How to Use flatline in a Sentence

flatline

verb

• On a monthly basis, costs edged down 0.1% after flatlining in the previous month.
  — Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 31 July 2024
• After mostly trending up for years, workplace engagement has flatlined.
  — Jessica Dickler, CNBC, 3 Sep. 2024
• Whelan flatlined, and Reyes had to break the news to Jet and the rest of the team.
  — Christy Piña, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Jan. 2024
• Their stock prices had more or less flatlined for at least a decade.
  — Bygeoff Colvin, Fortune, 20 Apr. 2024
• But that progress stalled as cases have flatlined and even ticked up in some countries in the past few years.
  — Shannon Osaka, BostonGlobe.com, 1 July 2023
• Over the last year, borrowing costs rose and rents flatlined.
  — Alena Botros, Fortune, 30 Dec. 2023
• In the end, the Knicks snatched all momentum in the final frame while Brooklyn once again flatlined at both ends of the court down the stretch.
  — C.j. Holmes, New York Daily News, 23 Mar. 2024
• If, on the other hand, an art expert declares the Bacon to be a forgery, the stock price will flatline.
  — Samanth Subramanian, Quartz, 23 June 2023
• Food prices flatlined in March after rising 8.5% over the past year.
  — Bob Fernandez, WSJ, 18 Apr. 2023
• If the large ships’ calls aren’t reduced, that growth will flatline or even decline, the coalition warns.
  — Erica E. Phillips, WSJ, 19 Dec. 2018
• Economic growth in the countries that use the euro flatlined in the final three months of 2022.
  — Julia Horowitz, CNN, 14 Apr. 2023
• And that’s the exact moment when Katherine flatlines and dies.
  — Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 27 June 2024
• Average house prices, then, look set to flatline this year.
  — Samuel Tombs, WSJ, 7 Mar. 2018
• Indeed, Zandi is predicting the year-over-year rate of home price growth will flatline to 0% by this time next year.
  — Fortune, 13 June 2022
• And all this musical angst, rendered in what often feel like the same endless vamps, soon starts to flatline.
  — Ben Brantley, New York Times, 7 Nov. 2019
• Democrats couldn’t have predicted many of the crises that have caused the Biden presidency to flatline since late August of last year.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 14 June 2022
• Home prices flatline, reach new high But even with the increase in supply, don’t expect a drop-off in the stratospherically high price of homes.
  — Nick Rosenberger, Idaho Statesman, 17 June 2024
• Advanced economies could flatline their emissions tomorrow and all would still be lost.
  — David Roberts, Vox, 11 July 2019
• The number of biomedical postdocs, which had risen for decades, has flatlined and now has begun to decline.
  — Jonathan Wosen, STAT, 6 June 2023
• Through his medical ups and downs, Denny finally was next in line for a heart; however, the donor flatlined.
  — Christina Dugan Ramirez, Peoplemag, 30 May 2024
• On a monthly basis, costs edged down 0.1% after flatlining the previous month.
  — Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 11 July 2024
• Tesla hasn’t launched a new vehicle since the Model Y in 2020, and orders for its older models have flatlined.
  — Simon Willis, Fortune, 27 July 2023
• Bank of America, for one, is now predicting stocks will largely flatline through next year.
  — Anne Sraders, Fortune, 8 Sep. 2021
• Wages flatlined and consumer debt soared, as credit cards became an increasingly easy way to pay for things.
  — Mya Frazier, New York Times, 7 June 2023
• The producer-price index rose 0.3% in July after flatlining the prior month.
  — Eric Wallerstein, WSJ, 11 Aug. 2023
• Other third-party data suggests that Lyft’s growth rate will flatline compared to Uber.
  — Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 18 Sep. 2018
• But even at a rate of 1 million new arrivals a year, U.S. population growth would flatline in about 40 years and then slowly begin to decline, the census says.
  — David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 19 Jan. 2024
• But the most likely scenario in my mind remains that prices essentially just flatline here for the next two, three years as the market adjusts to these higher mortgage rates.
  — Anne Sraders, Fortune, 14 July 2022
• The inning would flatline in the next moments when Cuthbert bobbled a grounder at third base and threw wildly to first, allowing another run to score and everybody to be safe.
  — Rustin Dodd, kansascity.com, 25 June 2017
• So the possibility that his Open career might flatline with last year’s mundane T-52 at Pebble Beach seems a cruel jest.
  — Eamon Lynch, Golfweek, 9 Feb. 2020

Last Updated: 23 Oct 2024