The purple flowers on Giovanni's favorite plant seemed to glow in the evening's fading light.

VOA: special.2009.05.23

Sometimes they challenge and contradict one another, but they are not best seen as linear, as telling a neat, linear story about Israelite religion flowering and fading.

有时候它们相互对质或矛盾，但它们从未被当作线性结构，整洁有序的故事,关于以色列宗教的兴盛与衰落。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

"I think this president believes we can't afford not to." Hopes for a bipartisan compromise on health care appear to be fading.

VOA: standard.2009.09.04

But,in the meantime, people are beginning to drift back into Port-au-Prince, amid concerns that the opportunity to rebuild a less crowded capital and boost the rural economy may be fading.

VOA: standard.2010.07.16

On a hillside along a busy road just south of Guatemala's capital, Aura Elena stands in the fading sunlight after another day peaking over the shoulders of a team of forensic anthropologists and workmen.

VOA: standard.2009.12.18

I think as the series goes on he accepts more and more that he is part of the contemporary world and I think all the things that were deemed to be flaws before start fading away.

VOA: standard.2010.07.07