How to Use flatline in a Sentence

flatline

verb

• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• In December, with the pandemic surging, many economists figured GDP would flatline or even dip early in the year.
  — Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 23 Feb. 2021
• The long-term viability of a social-media app is dependent on its ability to bring in new users, and TikTok’s growth has flatlined.
  — Kate Lindsay, The Atlantic, 13 Mar. 2024
• The fact that shares have flatlined as the broader Nasdaq market has increased substantially this year could also have spurred interest.
  — Chris Morris, Fortune, 28 Aug. 2023
• Despite the oil boom, poverty is deepening for some as the cost of living soars, with goods such as sugar, oranges, cooking oil, peppers, and plantains more than doubling in price while salaries have flatlined.
  — Dánica Coto, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 May 2023
• The number of people being vaccinated against the disease flatlined.
  — Liam Stack, New York Times, 29 May 2023
• As the federal minimum flatlined, however, the Fight for $15 campaign was succeeding at the state and local levels.
  — Lydia Depillis, New York Times, 23 Aug. 2023
• Enrollment levels in the last three years have generally flatlined.
  — Jessika Harkay, Hartford Courant, 8 Jan. 2024
• Berman said campaigns typically flatline in the middle.
  — Cheryl V. Jackson, chicagotribune.com, 7 Sep. 2017

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024