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Definition of the day : « peter out »

  • verb dwindle, decrease
Example sentences :
  • I should be sorry to see the poem "peter out," or "soak in."
  • Extract from : « The Letters of Ambrose Bierce » by Ambrose Bierce
  • She's a rich one, and bein' so rich at the start she'll peter out fast, I take it.
  • Extract from : « Overland Red » by Henry Herbert Knibbs
  • "Going to peter out I reckon," Abe answered with a sorrowful look.
  • Extract from : « A Man for the Ages » by Irving Bacheller
  • Even rejoicings can get overfed and peter out into ginger tea.
  • Extract from : « Rose of Old Harpeth » by Maria Thompson Daviess
  • They might, indeed, "peter out" as the expression is, but it did not seem likely.
  • Extract from : « Do and Dare » by Horatio Alger, Jr.
  • I suspicioned he'd peter out when Pap Spooner died, but he fooled us the worst kind.
  • Extract from : « Bunch Grass » by Horace Annesley Vachell
  • I wouldn't be a whole lot surprised if they give us an awful fight before they peter out.
  • Extract from : « Hopalong Cassidy » by Clarence E. Mulford
  • Before Christmas, though, she began to peter out 'n' git slack-twisted.
  • Extract from : « The Village Watch-Tower » by (AKA Kate Douglas Riggs) Kate Douglas Wiggin
  • Then all I hope is the storm will peter out before dawn, so we can start for the river right away.
  • Extract from : « The Pioneer Boys of the Columbia » by Harrison Adams
  • You've had water three times to our once, and yet you go to work and peter out with Chuckwalla Tanks only five miles away.
  • Extract from : « The Long Chance » by Peter B. Kyne