How to Use plateau in a Sentence

plateau

1 of 2 noun

• The price of gas seems to have reached a plateau.
• That was the first time Duchene had hit the 40-goal plateau.
  — Sportsday Staff, Dallas News, 8 July 2023
• That season marked the end of five straight in which Rask hit the 30-win plateau.
  — Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Feb. 2023
• The first, is to attempt to combat a weight loss plateau.
  — Cori Ritchey, Men's Health, 30 Jan. 2023
• The main house, a long, low-slung black fortress clad in wood and glass, hunkers down on a windswept plateau.
  — Mark David, Robb Report, 3 Feb. 2024
• DeBrusk has now hit the 20-goal plateau three times in his career.
  — Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Mar. 2023
• Andermatt sits on a high plateau at the heart of the Alps, the Rhône starting from one end and the Rhine from the other.
  — Tom Robbins, Travel + Leisure, 25 June 2023
• There was a belief that even cricket had hit a plateau.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 29 Sep. 2023
• But the 100-point plateau is still in play and would be a tremendous benchmark for Robertson.
  — Peter Warren, Dallas News, 27 Mar. 2023
• Up on the plateau overlooking the village, the school and churches are blown to splinters.
  — Jason Motlagh, Rolling Stone, 16 Apr. 2023
• One recent morning, garbage trucks roared up the hill to a plateau made of tons of trash and dirt piled dozens of feet high.
  — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 19 June 2023
• The walk up to the plateau, Grosman pointed out, was barely 600 yards, but the villagers stayed at the bottom of the slope.
  — Matti Friedman, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 June 2023
• Abu Dhabi, where IHC shares have reached a plateau after a steep ascent.
  — Eliot Brown, WSJ, 18 July 2023
• Labyrinths of caves, ravines and canyons with waterfalls and fast-flowing rivers dot the vast karst limestone plateau at the feet of the hills.
  — Silvia Marchetti, CNN, 18 Jan. 2023
• Hikers will reach a plateau a little after the 2-mile mark.
  — Maura Fox, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Mar. 2024
• The Deccan Traps form a huge, rugged plateau in Western India.
  — David Bressan, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
• Four years ago, Jenny Yang reached a plateau in her career.
  — Seija Rankin, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Jan. 2024
• Smith is the sixth Division I basketball coach to reach the 700-win plateau and does so in the shortest time.
  — Los Angeles Times, 9 Jan. 2023
• Back when the salmon were still running up Kettle Falls, the sound of dozens of drum circles would have thundered across the plateau.
  — Tony Schick, ProPublica, 4 Aug. 2022
• The massive outing that is in its second year has passed the $550 million plateau and they’re not done yet.
  — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 20 July 2023
• But the drop to that next plateau at receiver isn’t as dramatic as it’s been in past years.
  — David Moore, Dallas News, 21 Apr. 2023
• His favorite part of the wilderness had been a two-day hike from his shack — a plateau with steep ravines and a waterfall.
  — Alex Traub, BostonGlobe.com, 10 June 2023
• An American flag is planted on the plateau, its fabric torn as if to make a point.
  — Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 10 Nov. 2022
• Apartment rents in Manhattan are soaring to new highs this year, even as rents plateau or fall in most of the rest of the country.
  — Will Parker, wsj.com, 25 Apr. 2023
• The story begins more than 5,000 years ago, in the thriving city of Susa, on the fringe of the great Mesopotamian plain and the edge of the vast Iranian plateau that rises to the east.
  — Andrew Lawler, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Aug. 2022
• After this, rates tend to plateau until drivers reach their 50s or 60s.
  — Steven Glass, Car and Driver, 13 July 2023
• Egypt recently finished a highway across the plateau of the Great Pyramids.
  — Whitney Leaming, Washington Post, 9 Dec. 2022
• New Mexico State and Missouri both need a pair of wins to reach the six-win plateau and qualify for a bowl game.
  — Creg Stephenson | [e-mail], al, 19 Nov. 2022
• Mornings and early evenings were for exploring the plateau.
  — Henry Wismayer, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Aug. 2022
• Mix up your routine One of the most common reasons for hitting a plateau is sticking with the same workout for too long.
  — Dana Santas, CNN, 8 Mar. 2024

