The events of yesterday - indeed, of this morning - suddenly receded into a past so remote that they seemed scarcely to have lived in it.

As if drawn by some magnetic power, she suddenly receded from him, and went on to the stage.

Kyle nodded triumphantly and smiled, his anger suddenly receding as quickly as it had come.

Mosovich drew a deep breath as the smart-plastic suddenly receded into the couch.

Vendes pushed powerfully against her, slipping free, then Catti-brie was scrambling, trying to catch up to the suddenly receding legs.

And then they suddenly receded into darkness as McGuire increased speed and we moved out to sea.

Dimly Saul heard the voices from the stairwell approach the window, but they suddenly receded as he felt himself moving again.

The problem of Danielle and her false name suddenly receded in importance.

The Earthman bent and picked it up as the droning suddenly receded from Damon's head.

In some cases a few minutes' warning can be gained when the water along the shore suddenly recedes, in a phenomenon called 'drawback'.