Sentence examples for it will peter out from inspiring English sources

A band of rain and snow will slowly move its way southwards but it will peter out as it reaches central parts".

It's a chain reaction, and someone else will do it, but then eventually it will peter out".

"These products have been selling well and there is still money to be made in low-carb, but I think it will peter out pretty quickly.

Consumer spending in the economy has picked up in recent months, but analysts worry that it will peter out if the gap between pay rises and inflation continues to erode disposable incomes – a trend underlined by the latest data.

That's still a relatively low fall, especially in the fourth weekend, but it's a lot more than the 9% drop last weekend, and if we assume it falls by an additional 10-20 pointstage points in each successive week it will peter out before it gets to $600m.

"It will peter out, it won't vanish.

"We have to know more," he said, like whether it "will continue, or will peter out, or will reverse".

It could be that the process will peter out on its own as massive accumulation of capital eventually pushes down the rate of return.

It then runs this information along with other meteorological data on temperature, pressure and wind speed through supercomputers to predict whether a storm will peter out as it hits land or wreak even greater havoc.

The present Brooklyn brouhaha, a pathetic reprise of a sorry affair, is this time a media-generated tempest that will peter out quickly, if it hasn't already.

At current decay rates the business will peter out in another couple of years, but for now it's an important way for AOL to finance growth (more on that in a post later today).