Slacken in a sentence as a verb

I suppose... the fire would have to be pretty intense at that point to soften steel enough to slacken though.

"I am willing to bet that Gitlab is now a company that will never slacken off their backup checking in the future.

We slacken off the circulation when they're right way up, so that they're half starved, and double the flow of surrogate when they're upside down.

I got a rapid lesson in how changing the length of the seat stay to slacken the head tube angle leads to a reduced bottom bracket height.

Texas would still need battery storage and natural gas-fired power plants to fill in gaps when, for example, winds might slacken earlier than expected.

But living so long without the severe negative environmental impacts leads us to slacken our resolve, because it's easy to think we got to this point for free.

> 1 To sleep in all day and leave work earlyNo, that doesn't work - all the time - but occasionally, you get to work really really hard and then you can slacken off for a bit, take it easy.

When forced to write a complicated piece of code with a bunch of strange people breathing down my neck and watching every step I take, my productivity tends to slacken off when I hit a coders equivalent of writer’s block.

I can't find the quote right now but I think it was Sagan who said that part of what makes exploration so captivating is that it is dangerous, maybe we shouldn't make safety the number one priority because it might slacken our awe.

I would slacken the app store approval process for web apps to encourage development on that platform, and I'd make sure that licensing were such that developers could sell an iPhone web app while having the same javascript on their full website.

When I was tempted to slacken for my university exams, when I was tempted to lower my ambitions and stay in an unskilled job, when I was tempted to take an employer's low ball salary offer based on my living expenses, I remember what my grandmother had gone through, to put me here.

It's difficult to see how such coercion could be so extraordinarily successful as to reduce the average fitness penalty to something so tiny that homosexuality could still exist at current frequencies like 5%; it'd be like you'd have to have such pervasive and super-effective coercion that not a single gay man out of 100 fails to reach his quota, and this would have to obtain in all societies forever, effectively, or else eventually the coercion would slacken and the homosexuality genes would almost immediately vanish, permanently.

Slacken definitions

verb

become slow or slower; "Production slowed"

See also: slow slack

verb

make less active or fast; "He slackened his pace as he got tired"; "Don't relax your efforts now"

See also: slack relax

verb

become looser or slack; "the rope slackened"

verb

make slack as by lessening tension or firmness

See also: remit