Whatever he had done had at least slowed their descent.

He brought up the nose a few degrees and slowed the shuttle's descent.

The pilot managed to slow his descent, but still hit the ground hard.

He tried to slow his descent, but the slime was too thick.

He squeezed hard, slowing his descent, and stepped onto the ship.

And it wasn't likely to get any better when the captain tried to slow the missile's descent.

The dragon used what was left of his ability to fly to slow their rapid descent.

He slowed their descent to ten feet per second and rotated them once around.

With no good news on inflation to slow its descent, the stock market dropped sharply.

She could not effect a means of slowing her descent should the cloak suddenly lose its effectiveness.