How to Use downsize in a Sentence

downsize

verb

• They have downsized the car's engine in the new model.
• The company will be downsized next year.
• The company is planning to downsize next year.
• Age is the reason for the sale (his, not the car's) plus the need to downsize the collection.
  — Josh Max, Forbes, 27 Oct. 2021
• If costs stay high, even top-end chains may be forced to downsize.
  — Michelle Jamrisko, Bloomberg.com, 19 May 2023
• The shapes have downsized from the #PutaBibonIt statement necklaces of the past to the daintier pendants of the present.
  — Halie Lesavage, Harper's BAZAAR, 30 Mar. 2023
• The couple decide to downsize but don’t want to sell their home.
  — Susan Coll, Washington Post, 7 Mar. 2023
• For one cotton farmer in Texas, the answer might be to downsize.
  — Emily Baron Cadloff, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Aug. 2022
• The immediate plan was to downsize, but rents are too high in the city.
  — Michelle Aslam, Dallas News, 13 July 2023
• Don’t be afraid of downsizing your home if the numbers work.
  — Scott Burns, Dallas News, 14 Mar. 2023
• Williams loses his job, he and his four kids are forced to downsize and move in to his Aunt Jo's house.
  — Alesandra Dubin, Good Housekeeping, 14 Aug. 2022
• The cuts make Sega the latest video game company to downsize its staff in 2024.
  — Jennifer Maas, Variety, 28 Mar. 2024
• The third time — along with a Saturday evening time slot and a downsizing to around three hours — was the charm.
  — Edward Segarra, USA TODAY, 7 Oct. 2024
• The blue line is the pepper price per ounce of products, like McCormick's, that chose to downsize.
  — Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 18 Apr. 2022
• But those on the lower end are having to cut their budgets and downsize their plans.
  — Abha Bhattarai, Washington Post, 10 Mar. 2024
• Your friends will be jealous of your courage to downsize or live the life of your dreams while making a rental income on the side.
  — Christina Shepherd McGuire, Southern Living, 11 Sep. 2024
• But the opponent will have plenty of say in regard to whether the Heat might downsize.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 27 Apr. 2022
• Businesses were forced to downsize or, at worst, to fold.
  — Steve Brozak, Forbes, 8 Nov. 2021
• Some would need to downsize their homes or move in with relatives.
  — Caroline Glenn, orlandosentinel.com, 13 Oct. 2021
• Now that the Williamses three kids are grown, Marsha is selling and downsizing.
  — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 27 Oct. 2023
• Citi isn’t the first foreign bank to exit or downsize in India.
  — Prathamesh Mulye, Quartz, 15 Apr. 2021
• Now that their only daughter has grown up and moved out, the Greens are selling the home in an effort to downsize.
  — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 15 Jan. 2022
• The jokes about a dearth of wings and overabundance of 7-footers in a league that continues to downsize.
  — Chris Fedor, cleveland, 28 Sep. 2021
• Lamar also owns a seven-bedroom spread in Bel-Air and may not want to downsize.
  — Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 29 Aug. 2023
• The budget cuts typically scale with the need to downsize the Army to its pre-war levels.
  — Vikram Mittal, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2021
• The property’s listing agent told the Globe in 2019 that the Ortizes wanted to downsize.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 31 Mar. 2021
• Then her mom downsized to a condo and arrived up for a visit with all three of Crapps' dresses in the back seat.
  — Detroit Free Press, 30 Apr. 2023
• Now, a mere three years later, the center is being downsized.
  — Stephanie Saul, New York Times, 23 Sep. 2023
• Tiny homes can be a good option for people who are looking to downsize or for those who want a relatively affordable way to own property.
  — Lauren Taylor, Southern Living, 27 Nov. 2024
• The keycaps are large with generous spacing, and none of the keys has been downsized to make room for additions such as the Microsoft Copilot button or the PredatorSense and media keys running down the right side of the keyboard.
  — PCMAG, 27 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Dec 2024