How to Use drawdown in a Sentence

drawdown

1 of 2 noun

• The drawdown is equal to about one-third of that total.
  — Valerie Pavilonis, USA TODAY, 8 Apr. 2022
• Biden, calling the war in Afghanistan unwinnable, set a new deadline of Sept. 11, with the drawdown to begin May 1.
  — Tracy Wilkinson Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 19 Aug. 2021
• For this reason, the Corps did propose deep and sustained drawdowns at Cougar and Fall Creek dams.
  — Tony Schick, ProPublica, 31 Oct. 2023
• Gasoline prices did fall in the weeks after the oil was released, though prices have since eclipsed the levels at the time when Biden announced the drawdown.
  — Josh Boak, chicagotribune.com, 16 Feb. 2022
• The Afghan drawdown is front and center right now, but no one knows how this chapter will end, or what the next chapter will be about.
  — Brian Stelter, CNN, 19 Aug. 2021
• That was the third-biggest drawdown since the program began in 2014, Wind data shows.
  — Rebecca Feng, WSJ, 31 Mar. 2022
• That was slightly lower than the 112.5 billion yuan drawdown in March.
  — Rebecca Feng, WSJ, 18 May 2022
• The most recent presidential drawdown was the 43rd since the beginning of the war.
  — Artur Galocha, Washington Post, 4 Aug. 2023
• Mull said residents there want salmon to thrive and have adapted to the temporary drawdowns the judge ordered in 2021.
  — Tony Schick, ProPublica, 31 Oct. 2023
• The technical definition of a bear market in stocks is a drawdown of 20% or worse from peak to trough.
  — Ben Carlson, Fortune, 14 July 2022
• Gasoline prices have dropped since the reserve drawdown was announced.
  — Julia Horowitz, CNN, 7 Apr. 2022
• The sales were the single largest drawdown in the history of the reserve, sending levels plummeting to a 40-year low.
  — Breanne Deppisch, Washington Examiner, 11 May 2023
• The drawdown forced Cubans to apply for visas from the American embassy in Guyana, a trip too expensive for many.
  — New York Times, 3 May 2022
• The other three dams are set to be dismantled next year, starting with a drawdown of the reservoirs in January.
  — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2023
• At some point in the coming days, the military’s focus will shift from evacuations to the drawdown.
  — New York Times, 24 Aug. 2021
• The rise in credit card and auto loan debt has been accompanied by a drawdown in savings.
  — Allison Morrow, CNN, 23 Aug. 2023
• The apparent drawdown of Russian troops around Kyiv is leaving a trail of destruction in its wake.
  — Washington Post, 25 Mar. 2022
• Amid the drawdown, Wood has stuck to her strategy of doubling down on losers and offloading winners.
  — Katie Greifeld, Fortune, 14 Sep. 2022
• That results in carbon drawdown, which means carbon dioxide is captured from the atmosphere and locked in the soil.
  — Jeryl Brunner, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2022
• Those shares have outperformed the broader S&P 500 since the benchmark’s drawdown from its recent high in mid-August.
  — Hannah Miao, WSJ, 28 Sep. 2022
• One bit of good news for many analysts and portfolio managers: The recent drawdown has helped stocks look less pricey.
  — Karen Langley, WSJ, 10 Oct. 2021
• This could mean a likely drawdown of rice buffers and higher local rice prices in the coming months, according to Mr. Kaul.
  — Vibhuti Agarwal, WSJ, 9 Sep. 2022
• Bartell says the drawdown will threaten his field of shoulder-high wild rye that taps into the groundwater and sustains his cattle through the late summer and fall.
  — Daniel Moore, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Sep. 2022
• The group has raised several concerns about the Hermosa Project, including the drawdown of the aquifer and the treated wastewater that could flow into Harshaw Creek.
  — Ian James, The Arizona Republic, 5 Feb. 2022
• The Biden administration has been bringing tens of thousands of Afghan nationals into the country in the wake of the U.S. drawdown.
  — Adam Shaw, Fox News, 21 Oct. 2021
• Before the latest drawdown, more than 230 million barrels of crude oil had been released since the reserve’s creation.
  — Scott L. Montgomery, The Conversation, 24 Nov. 2021
• And because the market has yet to pull back from its record recovery run, others may be preparing for at least one drawdown before the year’s end.
  — Q.ai - Make Genius Money Moves, Forbes, 8 Sep. 2021
• In June 2011, the White House released the details of the drawdown in Afghanistan that the president had previously outlined would begin that summer.
  — David Petraeus, The Atlantic, 8 Aug. 2022
• What will be in the drawdown package for Taiwan and its estimated delivery date are not yet clear.
  — Eleanor Watson, CBS News, 28 July 2023
• Thanks to a record-breaking winter, those drawdowns have stopped and Flaming Gorge has largely recovered.
  — Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 22 July 2023

