How to Use decelerate in a Sentence

decelerate

verb

• In the past four years, Dutch forests have shrunk, and the planting of new trees has decelerated.
  — Kate Brown, Washington Post, 26 June 2023
• If the birds’ skulls absorbed shock, the brain would decelerate slower than the beak.
  — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 July 2022
• But with that extreme force, he’s got to be able to decelerate.
  — Christian Red, Forbes, 30 May 2021
• Back in December, Zillow forecasted that the 12-month rate of home price growth would decelerate to 11% by the end of the year.
  — Fortune, 17 Feb. 2022
• Growth in retail spending decelerated to 8% over a year earlier, down from 8.2% in the first nine months of the year.
  — Joe McDonald, USA TODAY, 17 Jan. 2020
• Duplay and co are quick to point out that the spacecraft also has to decelerate on reaching the Red Planet.
  — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 24 Feb. 2022
• But generally the only way to decelerate the froth and pull prices back down in line in any market is to stop feeding the bull.
  — Peter Lane Taylor, Forbes, 28 May 2021
• Is a very nuanced route runner with the ability to change speeds in and out of his breaks. Able to decelerate on comeback routes.
  — Tim Bielik, cleveland, 16 Dec. 2019
• The Fed will want to cool down the inflationary cycle if wage growth doesn’t decelerate.
  — Paolo Confino, Fortune, 6 Sep. 2022
• Over the coming year, CoreLogic predicts that home prices are set to decelerate to a 5% rate of growth.
  — Lance Lambert, Fortune, 21 Apr. 2022
• The pop mélange builds to a lope then decelerates for the chorus, all while retaining enormous swagger.
  — Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY, 12 May 2023
• But this year’s revenue guidance is for that growth to decelerate meaningfully to the low-to-mid-20% range.
  — Laura Forman, WSJ, 10 Feb. 2022
• Year-over-year home-price growth has slowed from the record pace of more than 20% reached in March, and economists expect price growth to continue to decelerate this year.
  — Nicole Friedman, WSJ, 25 Oct. 2022
• Storm up on traffic and the Hyundai decelerates more aggressively to match their pace.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 22 Apr. 2023
• Home-price growth decelerated in 2022 after a rapid rise in mortgage rates priced many buyers out of the market.
  — Nicole Friedman, WSJ, 28 Feb. 2023
• In South Africa, the pulse of house music was transformed—and, often, decelerated.
  — Kelefa Sanneh, The New Yorker, 14 July 2023
• Wages continue to decelerate as well, even as the US added half a million jobs in January.
  — Scott Nover, Quartz, 7 Feb. 2023
• The probe had to rely on parachutes, retrorockets and its blunt shape to decelerate and touch down on the planet, China’s space agency said.
  — Natasha Khan, WSJ, 15 May 2021
• At best, Smoke said, real GDP growth could sharply decelerate to at most 1% on an annualized based in the fourth quarter.
  — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 28 Oct. 2020
• If the skull really was absorbing shocks, then upon each peck, the brain should decelerate far less than the beak—just as when a car hits a bump, its body jerks less than its wheels do.
  — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 14 July 2022
• G-forces quickly decelerate the aircraft, and at the end of the turn, the aircraft is behind the carrier, positioned to conduct a quick landing.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 1 Mar. 2023
• But Wall Street estimates show that loan growth is expected to decelerate in Q4 and into next year.
  — Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 13 Oct. 2022
• But this drift can decelerate or even reverse if the gas pressure in the disk increases locally.
  — Theo Nicitopoulos, Discover Magazine, 21 Jan. 2022
• While job growth decelerated in June, wage growth remained firm.
  — Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 10 July 2023
• Snowflake expects growth to decelerate to still-high double digit rates.
  — Peter Cohan, Forbes, 24 Sep. 2021
• The drop in bond yields is a highly visible sign that investors believe economic growth in the United States and around the world would decelerate quickly.
  — New York Times, 3 Mar. 2020
• Growth in China and India will decelerate but their economies will still manage to expand 1.2% and 1.9% respectively, the fund said.
  — Eric Martin, Fortune, 14 Apr. 2020
• Growth for the core ride-sharing business continues to decelerate steadily; the number of rides booked on the platform rose 28% year over year compared with 37% growth in last year’s fourth quarter.
  — Dan Gallagher, WSJ, 6 Feb. 2020
• The central bank has spent much of the last 18 months fighting historic levels of inflation, which has decelerated in recent months.
  — Hannah Levitt, Fortune, 21 Sep. 2023
• Those haven’t decelerated as fast as the headline number.
  — Bryan Mena, CNN, 17 July 2023

Last Updated: 28 May 2024