How to Use decelerate in a Sentence
decelerate
verb-
Lyles peaked slightly later than the pair and held form for longer, slower to decelerate.
— Liam Tharme, The Athletic, 5 Aug. 2024 -
If bolted onto the right side of a bike, the sidecar will brake and decelerate in right-hand turns and accelerate in left-hand turns.
— New Atlas, 4 Oct. 2024 -
Yet, without an influx of younger workers into the United States, employment growth may continue to decelerate.
— Orphe Divounguy | The Center Square Contributor, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 9 Sep. 2024 -
Lugers decelerate on a long straightaway at the end of the course.
— Connor Grossman, SI.com, 4 Dec. 2017 -
In the past four years, Dutch forests have shrunk, and the planting of new trees has decelerated.
— Kate Brown, Washington Post, 26 June 2023 -
If the birds’ skulls absorbed shock, the brain would decelerate slower than the beak.
— Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 July 2022 -
But with that extreme force, he’s got to be able to decelerate.
— Christian Red, Forbes, 30 May 2021 -
Back in December, Zillow forecasted that the 12-month rate of home price growth would decelerate to 11% by the end of the year.
— Fortune, 17 Feb. 2022 -
The pace of formal job creation has decelerated over the past year.
— The Economist, 7 Nov. 2019 -
Growth in retail spending decelerated to 8% over a year earlier, down from 8.2% in the first nine months of the year.
— Joe McDonald, USA TODAY, 17 Jan. 2020 -
Duplay and co are quick to point out that the spacecraft also has to decelerate on reaching the Red Planet.
— The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 24 Feb. 2022 -
Best Buy, whose shares had risen 11% since the start of the year, reported decelerating growth in online sales.
— Elizabeth Winkler, WSJ, 25 May 2018 -
But generally the only way to decelerate the froth and pull prices back down in line in any market is to stop feeding the bull.
— Peter Lane Taylor, Forbes, 28 May 2021 -
Is a very nuanced route runner with the ability to change speeds in and out of his breaks. Able to decelerate on comeback routes.
— Tim Bielik, cleveland, 16 Dec. 2019 -
The Fed will want to cool down the inflationary cycle if wage growth doesn’t decelerate.
— Paolo Confino, Fortune, 6 Sep. 2022 -
Over the coming year, CoreLogic predicts that home prices are set to decelerate to a 5% rate of growth.
— Lance Lambert, Fortune, 21 Apr. 2022 -
The pop mélange builds to a lope then decelerates for the chorus, all while retaining enormous swagger.
— Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY, 12 May 2023 -
But this year’s revenue guidance is for that growth to decelerate meaningfully to the low-to-mid-20% range.
— Laura Forman, WSJ, 10 Feb. 2022 -
At that point, the snowplow, as shown on the video, crashed into the side of the pickup, spinning it parallel to the guardrail, and then kept right on going while decelerating.
— Bill Laytner, Detroit Free Press, 15 Feb. 2024 -
Year-over-year home-price growth has slowed from the record pace of more than 20% reached in March, and economists expect price growth to continue to decelerate this year.
— Nicole Friedman, WSJ, 25 Oct. 2022 -
Price growth decelerated slightly from the 2.5 percent year-over-year gain in April.
— BostonGlobe.com, 31 July 2019 -
Storm up on traffic and the Hyundai decelerates more aggressively to match their pace.
— IEEE Spectrum, 22 Apr. 2023 -
Home-price growth decelerated in 2022 after a rapid rise in mortgage rates priced many buyers out of the market.
— Nicole Friedman, WSJ, 28 Feb. 2023 -
In South Africa, the pulse of house music was transformed—and, often, decelerated.
— Kelefa Sanneh, The New Yorker, 14 July 2023 -
Because your brakes will have to work harder to decelerate that tire, your brakes will become weaker.
— Wes Siler, Outside Online, 16 June 2017 -
Wages continue to decelerate as well, even as the US added half a million jobs in January.
— Scott Nover, Quartz, 7 Feb. 2023 -
The probe had to rely on parachutes, retrorockets and its blunt shape to decelerate and touch down on the planet, China’s space agency said.
— Natasha Khan, WSJ, 15 May 2021 -
At best, Smoke said, real GDP growth could sharply decelerate to at most 1% on an annualized based in the fourth quarter.
— Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 28 Oct. 2020 -
If the skull really was absorbing shocks, then upon each peck, the brain should decelerate far less than the beak—just as when a car hits a bump, its body jerks less than its wheels do.
— Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 14 July 2022 -
Heck, just lifting off the gas allows the vehicle to decelerate.
— Bob Weber, chicagotribune.com, 25 Nov. 2017
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