How to Use peter out in a Sentence

peter out

phrasal verb

• But the scent peters out atop a tower of rock in the creek bed.
  — Bill Heavey, Field & Stream, 1 Feb. 2024
• And when the wind doesn’t blow, production from wind farms peters out.
  — Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Jan. 2024
• And when the wind doesn’t blow, production from wind farms peters out.
  — Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Mar. 2024
• After all, how many romance flicks peter out by the 75-minute mark?
  — James Mercadante, Ilana Gordon, Stephanie Kaloi, EW.com, 25 July 2024
• That gives me so much joy, because nobody wants their songs to just peter out.
  — Stephen Daw, Billboard, 3 Sep. 2019
• The great highway that begins in South Carolina and peters out 1,539 miles later in West Texas is about to become even greater.
  — Dave Lieber, Dallas News, 28 Apr. 2023
• But the script’s halfhearted suggestions that race or religion may have been factors in Reena’s killings peter out the same way everything else about the show does, with a timid shrug.
  — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Apr. 2024
• Deploying the brain’s natural dampers should—and apparently does—cause these waves to peter out.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 29 May 2015
• Below the surface of the ocean, the invisible waterfalls near Iceland and Greenland would peter out.
  — Sandra Upson, WIRED, 25 July 2024
• Some investors say the economy’s strength could start to peter out as the Fed continues to raise interest rates and consumers spend savings accrued during the height of the pandemic.
  — Krystal Hur, CNN, 13 July 2023
• Even so, some forecasters predict that consumer spending could peter out later next year.
  — Elizabeth Napolitano, CBS News, 26 Dec. 2023
• The gold in the ground was already beginning to peter out when the orange fruit rose on the Pacific horizon — a gleaming, glowing citrus sun, a stand-in for the sun itself on fruit crate labels, tourist guides, postcards.
  — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 22 Sep. 2024
• Yet growth will slow by roughly 50% next year to 1.1 million barrels a day as that rebound peters out, and consumers turn to more efficient or electric vehicles.
  — Grant Smith, Fortune Europe, 14 Dec. 2023
• Real life is mostly made up of loose ends, murky motivations, shades of gray and stories that move in fits and starts and peter out without a satisfying resolution.
  — Charles Seife, Scientific American, 2 Aug. 2023
• But still, some residents cling to the safety of the familiar even as the explosions get closer and louder, and municipal services like trash collection peter out.
  — Dominique Soguel, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Sep. 2024
• Cutler’s film begins to peter out in its final moments (the forging of Stewart’s highly unexpected bond with Snoop Dogg could foster its own film), but the trip there is certainly fascinating.
  — Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 31 Aug. 2024
• But interstate wars that have reached this level of intensity do not tend to simply peter out without negotiations.
  — Samuel Charap, Foreign Affairs, 5 June 2023
• The impact of additional savings on permanent growth rates peters out in a way that, under Professor Solow’s assumption, the impacts of population and technical knowledge do not.
  — Michael M. Weinstein, New York Times, 22 Dec. 2023
• Although skies can look downright apocalyptic during this time, as the smoke peters out in April, a must-experience cultural festival happens throughout Thailand: Songkran, a.k.a.
  — Katie Lockhart, Robb Report, 9 May 2024
• As federal relief funds peter out, governments face difficult questions about how to maintain competitive pay.
  — Lydia Depillis, New York Times, 27 July 2023
• Instead of letting that relationship peter out, re-create regular interaction with a former colleague to help ensure the relationship lasts.
  — Aliza Knox, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2024
• One hypothesis suggested that the foxes interbred with dogs that European colonizers introduced to South America, and that interbreeding eventually caused the foxes’ lineage to peter out.
  — Mindy Weisberger, CNN, 11 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 3 Jan 2025