How to Use downsize in a Sentence

downsize

verb

• They have downsized the car's engine in the new model.
• The company will be downsized next year.
• The company is planning to downsize next year.
• Age is the reason for the sale (his, not the car's) plus the need to downsize the collection.
  — Josh Max, Forbes, 27 Oct. 2021
• If costs stay high, even top-end chains may be forced to downsize.
  — Michelle Jamrisko, Bloomberg.com, 19 May 2023
• The shapes have downsized from the #PutaBibonIt statement necklaces of the past to the daintier pendants of the present.
  — Halie Lesavage, Harper's BAZAAR, 30 Mar. 2023
• The couple decide to downsize but don’t want to sell their home.
  — Susan Coll, Washington Post, 7 Mar. 2023
• For one cotton farmer in Texas, the answer might be to downsize.
  — Emily Baron Cadloff, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Aug. 2022
• The immediate plan was to downsize, but rents are too high in the city.
  — Michelle Aslam, Dallas News, 13 July 2023
• Don’t be afraid of downsizing your home if the numbers work.
  — Scott Burns, Dallas News, 14 Mar. 2023
• Williams loses his job, he and his four kids are forced to downsize and move in to his Aunt Jo's house.
  — Alesandra Dubin, Good Housekeeping, 14 Aug. 2022
• The cuts make Sega the latest video game company to downsize its staff in 2024.
  — Jennifer Maas, Variety, 28 Mar. 2024
• Can this pad their bottom lines and halt the downsizing in 2020?
  — Fortune Staff, Fortune, 2 Dec. 2019
• The third time — along with a Saturday evening time slot and a downsizing to around three hours — was the charm.
  — Edward Segarra, USA TODAY, 7 Oct. 2024
• Rolls-Royce does not downsize to avoid some piddling tax, thank you very much.
  — Patrick Bedard, Car and Driver, 23 Sep. 2020
• The blue line is the pepper price per ounce of products, like McCormick's, that chose to downsize.
  — Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 18 Apr. 2022
• But those on the lower end are having to cut their budgets and downsize their plans.
  — Abha Bhattarai, Washington Post, 10 Mar. 2024
• Your friends will be jealous of your courage to downsize or live the life of your dreams while making a rental income on the side.
  — Christina Shepherd McGuire, Southern Living, 11 Sep. 2024
• But the opponent will have plenty of say in regard to whether the Heat might downsize.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 27 Apr. 2022
• Ready to downsize from your single-family home and ditch all the yard work that comes with it?
  — Kim Palmer, Star Tribune, 4 Sep. 2020
• Businesses were forced to downsize or, at worst, to fold.
  — Steve Brozak, Forbes, 8 Nov. 2021
• Some would need to downsize their homes or move in with relatives.
  — Caroline Glenn, orlandosentinel.com, 13 Oct. 2021
• The whole point of the downsizing strategy was to make IBM more profitable, not less.
  — Aaron Pressman, Fortune, 31 Jan. 2020
• Now that the Williamses three kids are grown, Marsha is selling and downsizing.
  — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 27 Oct. 2023
• Citi isn’t the first foreign bank to exit or downsize in India.
  — Prathamesh Mulye, Quartz, 15 Apr. 2021
• Now that their only daughter has grown up and moved out, the Greens are selling the home in an effort to downsize.
  — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 15 Jan. 2022
• The jokes about a dearth of wings and overabundance of 7-footers in a league that continues to downsize.
  — Chris Fedor, cleveland, 28 Sep. 2021
• Their children were grown and left the nest and Laurie and Ryan Reber were looking to downsize.
  — Georgann Yara, azcentral, 23 Jan. 2020
• At the time, the retailer downsized its footprint and invested in e-commerce.
  — Sharon Edelson, Forbes, 6 Mar. 2025
• Charlie Trevor of University of Wisconsin found that downsizing a workforce by even 1% leads to a 31% increase in voluntary turnover the next year.
  — Phil Blair, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Mar. 2025