Sentence examples for peter out as from inspiring English sources

The track itself takes half of its duration to drop a beat, and then it's all glitchy low-end warbles and stillbirthed hooks that peter out as soon as they grab you.

Political parties peter out, as the Whigs and Know-Nothings attest.

In all but one of its seven largest members, average annual income per person in the sending countries was less than half that of the host country.Migrant flows peter out as incomes in sending and host country converge.

The woman who asks another, "If they've lied about this, what else are they lying about?" The various conversations peter out as the open-mic session gets under way.

Review after review singled Peter out - as a great swordsman in Cyrano de Bergerac (1945) opposite Ralph Richardson, or as the comic Ananias in the Old Vic's The Alchemist (1947), years later at the Duke of York Theatre in Tom Stoppard's Artist Descending a Staircase (1980), or for his Teiresias in Katie Mitchell's Royal Shakespeare Company production of The Phoenician Women (1995).

However, like many gyms and fitness classes that typically see their numbers of attendees peter out as the year progresses, Weight Watchers cautioned in its filing that the "seasonal nature" of its business could cause its results to fluctuate.

61 mins: Johansson strides through the middle to initiate a rare Aalborg counter-attack... which peters out as soon as they get into the City half.

The sitcom laugh track is petering out, as are the kinds of tent-pole dramas and news coverage that gave networks their brand identity.

This game is petering out as far as Spurs are concerned.

The Occupy Wall Street movement, leaderless and without clear aims, is petering out as quickly as it sprang up and seems destined to have scant impact on the politics of 2012.

The marriage survived, the affair petered out, as affairs do.