Sentence examples for has petered out from inspiring English sources

She does feel that the black comedy boom of the 1980s has petered out, though.

Even when a marriage has petered out gradually, it still takes time to recover, she says.

The unrest, which has petered out, also enabled the chancellor to show his steadfast face; it did no harm when he was pelted with eggs.

As with all run-on sentences, it's barely possible, once this has petered out, to remember what, if anything, was said.

Which is why what we may ultimately end up with, when all the political peacocking has petered out, is not so much an outright repeal but a rebranding.

"The rally has petered out," one trader remarked, noting that the volume of bonds sched uled for sale over the next 30 days exceeded $1‐billion.

Several rallies have petered out already.

"The numbers have petered out," says one official.

The demands have petered out since the end of the Hosni Mubarak era in 2011.

The unrest might have petered out but for an unexplained escalation.

A half-dozen times such ventures have petered out, often collapsing from his own inattention.