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Snow White’s opening weekend box office projections have been on a downslide for the past month.—Tim Lammers, Forbes, 24 Mar. 2025 Data released by the NBS on Friday showed new home prices in China remained unchanged between November and December 2024—putting a stop to a downslide that has been going on since June 2023.—Justin Gest, Newsweek, 20 Jan. 2025 Careers go up and down, and mine was on a bit of a downslide at that point.—Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 22 July 2024 This time, the downslide affected more than just the big tech names as nine out of 10 Dow categories and 10 out of 11 S&P 500 sectors saw losses.—Michele Luhn, CNBC, 19 July 2024 See All Example Sentences for downslide
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