relaxes
Example Sentences
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“Cardinal Relaxes Anti-Birth Law Stand” read the Boston Globe’s banner headline, while an editorial noted that because of Cushing’s new position the birth control issue was “no longer a rancorous controversy.”
From New York Times • Mar. 16, 2012
Yes, here is peace, now that the last convulsion Relaxes, as the heart gives up the strain.
From Time Magazine Archive
Some plant that ceases thus to share, A daily friend's auspicious care, Relaxes in its feeble grasp, The flow'ry tendrils soon unclasp, Loose in the heedless aether play, And every idle breeze obey!
From Poems by Betham, Matilda
