How to Use downscale in a Sentence

downscale

1 of 2 verb

• The festival will have to be downscaled this year.
• While most broadcasters are downscaling, Arte still harbours large ambitions.
  — John Hopewell, Variety, 26 Mar. 2026
• The initial targets were appropriately bullish, but the first-quarter tariff panic drove most strategists to downscale their forecasts near the low.
  — Michael Santoli, CNBC, 4 Dec. 2025
• An unintended consequence could be companies deciding to downscale their real estate holdings to cut costs.
  — Jack Kelly, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2023
• The decision to downscale the mass vaccination sites was made given overall statewide progress on vaccinations, the governor’s office said.
  — Fernando Alfonso Iii, CNN, 19 June 2021
• Yet several cities have needed to downscale their plans, particularly around official fan festivals.
  — Adam Crafton, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2026
• Conservationists have been fighting for several years to downscale the project proposal, and would ultimately like the creek returned to its natural state.
  — Los Angeles Times, 16 June 2021
• In real life, many Judas Priest fans were despondent over the absence of original singer Rob Halford, and the band had to downscale from arenas to clubs.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 18 July 2022
• First, the union sought a share of revenue generated by series shown on streaming platforms (2 percent, which negotiators later downscaled to 1 percent).
  — Katie Kilkenny, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
• So wrote Henry David Thoreau, famously, in Walden, the totemic 19th-century ode to downscale, off-the-grid living.
  — Tom Vanderbilt, Outside Online, 28 Mar. 2023
• While games would usually start at crisp HD resolutions, the image would sometime downscale very noticeably in the middle of play, resulting in grainy textures and washed out colors.
  — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 18 Oct. 2019
• In 2021, even as safety precautions are lifted, couples are continuing to intentionally downscale their celebrations.
  — Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 29 June 2021
• Built into the frames, positioned between the eyes, is a CMOS sensor capable of recording point-of-view footage at 3K resolution (at 60 frames per second) or downscaled 1080p video.
  — New Atlas, 24 June 2026
• Biden officials ultimately succeeded in persuading Israel to downscale its Rafah operation, one of several modest successes in using pressure to improve humanitarian outcomes in Gaza, and never resumed the delivery of 2,000-pound bombs.
  — Rebecca Lissner, Foreign Affairs, 14 Nov. 2025

downscale

2 of 2 adjective

• The company aims to reach a more downscale market with its new stores.
• But by the mid-2000s, they were reduced to playing downscale gigs like state fairs.
  — Todd Longwell, Variety, 9 Oct. 2025
• Over the game's six chapters, nearly all of its puzzles utilize this upscale/downscale mechanic.
  — Peter Rubin, Wired, 2 Mar. 2021
• The fast food giant is struggling in its competition with other chains for downscale customers, who continue to be scared away by inflation.
  — Francisco Velasquez, Quartz, 6 May 2024
• Becket grew up poor, in downscale Belleville, NJ (his mother was kicked to the curb after getting pregnant out of wedlock).
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 18 Feb. 2026
• Its prices are decidedly downscale, but its ingredient list is impressive.
  — Andy Staples, SI.com, 30 June 2017
• Phillips argued that social and cultural issues would attract more downscale voters to the GOP.
  — Vincent J. Cannato, National Review, 13 May 2021
• Across the country, brides-to-be have had to cancel, postpone or downscale wedding celebrations out of coronavirus safety precautions and stay-at-home orders.
  — NBC News, 17 May 2020
• Lebowitz recalled that Navarro bought and renovated a three-story building in one of Cambridge’s more downscale neighborhoods.
  — Ian Parker, New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2025
• Williamson has earned praise for attacking the conservative fetishization of downscale white culture, but his underlying argument is not original.
  — Sarah Jones, New Republic, 25 Oct. 2017
• Or an entire town shut down by a plant closing, being stripped of its ZIP Code, forcing depressed, penniless residents to flee to hideously downscale trailer parks?
  — Joe Queenan, WSJ, 2 Apr. 2021
• And so that was about shifting Democrats from basically going after downscale manufacturing workers to working women who were leaving their kids, and for whom really there’d been almost no policy or politics up until that point.
  — Elizabeth Crane, Recode, 18 May 2018
• Our team of scientists, however, has developed a geographic and statistical model to downscale national opinion results to the state, congressional district, and county levels.
  — Paul Douglas, Star Tribune, 24 Sep. 2020
• Beyond targeting more downscale shoppers, Apple will be able to pitch the computer as an option for corporate and organizational buyers — given its lower price and compatibility with both Mac and iPhone apps.
  — Bloomberg, Mercury News, 4 Mar. 2026
• Visually, the queen of this rodeo is Dianne Graebner’s costume design, from day in and day out downscale dress for home and office wear to an unexpected range of intentionally tacky ancient Egyptian garb and, appropriately, enough sequinning to make the concert sequence cowgirl togs sparkle.
  — Christopher Smith, Oc Register, 4 Aug. 2025
• In maybe the funniest scene in the episode, Duncan’s wife Lili has assembled an entire college-enrollment team around Jamie to chart her path to Stanford, which isn’t looking good with a sub-1300 SAT score that isn’t even good enough for such downscale institutions as Duke or Carnegie Mellon.
  — Scott Tobias, Vulture, 12 Apr. 2026