She stayed still until the noise subsided and then rose to her knees.
We tried our hardest to hear more, but the noise subsided.
"I like this," he said, when the noise had subsided.
But when the noise and light subsided, it was time to go home, which for us of course meant separate homes.
He said the noise eventually subsided, "and we are just about back to normal."
He followed Harley through a door into another room of the plant, and the noise subsided a bit.
As the light of day slowly strengthened, so the noises subsided.
But when these were spent, the noise had not subsided.
She heard the sound of a chair being pushed back, then a few seconds later the noise subsided.
Finally, the noise subsided, and they could talk again.