How to Use decelerate in a Sentence

decelerate

verb

• The thinking goes that if photons can be used to push a spacecraft from behind, they can also be used to slow down an incoming probe—just as wind can both accelerate and decelerate a sailboat.
  — National Geographic, 1 Feb. 2017
• If China decelerates markedly, Chinese companies and consumers buy less in goods and services from other countries.
  — Peter Eavis and Paul Mozur, New York Times, 4 Jan. 2016
• However, as economic growth decelerates, even a minor adverse event could potentially trigger a downturn.
  — Orphe Divounguy | The Center Square Contributor, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 9 Sep. 2024
• Lugers decelerate on a long straightaway at the end of the course.
  — Connor Grossman, SI.com, 4 Dec. 2017
• 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
• The pace of formal job creation has decelerated over the past year.
  — The Economist, 7 Nov. 2019
• 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
• Best Buy, whose shares had risen 11% since the start of the year, reported decelerating growth in online sales.
  — Elizabeth Winkler, WSJ, 25 May 2018
• 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
• At that point, the snowplow, as shown on the video, crashed into the side of the pickup, spinning it parallel to the guardrail, and then kept right on going while decelerating.
  — Bill Laytner, Detroit Free Press, 15 Feb. 2024
• 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
• Price growth decelerated slightly from the 2.5 percent year-over-year gain in April.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 31 July 2019
• 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
• Because your brakes will have to work harder to decelerate that tire, your brakes will become weaker.
  — Wes Siler, Outside Online, 16 June 2017
• 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
• The big picture: At large, U.S. fund fee declines are decelerating, according to research firm Morningstar's annual study, in part, because there's not much left to cut.
  — Crystal Kim, Axios, 10 July 2024

Last Updated: 11 Nov 2024