How to Use decelerate in a Sentence

decelerate

verb

• Lugers decelerate on a long straightaway at the end of the course.
  — Connor Grossman, SI.com, 4 Dec. 2017
• If the birds’ skulls absorbed shock, the brain would decelerate slower than the beak.
  — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 July 2022
• Lyles peaked slightly later than the pair and held form for longer, slower to decelerate.
  — Liam Tharme, The Athletic, 5 Aug. 2024
• The pace of formal job creation has decelerated over the past year.
  — The Economist, 7 Nov. 2019
• In the past four years, Dutch forests have shrunk, and the planting of new trees has decelerated.
  — Kate Brown, Washington Post, 26 June 2023
• Nvidia’s revenue growth has continued to decelerate along with its stock price.
  — Peter Cohan, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
• Because your brakes will have to work harder to decelerate that tire, your brakes will become weaker.
  — Wes Siler, Outside Online, 16 June 2017
• Bruce helped the young athlete understand his movements in a way that seemed to decelerate time.
  — Jeff Chang september 25, Literary Hub, 25 Sep. 2025
• So earnings are still growing, but at a decelerating pace.
  — Joe Weisenthal, Bloomberg, 12 Feb. 2026
• The pop mélange builds to a lope then decelerates for the chorus, all while retaining enormous swagger.
  — Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY, 12 May 2023
• Heck, just lifting off the gas allows the vehicle to decelerate.
  — Bob Weber, chicagotribune.com, 25 Nov. 2017
• Constanza plays with good balance, doesn’t get knocked off his lines and is able to decelerate in traffic to create a clean look.
  — Gary Bedore, Kansas City Star, 9 Sep. 2025
• Still, economists forecast that growth will slow in the fourth quarter and decelerate further next year.
  — Christopher Rugaber, The Seattle Times, 28 Nov. 2018
• The Fed will want to cool down the inflationary cycle if wage growth doesn’t decelerate.
  — Paolo Confino, Fortune, 6 Sep. 2022
• But generally the only way to decelerate the froth and pull prices back down in line in any market is to stop feeding the bull.
  — Peter Lane Taylor, Forbes, 28 May 2021
• Storm up on traffic and the Hyundai decelerates more aggressively to match their pace.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 22 Apr. 2023
• But this drift can decelerate or even reverse if the gas pressure in the disk increases locally.
  — Theo Nicitopoulos, Discover Magazine, 21 Jan. 2022
• If bolted onto the right side of a bike, the sidecar will brake and decelerate in right-hand turns and accelerate in left-hand turns.
  — New Atlas, 4 Oct. 2024
• If growth decelerates, the stock price could be adversely affected.
  — Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 23 Jan. 2026
• Deckers’ shares have dropped more than 55% year to date, leaving investors on edge about any signs of decelerating demand.
  — Luke Fountain, CNBC, 24 Oct. 2025
• Duplay and co are quick to point out that the spacecraft also has to decelerate on reaching the Red Planet.
  — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 24 Feb. 2022
• Tarlowe noted that traffic has decelerated while spend per trip has turned negative.
  — Lisa Kailai Han, CNBC, 7 Oct. 2025
• But this year’s revenue guidance is for that growth to decelerate meaningfully to the low-to-mid-20% range.
  — Laura Forman, WSJ, 10 Feb. 2022
• Best Buy, whose shares had risen 11% since the start of the year, reported decelerating growth in online sales.
  — Elizabeth Winkler, WSJ, 25 May 2018
• In South Africa, the pulse of house music was transformed—and, often, decelerated.
  — Kelefa Sanneh, The New Yorker, 14 July 2023
• That value is decelerating, researchers said, meaning each generation is adding less time than the last.
  — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 2 Sep. 2025
• If the skull really was absorbing shocks, then upon each peck, the brain should decelerate far less than the beak—just as when a car hits a bump, its body jerks less than its wheels do.
  — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 14 July 2022
• After your tires regain traction, continue to decelerate your vehicle and avoid coming to an abrupt stop.
  — Charles Singh, USA Today, 24 Feb. 2026
• Home-price growth decelerated in 2022 after a rapid rise in mortgage rates priced many buyers out of the market.
  — Nicole Friedman, WSJ, 28 Feb. 2023
• And unlike hitting a tree or another car, impact with a moose typically doesn’t cause the car to decelerate fast enough to trigger airbags.
  — Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 18 June 2026