As we gathered speed, the line of restaurant lights along the quay receded.

The line of the shore receded from them, dipping westward, and closed with them again gradually as they slid past.

The lines of parked cars recede, and the block has the sense of a room rather than the bottom of a canyon.

Everything about J seemed ordered and disciplined, even the lines in his face and the iron-gray hair receding from his high forehead.

The line of shadow had receded into the distance.

While taking care never to cross the line, they ignore anything short of crossing it, and they don't notice that the line is gradually receding.

"So I think whatever line there once was is receding very quickly."

With each postponement, the line receded.

And when she looked ahead, the lines receded to the horizon, as far as she could see undisturbed in their precision.

This "line of paleontological frustration," as he called it, later receded to about 2 billion years ago, and had now receded still further.