fadeout

Example Sentences

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But then endured a fadeout, suddenly and utterly unfashionable and marooned at the end of the 60s by new fads and the New Wave.

From The Guardian • Aug. 20, 2017

Where most movies of this kind would show the hero redeemed, humbled and domesticated at the end, Phillips leaves Packouz dangling from a moral precipice at the final fadeout.

From Salon • Aug. 16, 2016

If he does, it will literally be an unceremonious fadeout.

From Washington Post • Jan. 1, 2015

A scene in which two aged patrons are revealed to be two of the martial-arts stars has the intimate grandeur of a grizzled Wild West fadeout.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 9, 2014

Figure 8.—Binding screw seen at A in figure 3, showing the long smooth fadeout of the thread below the shoulder.

From Screw-Thread Cutting by the Master-Screw Method since 1480 by Battison, Edwin A.