Tapered used in a sentence

Tapered in a sentence as an adjective

Your Joey Roth print there would look better with a tapered frame.

It's a box with rounded corners and tapered edges.

The first 6 months were almost full time while I developed the app but the hours tapered off once I released the app.

Not sure if development has tapered but it seemed a pretty robust community for a while

Especially if it means the ad farms are tapered down to something less egregious than the examples given in OP's article.

Picked up a long term contract a couple of years ago, started out with 20-30 hours/week and has tapered off a bit as they transitioned from bootstrapped to venture funded and hiring full time devs.

Agreed; my initial interpretation was thinking of the tapered edges as comet tails or motion blur, which is the opposite direction to what they want to depict.

Issues are obviously much more complex than just 'make 1000 USD more to feel a lot happier', but I'd be surprised if the study would find a real plateau after 75K, rather than a tapered off increase per dollar amount.

Yes, but sadly one particular very large Korean manufacturer whose name begins with an S thinks that the "proper" orientation of a micro USB port places the narrow/tapered side "up" instead of "down".

Caffeine at doses that feels like it gives the same level of effects as modafinil can be nasty both in side effects and withdrawal symptoms unless you carefully manage a tapered reduction in intake.

It's a very rounded square shape with small grooves on the tapered end to give you enough purchase to grab pretty much anything while not getting in your way and being difficult to manipulate because of edges or overall slipperiness.

Back before we had fancy alloy springs and were forced to use Steel as the material for mainsprings because that's all we knew, watches had problems where a freshly wound watch would run fast and a watch that hasn't been wound for a day or so would start to run slow, as the strength of the spring tapered off. The Geneva Drive was a solution, though it's more of a hack, to only let the spring release power inside the middle of it's power arc, by preventing the watch from unwinding past a certain low point and preventing the user from winding the spring up to it's strongest point.