How to Use downshift in a Sentence

downshift

verb

• You can downshift to slow the car down.
• Also, there are signs that inflation is poised to downshift in the second half of the year.
  — Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 27 July 2022
• The gearbox is quicker to downshift in Drive and holds onto gears longer.
  — Mike Duff, Car and Driver, 19 Aug. 2022
• Wilson doesn’t see any sign that the North Texas home market will downshift.
  — Steve Brown, Dallas News, 7 May 2021
• The gearbox is easy to downshift quickly on a mountain pass or while bouncing along a dirt road.
  — Elana Scherr, Car and Driver, 2 Aug. 2021
• Left in Drive, the eight-speed short shifts into second gear at around 5900 revs and is slow to respond to downshift requests.
  — Scott Oldham, Car and Driver, 25 Sep. 2020
• There are no turbochargers to spool, no transmissions to downshift, no sweet spot in the powerband to reach.
  — Bradley Iger, Ars Technica, 17 Aug. 2022
• The thinking was that such a slowdown would let the Fed downshift the size of its rate hikes through the end of this year and then potentially hold steady through early 2023.
  — Time, 13 Sep. 2022
• This style has become more of a necessity to unwind and downshift from the hectic flow of life here.
  — Joan Morris, The Mercury News, 2 July 2019
• An outdoor television can help him downshift from work to play mode.
  — Jamie Gold, Forbes, 15 June 2021
• After his run with luxe Huntsville restaurants, Erick is ready to downshift to simpler fare for The Standard.
  — Matt Wake | [e-mail], al, 22 Sep. 2021
• The phones will downshift to Verizon’s 4G network when 5G isn’t available.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 19 Nov. 2019
• Caregivers — many of whom are women — tend to downshift their careers or leave the workforce entirely to take care of loved ones.
  — Polina Pompliano, Fortune, 10 Aug. 2023
• Drivers need to downshift for maximum power, but the torque of second and third gears can be swallowed by hills.
  — Scott Sturgis, Philly.com, 28 July 2017
• Making whiskey has forced Ms. Milam to downshift from the fast pace of the entertainment business.
  — Michael Hoinski, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2018
• Oh, and the chef whose mind never seems to downshift is considering a new dessert for the barbecue restaurant.
  — Greg Morago, Houston Chronicle, 12 June 2018
• There's numbness in the steering, but the gearbox is clever enough to downshift under braking and upshift at redline.
  — Tony Quiroga, Car and Driver, 7 Feb. 2022
• The thinking was that a slowdown in inflation would let the Fed downshift the size of its rate hikes through the end of this year and then potentially hold steady through early 2023.
  — CBS News, 13 Sep. 2022
• Also, hiring has been expected to downshift now that the U.S. has recouped all 22 million jobs lost in the health crisis.
  — Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 5 Aug. 2022
• Others say big businesses will eke out modest gains, but all agree that growth has downshifted sharply from a year ago.
  — CBS News, 11 July 2019
• Wells Fargo expects growth to downshift in the current quarter before the economy contracts in the second half of the year and in early 2024.
  — Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 27 Apr. 2023
• The economy is still stuck in a lackluster pace, and its growth downshifted to 1.4 percent in the first three months of the year from 2.1 percent in last year’s final quarter.
  — Stan Choe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 30 June 2017
• Though the book opens with a bloody foot landing in a passenger’s lap, Newman knows when to downshift to let in some compassion, a resource sorely needed in the air and on the ground.
  — Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2021
• The buzzy and peaky four-cylinder isn't a good match for the eight-speed automatic transmission, which is reluctant to downshift.
  — Joey Capparella, Car and Driver, 4 Aug. 2023
• Your mojo could downshift into slow motion for the rest of the year (perhaps tempering the sizzle of Scorpio season a bit).
  — The Astrotwins, ELLE, 30 Nov. 2022
• Second, the economy appears to be downshifting to a slower rate of growth, which could lead to choppy reports.
  — Sharon Nunn, WSJ, 15 Feb. 2019
• The company has already recalled 1.5 million of the trucks due to a transmission flaw that could cause the vehicles to downshift to first gear with no warning.
  — Chris Morris, Fortune, 2 Jan. 2019
• That means drivers have to downshift twice at the end of the front stretch and once at the end of the back stretch, which could make for a long day in temperatures expected to hit 90 degrees Fahrenheit (32 Celsius).
  — Dave Skretta, ajc, 4 June 2022
• Those sectors also drove job growth late last year, sparking forecasts of a labor market that would downshift dramatically in coming months.
  — Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 5 Apr. 2024
• Stack draws on an element of Monty Python-ish good humor (Simon is, unsurprisingly, a big fan of their comedy) but is able to downshift into brawler mode at any moment.
  — Vulture, 29 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 14 Dec 2024