How to Use ease up on in a Sentence

ease up on

phrasal verb

• Also, the movie knows when to ease up on the wisenheimer instinct.
  — Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 15 Sep. 2023
• He’s had a lot to learn, and not just about easing up on the burgers and steaming his vocal cords.
  — Michael Paulson, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2023
• But the winds began easing up on Wednesday and Thursday.
  — Alec Luhn, WIRED, 10 Jan. 2025
• He’s also promised to drill for more oil, ease up on Bitcoin, rein in regulations, and bring down grocery prices.
  — Peter Green, Quartz, 10 Nov. 2024
• Then the show was sold to Gannett, another conservative outfit that, Dominick says, told him to ease up on the sleaze.
  — Harrison Smith, Washington Post, 27 Apr. 2023
• So don’t be tempted to ease up on your water conserving practices.
  — Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 June 2023
• But even if the federal government eases up on EV mandates, many states will not.
  — Detroit Free Press, 15 Feb. 2024
• Take a walk, read a book, admire the flowers in your neighborhood — whatever encourages you to ease up on the gas pedal and press on the brakes for a second.
  — Tarot.com, New York Daily News, 12 July 2024
• That’s why many people and, most recently, those working in health care, have decided to ease up on wearing masks.
  — Christina Hall, Detroit Free Press, 27 Apr. 2023
• The tipping slowdown comes even as restaurants ease up on hiking menu prices and lean into discounts to keep luring guests to tables and drive-thrus.
  — J.j. McCorvey, NBC News, 10 Dec. 2024
• But the power companies averted the worst effects by persuading their customers to ease up on the juice in the late afternoon and evening, when demand strained the grid.
  — Jon Healey, Los Angeles Times, 7 Aug. 2023
• The regime wanted to reduce the political salience of the veil by easing up on enforcement; needless to say, the reverse has occurred.
  — Mohammad Ayatollahi Tabaar, Foreign Affairs, 12 Oct. 2022
• Since the pandemic, about a quarter of its restaurants have not returned to those around-the-clock hours, so Denny’s is easing up on the requirement for a franchise to do so.
  — Jordan Valinsky, CNN, 22 Oct. 2024
• Don’t expect Phoenix to ease up on selling its risky oil bonds to retirement minded investors anytime soon.
  — Brandon Kochkodin, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2024
• The big picture: The fact that P&G has eased up on price hikes is another sign that consumer goods inflation is coming under control.
  — Nathan Bomey, Axios, 22 Jan. 2025
• China and Russia both eased up on their sanctions enforcement.
  — Sue Mi Terry, Foreign Affairs, 24 Aug. 2021
• Agreed: zoning and federal lands Among the few things the two candidates do agree on: easing up on zoning laws and using federal lands to build homes.
  — Alex Veiga, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2024
• The Fed won’t ease up on interest rates until demand for workers returns to more normal levels — or Uncle Sam fails to pay its bills for the first time in history.
  — Larry Edelman, BostonGlobe.com, 15 May 2023
• Residents were urged to ease up on afternoon or late evening exercise, encouraged to drink plenty of water, and to advised to stay in shady or cool places.
  — Rick Hurd, The Mercury News, 11 June 2024
• But the standards were developed in concert with the automakers, not in opposition to them, and, if anything, the Biden administration eased up on the standards in the first few years.
  — Todd Spangler, Detroit Free Press, 8 Oct. 2024
• The lagging upkeep is a lingering side effect as the city has eased up on the budget cutbacks ordered by Mayor Mike Johnston earlier this year.
  — Joe Rubino, The Denver Post, 30 May 2024
• Thankfully, Netflix appears to be easing up on its split-in-half seasonal idea as all episodes of Virgin River season 6 are live now.
  — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 21 Dec. 2024
• Even though employees are staying put, that doesn’t mean companies should ease up on their retention efforts.
  — Paolo Confino, Fortune, 1 June 2023
• Local candidates stopped short of trafficking in tales of pets on a spit in Springfield, but no one else seems inclined to ease up on the post-election angertainment, from Washington on down.
  — Pat Beall, Sun Sentinel, 8 Nov. 2024
• Even so, June's cooling inflation suggests that the Fed could ease up on interest rate hikes after July, some economists said.
  — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 12 July 2023
• If this means easing up on some of the specific restrictions, that’s something the Legislature should consider.
  — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 19 Mar. 2024
• As a result, some countries like Portugal have eased up on their visa programs as the economic growth isn’t evenly dispersed to the local community.
  — Chloe Berger, Fortune, 16 Apr. 2024
• But also there’s no reason these spinoffs can’t ease up on the physical activity of their predecessors.
  — Marah Eakin, Vulture, 17 Sep. 2024
• Seeing Cousins in this way could influence viewers to become fans, make casual NFL fans root for him more, or even help diehard fans ease up on their criticisms of him when the next football season begins.
  — Safid Deen, USA TODAY, 14 July 2023
• Some of her colleagues agreed that speeding drivers were a problem, and Jennifer Mendoza asked if staffers could explore designing a new sidewalk slated for the site in a way that would encourage people to ease up on the gas pedal.
  — Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 May 2023