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draw down

2 of 2 verb

• I drew down my bank account just paying for tuition.
• No one expects to have to draw down on the reserves from the past.
  — Scott Boeck, USA TODAY, 12 June 2020
• But as the cold sets in, countries will start to draw down their stocks.
  — Loveday Morris and Evan Halper, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Oct. 2022
• Then comes the time to start drawing down those savings.
  — Michelle Singletary, Washington Post, 25 Aug. 2023
• The couple began to draw down on savings to pay their rent and bills.
  — Eliza Fawcett, courant.com, 1 Nov. 2020
• The two badass guys are facing off in the town square and going to draw down on each other.
  — Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Apr. 2022
• When the going gets tough, Bud can draw down on a mean streak a mile wide to push him across the finish line.
  — Manouk Akopyan, Los Angeles Times, 29 July 2023
• By narrowing the strike, the union can draw down the fund over a longer period of time.
  — Max Zahn, ABC News, 29 Sep. 2023
• As the afternoon drew down, the four of us talked about AI, music, art, motherhood, and Mr. Musk.
  — WIRED, 8 Aug. 2023
• When the border committee finished its work, the county line was drawn down the center of the valley.
  — Susanne Rust, Los Angeles Times, 20 Mar. 2023
• All that leads to a complicated picture as to what role China should play in the world’s fight to draw down emissions.
  — Time, 20 July 2023
• In an effort to draw down carbon at a meaningful scale, people are looking to the ground.
  — WIRED, 25 Oct. 2022
• Crews will start at Iron Gate and work their way upriver to draw down the remaining reservoirs and then remove the three dams.
  — Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 17 Jan. 2024
• Russia has not made any new pledges to draw down climate pollution this decade.
  — New York Times, 1 Nov. 2021
• The film served as a perfect primer on what would happen should the world’s nuclear powers draw down on each other and shoot.
  — al, 8 Mar. 2022
• Early this year, companies drew down their stocks, posing a big drag on growth.
  — Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 27 July 2023
• Some governments will draw down the portcullis or build up the border wall—islands of reaction.
  — James Robins, The New Republic, 23 Sep. 2020
• Consumers as a whole should be able to draw down this excess savings well past the holiday season.
  — Andrew Duguay, Forbes, 15 Nov. 2021
• Democrats also agreed to draw down at least another $12.2 billion from the rainy day fund to cover their spending.
  — Taryn Luna, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2024
• Much of the cost of deploying carbon capture is the investment in the equipment to draw down the carbon dioxide, Deich said.
  — Drew Costley, Fortune, 17 May 2023
• That left the bank and its competitors with a potential problem: If customers kept drawing down their accounts, the bank may run out of cash to pay them.
  — David Goldman, CNN, 3 May 2023
• The small scale means the initial shipments leaving the world’s breadbasket will not draw down food prices or ease a global food crisis anytime soon.
  — The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Aug. 2022
• The small scale means the initial shipments leaving the world's breadbasket will not draw down food prices or ease a global food crisis anytime soon.
  — Aya Batrawy, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Aug. 2022
• Water is being released at nearly 260 cubic feet per second to draw down the reservoir below the crack.
  — CBS News, 11 Apr. 2024
• Some experts estimate, for example, that a land mass the size of India would be needed to grow trees or crops to draw down carbon at the necessary scale.
  — Cynthia Scharf, Fortune, 5 Nov. 2022
• Microsoft, for one, pledged in 2020 to eventually draw down all of its historic emissions.
  — Justine Calma, The Verge, 13 Jan. 2023
• Google’s growth will draw down water storage throughout the area as climate change alters weather patterns.
  — oregonlive, 17 Dec. 2022
• The news release did not disclose what bureau or office the email account belonged to or how it could be used to draw down substantial sums of money from city coffers.
  — oregonlive, 27 May 2022
• At any rate, as the trust fund surplus is getting drawn down to support the wave of retiring baby boomers, the issue is losing relevancy.
  — Russ Wiles, The Arizona Republic, 16 July 2023
• Over time, the worms and other soil creatures draw down the organic matter, and their tunnels aerate the soil (along with the regular subterranean forking).
  — Adrian Higgins, Washington Post, 14 July 2021

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024