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    1. This basically means that if your portfolios are tied up too much into banks fixed deposits and bonds, your buying power may fade away over the years


    2. Fade to: John watching the fire crackle as he waits to interview the President


    3. Zitteraal smiles down at him, fade back slowly to the room with the crackling fire


    4. As Dave finishes speaking, one of the moons and many of the stars fade from the sky


    5. Slowly, the rest of the stars and the moon fade until the sky is pitch dark, the waves stop


    6. ’ I assured her, thinking that it would have been kinder if Jack hadn’t lived to fade slowly away with emphysema – he’d not found life at all easy and it had cut me up terribly watching him degenerate into frail helplessness


    7. Surely he could just sit and fade out of the world as he had always wished?


    8. I lay on the mattress in my underground cell and let the drifting memories of London and Usman fade to black


    9. It occurred to me as I focused on the grainy film flickering in my head that their faces were already starting to fade


    10. in the fade of close held skin, its scent rising,

    11. as her stubborn beauty refuses to fade,


    12. to fade the colours that they dream, wait


    13. and one by one the streets fade


    14. as a lover, but I too begin to fade,


    15. The lights fade to nothing and the screen lights up


    16. He didn’t even want to have to think about the person he was then, he wanted to let those memories fade away


    17. Every room is the same, a place where colours fade to a bland shade of blue


    18. Sitting in the back of a cab in morose silence, Billy lets the music in his head fade to dull static


    19. Whatever toxins were in his blood stream were beginning to fade, and soon


    20. A few more circles and the snarls began to fade

    21. Now young man, 'What do ya say to that?'” And without waiting for his young friend's smile to fade from expression into words, he began the story once more from where he'd left off---but with a caveat: “I should probably explain that while Harry was still finishing his Malvern studies, a new beginning of sorts was arising amongst his family and friends


    22. The confidence I had in Roman was starting to fade as Freddy’s troops


    23. or allow them to fade into the background of history


    24. Focus on Jesus and let the cares of those around you fade away for a time


    25. and more real, and the world, with its lusts, will begin to fade


    26. the passion I have for God will fade away in time


    27. He would endure the pain, then fade to oblivion, joining all that he had once cherished


    28. solely occupied the mind, fade at this junction before the journey


    29. the redness will fade out


    30. The pain does fade over time

    31. Sometimes thinks can waver and then fade out


    32. When thinks waver and fade with adults, it's


    33. At least they had a twinkling light in the cavern, one that would later fade


    34. Also, that light of yours is about to fade again, you should recast it


    35. She watched him fade into the distance until he had blended into the hospital walls from which he appeared to have sprung


    36. However, as they grow older, these memories start to fade away


    37. He decided it was a good time to take a break as light was starting to fade in the late afternoon


    38. Again! They had only begun kissing, when he began to fade


    39. translucent tone of his milky skin, which seemed to fade, as the man stared at it


    40. It was the first pictures of Jean he had, a memory of her that would never fade

    41. As I got older, they dwindled down to a scattered few and I felt some of the magic fade


    42. Trying to hold on to the experience, trying to analyse it, caused it to fade rapidly


    43. Systems monitor L Seven-six M felt the awareness begin to fade


    44. The world began to fade


    45. It took a few seconds after he had activated the switch until his form began to fade


    46. The lunar surface filled the view-screen at an alarming rate, its illuminated face causing the image to fade to a tolerable level


    47. “Christchurch harbour,” he said watching the lights on the Isle of Wight fade away in the gloom


    48. Once sunlight had begun to fade, the stars had appeared, but contrary to Broshee's expectations, they did not chase the monsters away


    49. Soffen drank in every word, hungry to hear him, but knowing the effects of the medication would all to quickly fade


    50. computer game should fade in such a way with some relaxing background music













































    1. There was some hand drawn street map in a foreign language in with it, and a faded old map of Gengee with some of that language on it


    2. He could imagine her turning to dry powder in his arms, stabbing himself on the splinters of her bones as her shrill cackle faded into the cold distance of outer space


    3. The other was a faded old geological map of the Gengee, where a desolate wasteland deep in the West Gengee Empty was marked up in Portuguese


