A pause during which things are calm or activities are diminished.
1 She played and played and played that first year, almost without letup .
2 In the main corridor there was no letup in the foot traffic.
3 It just keeps coming and coming and coming, there's never a letup .
4 This storm had raged without letup for half the season, it seemed.
5 What does come through is a visceral horror described without letup or dramatic relief.
6 There wasn't a moment's letup in the noise-shouts ,conversations ,andalways that muttering undertone.
7 Letters seen by the Guardian show no letup in the jockeying over the last month.
8 Sixteen inches already, and no sign of a letup .
9 One, two, three, four, and there was no letup .
10 The firing on the house continued without letup , as it had since seven o'clock that morning.
11 Danny glanced at the radar - no letup in sight.
12 There was no letup along the defense perimeter.
13 Numbers of returnees have been steadily rising over the past two years, with no letup in sight.
14 The Taoiseach, Mr Ahern, has pledged there will be no letup in the search for the bodies.
15 The faint crackling continues without letup .
16 March and no sign of letup .
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