The tugging of the slowly decelerating ship seemed less now, but the roar of noise was still all around him.
Her only chance: decelerate slowly, be ready with the Tokarev when they came.
A string of tumbling beads arched out from the airlock, trailing down as the fugueship slowly decelerated and they did not.
"Entering 2003, we expect the global default rate to remain elevated but to decelerate slowly."
Retruance's speed took him miles out over the meadows, but he allowed himself to decelerate slowly until it was safe to make a wide, gently banked curve and head back toward the Historian's camp.
One car has a tendency to slowly decelerate when you hit the clutch and it hangs - the idle control valve seems to open or electronic throttle takes over - which makes for smooth shifting.
Two and a half minutes from Litchfield, they were decelerating and swinging slowly around Snagtooth, looking down on a tilted plateau that ended on the western side in a sheer drop of almost a thousand feet.
When he plotted the ship's speed from the density of the particle trail, he saw she was decelerating slowly.
In either case, the list moves as if it is pasted on the outer surface of a wheel, slowly decelerating as if affected by friction.
It was like the huge panting power plant in the other part of the factory but, in his case, it was slowly decelerating.