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
Even at the commercial end of the industry, it would be wrong to extrapolate from the demise of the party clown any sort of falling-off in general clowning.
From The Guardian • Dec. 20, 2018
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
Heretofore, the message of spring, in Henry’s estimation, had been a welcome to new clothes, golf, horseback parties, and out-of-door flirtations; this season, it meant to him a falling-off in the motion-picture business.
From Rope by Hall, Holworthy