    4. As he tasted them, so the walls and furnishings of the room faded and ripped,


    5. under the ever ticking clock-face of consumer excess faded out completely


    6. slowed his pace, drew close, pressing his body into hers and as the music faded he


    7. faded back into her everyday clothes and the jewels sparkled once more, briefly,


    8. The glowing dot at the end of the streak faded to black, but it was still approaching


    9. being suitable, but there was a sign, faded and hanging at an angle because one of the


    10. The sound of cars faded completely as Lucy took a tentative step off the ramp

    11. The severed head’s animated smile faded slowly as the pipes, leads and motors


    12. He could see, even in the dim light of the cell, how tired and faded


    13. Over the next few hours the adrenalin faded, the spring wound down, and I felt decidedly fatigued


    14. The nicotine rush faded almost as quickly as it had hit me, leaving me feeling slightly nauseous but suddenly very aware of something new and wonderful


    15. The dull weight of bodies and testosterone faded into silence as the monstrous beast moved away and down the stairs


    16. Nothing caught his eye as being suitable, but there was a sign, faded and hanging at an angle because one of the cable ties holding it to a chain link fence had snapped


    17. Closing her eyes, fighting against the sharp disinfectant smell of the hospital, she forced herself to picture the interior of the bus … nauseating diesel fumes … a dingy, well used fabric covering the seats, chipped and faded paint on the accoutrements of metal … or was it plastic? She found it hard to tell sometimes … she heard again the chatter and laughter of the young people as they swayed along the aisle towards the door as the vehicle approached the bus stop


    18. The sound of cars faded completely as Lucy took a tentative step off the ramp and into the underpass proper


    19. The severed head’s animated smile faded slowly as the pipes, leads and motors ceased their moment of work, but the eyes remained fixed on Danton


    20. I know every faded patch of carpet on the stairs,

    21. Under a bed there is a faded green cardboard


    22. The paper on which they sit is faded and dry,


    23. Now, when it is too late for me to tell the long faded traces


    24. to the nines in jeans, a faded plaid shirt


    25. Then he was away again, unveiling his possessions and finding little faded photographs everywhere


    26. During the long sweep of days that passed during which the family had faded into its current state of dilapidated grandeur, the great city had, conversely, spread its teeming streets far and wide


    27. Lady Maya was brought out of the Hall and they were all surprised at how much she had faded


    28. He reached inside his jacket and pulled out a battered old pair of faded, blue ribbed shin pads


    29. ' It was good to laugh with the locals and sure enough, after spreading the stuff over my soreness, the stinging faded and the throbbing disappeared


    30. And on a wall in a smaller room were faded painted traces of dark fat grapes and twisting in through the window, grey old straying twists of some very lively jasmine, and even wild rosemary

    31. Tom saw in her faded looks and in her dimming eyes a future that he was not inclined to embrace


    32. The young man pressed another button on the remote control and all of the phantom images faded into the shadows cast by the candles that illuminated the great abbey


    33. As the couple’s time of fecundity faded, and as their reserves of money and physical strength began to dwindle, Eileen prayed to every saint under the sun for a child


    34. a couple of faded tee shirts each, spent the rest of her money on


    35. family had faded into its current state of dilapidated grandeur, the


    36. faded winter finery in the middle of the flower bed with her head


    37. and all of the phantom images faded into the shadows cast by the


    38. Hesitantly he placed his foot on the first step, and suddenly everything else faded away


    39. time of fecundity faded, and as their reserves of money and


    40. The horrors of the War slowly faded to a distant memory,

    41. this had been brightly painted, but it now faded to a point of near


    42. Into the middle of the Majestic Hall, the hazy form of a Jade Bear became noticeable but quickly faded to the normal human shape of a Jade resident


    43. walls were decorated with faded prints and horse brasses


    44. hunter said, indicating a faded scar on his cheek now almost covered


    45. pictures and sounds faded to a pinprick before


    46. Bram waved his hand, and the lettering faded instantly


    47. The skirt, faded from age and wear, but clean, ended at the woman’s waist, and was topped by a yellowed white blouse, partially covered with a light brown cloak


