How to Use slowdown in a Sentence

slowdown

noun

• The business had a slowdown after the holidays.
• That slowdown hasn’t meant much in the rental market, though.
  — Rachel Siegel, Washington Post, 12 Apr. 2023
• Surging rates have been the main cause of the sharp slowdown in the housing market.
  — Ben Eisen, WSJ, 5 Oct. 2023
• The performance marked a slowdown from healthy GDP gains of 3.2% in the third quarter and 2.6% the final three months of the year.
  — Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 27 Apr. 2023
• One reason for the fundraising slowdown was the lack of mergers last year.
  — Luisa Beltran, Fortune, 27 Feb. 2024
• At least the Times and Reuters aren’t affected by the current slowdown.
  — Simon Hurtz, The Verge, 15 Sep. 2023
• The luxury slowdown has hurt Kering in the past few months.
  — Prarthana Prakash, Fortune Europe, 5 Apr. 2024
• The slowdown would smooth out the city’s annual pension payments over the next two decades.
  — David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Sep. 2023
• The data marked a slowdown from 2.6% growth in the previous quarter.
  — Max Zahn, ABC News, 3 May 2023
• Biotech execs worry this could lead to a slowdown in new medicines within the next few years if things don’t turn around soon.
  — Jonathan Wosen, STAT, 22 Nov. 2023
• The slowdown has not so far improved U.S. adults' feelings about the economy.
  — Compiled Bydemocrat-Gazette Stafffrom Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 28 Nov. 2023
• Despite the slowdown in monthly growth, the size of Texas’ labor force and the number of people employed in the state still broke records last month, the TWC said.
  — Mitchell Parton, Dallas News, 21 Apr. 2023
• The economy could still be in for a big slowdown as the full impact of the Fed’s higher borrowing costs is felt.
  — Ben Casselman, New York Times, 3 Aug. 2023
• The overall effect will be a slowdown in the rate that people will demand rooftop solar.
  — Julie Cart, The Mercury News, 26 Jan. 2024
• Gas prices reflect the steady rise in oil costs since June and a slowdown at refineries as record heat bakes portions of the nation.
  — Medora Lee, USA TODAY, 19 Aug. 2023
• The bloc’s return to modest growth coincides with a first-quarter pickup in China and a slowdown in the U.S.
  — Paul Hannon, wsj.com, 28 Apr. 2023
• Driven by wage slowdowns in their day jobs, other members of Gen Z have turned to the gig economy to make ends meet.
  — Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 7 Feb. 2024
• The luxury slowdown has been widely discussed, and many examples of the trend have emerged.
  — Prarthana Prakash, Fortune Europe, 20 Mar. 2024
• Despite a slowdown in building starts this year, the Dallas area leads the country in construction jobs added.
  — Steve Brown, Dallas News, 5 July 2023
• The slowdown that the tech industry faces today is unlike any other.
  — Rahil Shah, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2024
• China’s economic slowdown has become a big problem for banks that serve the rich.
  — Elaine Yu, WSJ, 18 Dec. 2023
• Much of the economic slowdown is expected to reverse course this year and into 2025.
  — Paolo Confino, Fortune, 20 Feb. 2024
• But the head of the city’s exchange believes that Hong Kong’s relationship with China—often blamed for the slowdown—will be what returns it to growth.
  — Lionel Lim, Fortune Asia, 27 Mar. 2024
• The slowdown has real consequences not just for companies but for the climate.
  — Evan Halper, Washington Post, 7 Mar. 2024
• However, there has been a slowdown in attacks in recent days.
  — Michael Dorgan, Fox News, 2 Mar. 2024
• The slowdown in sales is also hurting the leading maker of electric models in the United States, Tesla.
  — Neal E. Boudette, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2024
• Reuters cited a source as blaming the shortfall on a funding squeeze due to a broader dealmaking slowdown.
  — Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Apr. 2023
• Ford’s electric vehicles aren’t doing too bad despite a lot of gloom in the industry over a slowdown in EV sales growth.
  — Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 3 Apr. 2024
• A lot of it has to do with a troublesome slowdown in productivity.
  — Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 14 June 2023
• Over time, a backup in the supply of such components would trigger a slowdown in production.
  — Max Zahn, ABC News, 14 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 7 May 2024