mitigating and managing withdrawal symptoms.
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