    48. She can almost feel the roughness of the wooden cubes with faded paint … they belonged to her mum when she was a baby she remembered from somewhere


    49. So, in disappointment of the hopeful schemes of both sets of parents, the match fizzled and faded without consummation


    50. covered his body entirely, but faded at the ends into














































    1. It’s weird but I feel like I should remember more about my dad but it’s only some small things that stay vivid in my head while the rest kind of fades away


    2. John’s POV: The fire fades into Zitteraal standing over him at the side of the bed, the penlight in hand


    3. some confusion is inevitable: Could he be a playful, elf-like man who comes down from the canyon at dawn to sprinkle dew over the ground before others awaken? Or simply a wonderfully unobtrusive groundskeeper who literally fades into the landscape while dutifully taking care of the foliage? Actually


    4. Everything fades with time


    5. Her smile fades a little


    6. A human child is born, erupts through puberty, mellows in maturity, fades with age, and eventually returns to the dust of death


    7. Reason, defeated by logic, fades; negative thoughts pounding me from every side, I struggle to rationalise


    8. fades into shadow at the hint of your sweet scent,


    9. Definition fades with the closing in


    10. It fades as the food hits but we are going to have to work out a strategy to deal with this if we are to survive it

    11. MY sight fades


    12. Leona fades the microphone out and plays in a recording of police sirens


    13. His skin fades to a pallid white and he feels physically sick, feels the heat rise and sweat break out on his forehead


    14. Beyond the immediate sprawl of the hospital buildings Barnstaple fades quickly in Billy's rear view mirror, not that he is at all aware of the mirror, signal, manoeuvre process


    15. The crowd builds up in there before dusk fades


    16. hoping that his smell never fades away


    17. that the thing, whatever the thing may be, fades


    18. The room fades in an instant


    19. the mind and fades


    20. And without the rain, their leaf fades and their seed flees into the dust, never to rise again

    21. Being Africa that may not have happened but even if it did we find often that through the years the sign fades because of age


    22. “Older than empires,” he said, “but memory fades


    23. His own smile fades when he looks at me again


    24. Then his smile fades


    25. But that fades from my mind when the crowd before me thins and I see the rest of the room


    26. The flash of memory fades, but I still can’t move


    27. ” David’s smile fades as he looks around at all of us


    28. Everything blooms in the spring, and then fades with the autumn leaves


    29. 30 For you shall be as an oak whose leaf fades, and as a


    30. 4 The earth mourns and fades away,

    31. 12 Wisdom is glorious, and never fades away: yes, she is easily seen of them that love her, and found of such as seek her


    32. would have had to be replaced regularly, as this colour fades quickly


    33. window, which would have had to be replaced regularly, as this colour fades


    34. One is Action Pop-Up, which is a fade in window that fades into your site and asks for the opt-


    35. The yellow bright glow around the ship slowly fades away by the very cold air


    36. The bell sound fades away, so does the images he remembered


    37. Please don’t go, don’t go, please don’t go,” Jaden said as the vision fades away into stars


    38. The memory fades away


    39. The bright red light fades back into the molecule and it goes back into the ship


    40. The black comet fades far behind

    41. M: The state of identity is inherent in reality and never fades


    42. First the design fades, then


    43. The Sun's intoxicating warmth soon fades away, however, and yesterday's darkness returns thereafter


    44. After a few seconds the number fades away, and the light's intensity returns to normal


    45. A guitar plays lazily as the laughter fades, and a male voice sings


    46. ” His voice fades, as if drowning in melancholy


    47. It will be most effective as the tines are first plucked, and the effect will fade as the sound and vibration fades


    48. Some of the anger in Jemelda’s eyes fades, though most remains


    49. It sputters once and fades


    50. He stares at his fingers as the crimson fire fades












































    1. God: The fading element of truth in God’s


    2. The simplicity of inaction, of this fading protest, appealed to me


    3. Each of them lasted a ten-thousandth of a second, but each one burned itself on his retina so that in only a few moments of looking up at that dazzling display, his vision was a network of slowly fading veins of blindness


