How to Use downtick in a Sentence

downtick

noun

• The levels for the southern system saw a tiny downtick in the most recent day’s data.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 5 Aug. 2021
• That’s a downtick — although within the poll’s margin of error — from a 43 percent to 51 percent split in May.
  — NBC News, 3 June 2020
• Despite the overall downtick of homicides, Anchorage had the same number of fatal shootings by police in 2020 as the year before.
  — Tess Williams, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Jan. 2021
• Perhaps July's downtick in inflation and the drop in gas prices will register before the midterm elections, or perhaps not.
  — Drew Westen, CNN, 11 Aug. 2022
• Another helpful element for Tech on Monday might have been a slight downtick in the 10-year Treasury yield (see chart below).
  — Jj Kinahan, Forbes, 25 May 2021
• After a brief downtick at the beginning of shelter-in-place orders physical abuse and the severity of domestic abuse injuries have increased.
  — Lauren Krouse, SELF, 2 Sep. 2020
• With the downtick in new cases, the Gophers returned to light acclimatization workouts Wednesday and continued them Thursday.
  — Megan Ryan, Star Tribune, 3 Dec. 2020
• Bird surveys have repeatedly shown a mysterious trend of a population downtick in areas of cicada emergence.
  — Madeline Bodin, Discover Magazine, 18 June 2013
• Africa’s elephant population is in need of critical support now more than ever in the wake of the coronavirus, where a downtick in tourism and travel has left elephants and their natural habitats increasingly vulnerable to exploitation.
  — Rachel Besser, Vogue, 17 Aug. 2020

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024