How to Use slowdown in a Sentence

slowdown

noun

• The business had a slowdown after the holidays.
• That slowdown hasn’t meant much in the rental market, though.
  — Rachel Siegel, Washington Post, 12 Apr. 2023
• Surging rates have been the main cause of the sharp slowdown in the housing market.
  — Ben Eisen, WSJ, 5 Oct. 2023
• The performance marked a slowdown from healthy GDP gains of 3.2% in the third quarter and 2.6% the final three months of the year.
  — Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 27 Apr. 2023
• One reason for the fundraising slowdown was the lack of mergers last year.
  — Luisa Beltran, Fortune, 27 Feb. 2024
• At least the Times and Reuters aren’t affected by the current slowdown.
  — Simon Hurtz, The Verge, 15 Sep. 2023
• The luxury slowdown has hurt Kering in the past few months.
  — Prarthana Prakash, Fortune Europe, 5 Apr. 2024
• The prices increases last month marked a slowdown from the 3.3% rate recorded in May.
  — Max Zahn, ABC News, 11 July 2024
• The slowdown did not originate with the work stoppages of 2023.
  — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 21 May 2024
• Beyond the layoffs, Best Buy has been pulling back across the board in response to sales slowdowns.
  — Wes Davis, The Verge, 11 June 2024
• The trend continues a slowdown that has been a couple years in the making.
  — Melvin Backman, Quartz, 16 Aug. 2024
• The slowdown would smooth out the city’s annual pension payments over the next two decades.
  — David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Sep. 2023
• In recent months, the economy has shown signs of a slowdown.
  — Max Zahn, ABC News, 15 May 2024
• The data marked a slowdown from 2.6% growth in the previous quarter.
  — Max Zahn, ABC News, 3 May 2023
• More drivers will also need to switch to EVs and reverse the recent slowdown in sales.
  — Josh Boak, Fortune, 26 May 2024
• At the end of 2023, the economy appeared to be headed for a benign slowdown.
  — Jeanna Smialek, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2024
• Biotech execs worry this could lead to a slowdown in new medicines within the next few years if things don’t turn around soon.
  — Jonathan Wosen, STAT, 22 Nov. 2023
• The slowdown has not so far improved U.S. adults' feelings about the economy.
  — Compiled Bydemocrat-Gazette Stafffrom Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 28 Nov. 2023
• Despite the slowdown in monthly growth, the size of Texas’ labor force and the number of people employed in the state still broke records last month, the TWC said.
  — Mitchell Parton, Dallas News, 21 Apr. 2023
• After the Fourth holidays are over, don’t expect much of a slowdown the rest of July.
  — Vinod Sreeharsha, Miami Herald, 28 June 2024
• The economy could still be in for a big slowdown as the full impact of the Fed’s higher borrowing costs is felt.
  — Ben Casselman, New York Times, 3 Aug. 2023
• The overall effect will be a slowdown in the rate that people will demand rooftop solar.
  — Julie Cart, The Mercury News, 26 Jan. 2024
• Gas prices reflect the steady rise in oil costs since June and a slowdown at refineries as record heat bakes portions of the nation.
  — Medora Lee, USA TODAY, 19 Aug. 2023
• The hope on Wall Street is actually for a slowdown in the U.S. economy’s growth.
  — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 20 June 2024
• There are also reasons to believe a slowdown is far off.
  — Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN, 9 Apr. 2024
• The bloc’s return to modest growth coincides with a first-quarter pickup in China and a slowdown in the U.S.
  — Paul Hannon, wsj.com, 28 Apr. 2023
• Driven by wage slowdowns in their day jobs, other members of Gen Z have turned to the gig economy to make ends meet.
  — Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 7 Feb. 2024
• The luxury slowdown has been widely discussed, and many examples of the trend have emerged.
  — Prarthana Prakash, Fortune Europe, 20 Mar. 2024
• The question is whether the slowdown in the economy’s growth will overshoot and become a recession.
  — Stan Choe, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2024
• But even so, a looming U.S. economic slowdown is possible.
  — Morgan Haefner, Quartz, 15 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Sep 2024