    4. In spite of my slow recovery from the beating, with the aches and bruises still smarting but fading, I was now eager to be up and off every morning and every evening


    5. An eerie haze was gradually covering everything, as the mystic light was fading away


    6. of the fading moonbeams


    7. fading to watery pink as its strength and body declines


    8. fading the edges of the letters mud green


    9. fading with his slow, breaking breath


    10. Plaster cracks with the fading echo of low voices

    11. Wiesse contacted us, explained the situation and asked if we could help you … I was delighted to be able to be part of this, Lintze, it has been a great sorrow for me watching the land fading … I wanted to do something positive if only to ensure that Marea grows up in a better place


    12. fading we two into the grey sea water,


    13. So, with that Desmond thing fading,


    14. with faces fading into the anonymous dark of age


    15. Words were said, the harmony they had once shared as a group seemed to be fading


    16. At the base of a ruby vase full of fading morning lilies


    17. within strong walls are fading grey


    18. Before I could turn to thank him, he was back on the dusty forecourt finishing an impromptu game of shuttlecock with a departing tourist, and with the light fading fast, everything else could wait


    19. The tender sounds floated away to silence, fading in the air beneath a sky full of jewellery that danced before my eyes between the open shutters


    20. It didn’t take long for him to see that Lady Maya was fading fast

    21. 'I was trying to make him understand that all our young are leaving and the families are fading away


    22. Then just as suddenly as it had come the storm passed in a fading breeze


    23. many of the darkling centres of fading wealth that nestled amongst


    24. Plummer interrupted his thoughts, “Sir, I have a blip on my screen, it’s fading in and out


    25. could hear from the world above were fading almost to silence


    26. He drops a gear on the hill rising out of the village and points the car in the general direction of Bideford, but the innocence of his journey is fading


    27. The redness in Mickey’s cheeks is fading, leaving the veins on his nose as a rough guide to the state of his liver and coronary function


    28. In these fading years they can share a drink and these days Ted does most of the milking


    29. My confidence was fading


    30. The passenger window of the Lexus is fading to pink

    31. A stop sign hung from one of the walls, pink instead of red from fading by


    32. Whether it was my voice or the tears coming from Johnny’s fading eye,


    33. While Billy sits quiet and still amid the heavy metal sounds of the custody suite, his companions reach out and take his hands in theirs and the three of them begin to mime and mug like savant idiots, and with the sound turned down, with the picture fading to a single white dot, they start to belt out Billy’s favourite song without shifting a single molecule of air:


    34. That notion was fading with this conversation


    35. possibility of more food fading with each negative answer


    36. As the fading of the desert rose


    37. It was a single comet streaking across the sky, fading as quickly as it


    38. He clawed his way to the tower, only to collapse at its base – utterly spent; his skin fading to an oily black


    39. In her mind she felt him fading away


    40. world are fading away and that they have eternal riches in

    41. The figure in the pool grew distant from Nicola, his thoughts fading from her mind


    42. The lads quickly glanced into the spoons and indeed saw a fading Dingle waving, as he tended his herbal and vegetable patch


    43. Nathaniel felt himself fading


    44. If not, it was obvious to him that their fading shields of blue were no match for their enemy’s perpetual inferno


    45. acutely aware that hope was fading fast


    46. Nerissa still held the robe against her body, but her blush was fading now


    47. I feared that it had only been a product of my fading psyche, after all


    48. It seemed Adros was in the midst of testing that theory, for Brontes felt the waves of mental pain fading


    49. Late afternoon was slipping into early evening and he noted the slowly fading sun, partially obscured by gathering clouds


    50. But despite his plea for help to the goddess of Heaven, Xonia’s life was slowly fading














































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    Synonyms for "fade"

    disappearance fade slice slicing languish melt blow over evanesce fleet pass pass off wither blanch pale etiolate wane decrease dwindle droop diminish taper dissolve disperse pass away evaporate vanish quiet sink

    "fade" definitions

    a golf shot that curves to the right for a right-handed golfer


    gradually ceasing to be visible


    become less clearly visible or distinguishable; disappear gradually or seemingly


    lose freshness, vigor, or vitality


    disappear gradually


    become feeble