It crept ever nearer as the fog of drugs receded.

Within seconds a hot fire coursed through Kirk's veins; the creeping fog of unconsciousness receded.

The men were slowing, too, a gradual fog of fatigue settling on them as the adrenaline of flight and conflict receded.

The ice cracked, the fog receded.

He felt the breeze that wafted past the stone house, noted that the fog had receded.

Commander Lund disappeared before his eyes and when the dark fog receded he was standing in an unfamiliar room.

Just as swiftly, he felt the fog of fury recede.

The fog in Julien's brain receded to reveal raw nerves that began to nag at him and then to scream.

The fog of habitations and farms receded into blue dimness, behind lattices of white cloud.

The fog surrounding us neither advanced nor receded, nor did the water we sailed ever change.