falling-off
Example Sentences
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Long-simmered to a tender, falling-off the-bone state, this braised chicken is fragrant with smoky paprika and cumin.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 3, 2023
"We did have significant increase in books that were being ordered during lockdown, and we haven't found it falling-off since, we have an awful lot of people that read a lot," she says.
From BBC • Oct. 6, 2021
Season 2 represents a falling-off from the pulpy highs of Season 1, however, at least in the early episodes.
From New York Times • Mar. 18, 2016
The Warwick Commission earlier this year found a marked falling-off in cultural education in schools.
From The Guardian • Jun. 5, 2015
If anything further was needed to purify his friendship from all love, it was this swift falling-off of the leaves of so fair a passion-flower;–towards the suffering, one is ashamed of the least selfishness.
From Hesperus or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days Vol. II A Biography by Jean Paul
