How to Use peter out in a Sentence

peter out

phrasal verb

• But the scent peters out atop a tower of rock in the creek bed.
  — Bill Heavey, Field & Stream, 1 Feb. 2024
• And when the wind doesn’t blow, production from wind farms peters out.
  — Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Jan. 2024
• And when the wind doesn’t blow, production from wind farms peters out.
  — Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Mar. 2024
• That gives me so much joy, because nobody wants their songs to just peter out.
  — Stephen Daw, Billboard, 3 Sep. 2019
• The great highway that begins in South Carolina and peters out 1,539 miles later in West Texas is about to become even greater.
  — Dave Lieber, Dallas News, 28 Apr. 2023
• But the script’s halfhearted suggestions that race or religion may have been factors in Reena’s killings peter out the same way everything else about the show does, with a timid shrug.
  — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Apr. 2024
• Deploying the brain’s natural dampers should—and apparently does—cause these waves to peter out.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 29 May 2015
• Some investors say the economy’s strength could start to peter out as the Fed continues to raise interest rates and consumers spend savings accrued during the height of the pandemic.
  — Krystal Hur, CNN, 13 July 2023
• Even so, some forecasters predict that consumer spending could peter out later next year.
  — Elizabeth Napolitano, CBS News, 26 Dec. 2023
• Yet growth will slow by roughly 50% next year to 1.1 million barrels a day as that rebound peters out, and consumers turn to more efficient or electric vehicles.
  — Grant Smith, Fortune Europe, 14 Dec. 2023
• Real life is mostly made up of loose ends, murky motivations, shades of gray and stories that move in fits and starts and peter out without a satisfying resolution.
  — Charles Seife, Scientific American, 2 Aug. 2023
• But interstate wars that have reached this level of intensity do not tend to simply peter out without negotiations.
  — Samuel Charap, Foreign Affairs, 5 June 2023
• The impact of additional savings on permanent growth rates peters out in a way that, under Professor Solow’s assumption, the impacts of population and technical knowledge do not.
  — Michael M. Weinstein, New York Times, 22 Dec. 2023
• Although skies can look downright apocalyptic during this time, as the smoke peters out in April, a must-experience cultural festival happens throughout Thailand: Songkran, a.k.a.
  — Katie Lockhart, Robb Report, 9 May 2024
• As federal relief funds peter out, governments face difficult questions about how to maintain competitive pay.
  — Lydia Depillis, New York Times, 27 July 2023
• Instead of letting that relationship peter out, re-create regular interaction with a former colleague to help ensure the relationship lasts.
  — Aliza Knox, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2024
• One hypothesis suggested that the foxes interbred with dogs that European colonizers introduced to South America, and that interbreeding eventually caused the foxes’ lineage to peter out.
  — Mindy Weisberger, CNN, 11 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 10 Nov 2024