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plateau

2 of 2 verb

• Sales of computers have plateaued in recent years.
• As the road begins to plateau and bend to the left, find a wide dirt trail on the right.
  — Charles Fleming, latimes.com, 8 June 2018
• Job gains have cooled off, and wage growth seems to have plateaued.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 9 Oct. 2019
• On and off over 10 weeks, until the end of April, the markets fell, plateaued and fell again.
  — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 22 Jan. 2020
• But in much of the rest of the country, cases have either plateaued or are still rising.
  — Sara Chodosh, Popular Science, 18 May 2020
• But her numbers have since plateaued, placing her in fourth place in most polls.
  — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 9 Sep. 2019
• As April wears on, case counts suggest that the pandemic is plateauing in parts of the U.S.
  — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 29 Apr. 2020
• By the end of February, the number of cases began to plateau.
  — Molly Beck, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 Mar. 2020
• That’s because your body won’t be forced to adapt further, and your fitness and weight will plateau.
  — Lauren Bedosky, SELF, 16 Dec. 2017
• Oil production in the Gulf of Mexico, Hess said, may start to plateau in 2020.
  — Collin Eaton, Houston Chronicle, 6 Mar. 2018
• But with his support seeming to have plateaued, Buttigieg may be looking to shake things up.
  — Mike Hofman, Fortune, 15 Oct. 2019
• However, the oil and gas drilling rig counts in the U.S. plateaued in August and have fallen ever since.
  — Jordan Blum, Houston Chronicle, 25 Oct. 2017
• As consumers have run out of reasons to upgrade to a new phone each year, sales of Apple's iPhone have plateaued.
  — Xavier Harding, Fortune, 6 Aug. 2019
• As sales plateaued in the middle of the decade, Hasbro tried to add life to the franchise by giving Joe an adversary.
  — Maude Campbell, Popular Mechanics, 9 Apr. 2019
• As ride-hail growth has plateaued in recent years, the food venture has grown like a prize-winning pumpkin.
  — Wired, 28 Oct. 2019
• High-speed rail projects have plateaued in many nations as governments balk at their high costs.
  — Wired, 24 Sep. 2019
• College hockey has been a prime talent source for women's Olympic teams but its growth seems to have plateaued.
  — Helene Elliott, latimes.com, 25 Feb. 2018
• But since 2017, mobile’s share of traffic has slowed or plateaued in nearly every region of the world.
  — Dan Kopf, Quartz, 20 Dec. 2019
• Although their recent Premier League form seems to have plateaued, with the Terriers not picking up a win in the league in four games.
  — SI.com, 12 Jan. 2018
• Over time a patient's weight loss can plateau, but doctors can go back and re-tighten the stomach--leading to more pounds shed.
  — John Torres, NBC News, 5 June 2017
• At the same time, population growth among white women has plateaued.
  — Jeremy W. Peters, New York Times, 1 Nov. 2016
• In 2018 that contribution ebbed, as stocks plateaued and then in recent weeks dropped.
  — Greg Ip, WSJ, 31 Oct. 2018
• So our relationship plateaued because neither one of us was ready to take that leap and face the struggle.
  — Lisa Fogarty, Redbook, 30 Mar. 2017
• Demand for cars is either plateauing or slowing, while Brexit and the trade war loom.
  — Washington Post, 21 May 2019
• To back up: Autism rates have risen sharply over the past several decades (though are possibly plateauing).
  — Laura Sanders, Washington Post, 26 Feb. 2018
• The trend may plateau as housing prices return to normal after the Great Recession.
  — Lisa Ward, WSJ, 27 Mar. 2017
• Coal use in China, meanwhile, won't plateau until 2022.
  — Josh Siegel, Washington Examiner, 20 Feb. 2020
• But lately, Warren’s support has plateaued as Buttigieg has vaulted among the front-runners.
  — Sara Burnett and Will Weissert, SFChronicle.com, 4 Jan. 2020
• But though their peers’ abilities plateaued, Mitchell and Paschall blossomed into two of New York’s top recruits.
  — Connor Letourneau, SFChronicle.com, 11 Nov. 2019
• County officials expect numbers to increase even though cases in the county may have plateaued, County Judge Jay Knight said.
  — David Taylor, Houston Chronicle, 3 May 2020

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