How to Use downshift in a Sentence

downshift

verb

• You can downshift to slow the car down.
• The gearbox is easy to downshift quickly on a mountain pass or while bouncing along a dirt road.
  — Elana Scherr, Car and Driver, 2 Aug. 2021
• Also, there are signs that inflation is poised to downshift in the second half of the year.
  — Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 27 July 2022
• The gearbox is quicker to downshift in Drive and holds onto gears longer.
  — Mike Duff, Car and Driver, 19 Aug. 2022
• Wilson doesn’t see any sign that the North Texas home market will downshift.
  — Steve Brown, Dallas News, 7 May 2021
• But none of those teams was prepared to downshift as dramatically, if at all.
  — Ken Rosenthal, The Athletic, 29 July 2024
• That in turn has forced traders to downshift forecasts for how much the Fed will ultimately cut rates by.
  — Stan Choe, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2024
• There are no turbochargers to spool, no transmissions to downshift, no sweet spot in the powerband to reach.
  — Bradley Iger, Ars Technica, 17 Aug. 2022
• Others say big businesses will eke out modest gains, but all agree that growth has downshifted sharply from a year ago.
  — CBS News, 11 July 2019
• The idea is to downshift from excess arousal into a more centred space, Nedas explained.
  — Charlotte Harpur, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2026
• This style has become more of a necessity to unwind and downshift from the hectic flow of life here.
  — Joan Morris, The Mercury News, 2 July 2019
• Drivers need to downshift for maximum power, but the torque of second and third gears can be swallowed by hills.
  — Scott Sturgis, Philly.com, 28 July 2017
• Oh, and the chef whose mind never seems to downshift is considering a new dessert for the barbecue restaurant.
  — Greg Morago, Houston Chronicle, 12 June 2018
• Hiring has downshifted in recent months, raising concerns of a slowdown after a decade of growth.
  — Sarah Chaney, WSJ, 5 July 2019
• There's numbness in the steering, but the gearbox is clever enough to downshift under braking and upshift at redline.
  — Tony Quiroga, Car and Driver, 7 Feb. 2022
• Many were retired, some were downshifting, others soldiering on in the workplace.
  — Robert Weisman, BostonGlobe.com, 5 July 2019
• Second, the economy appears to be downshifting to a slower rate of growth, which could lead to choppy reports.
  — Sharon Nunn, WSJ, 15 Feb. 2019
• The trend, however, threatens to downshift the nation’s brisk economic growth.
  — Max Zahn, ABC News, 3 May 2024
• The buzzy and peaky four-cylinder isn't a good match for the eight-speed automatic transmission, which is reluctant to downshift.
  — Joey Capparella, Car and Driver, 4 Aug. 2023
• Left in Drive, the eight-speed short shifts into second gear at around 5900 revs and is slow to respond to downshift requests.
  — Scott Oldham, Car and Driver, 25 Sep. 2020
• Because the brain loves patterns, predictability is helpful for the nervous system to downshift more quickly.
  — Caroline Lubinsky, Martha Stewart, 16 Feb. 2026
• The phones will downshift to Verizon’s 4G network when 5G isn’t available.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 19 Nov. 2019
• Your mojo could downshift into slow motion for the rest of the year (perhaps tempering the sizzle of Scorpio season a bit).
  — The Astrotwins, ELLE, 30 Nov. 2022
• The island can downshift into a period of dormancy for a short while, before ramping up again to deal with the eight bells that sound in the finale’s closing scene.
  — Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 17 June 2026
• After his run with luxe Huntsville restaurants, Erick is ready to downshift to simpler fare for The Standard.
  — Matt Wake | [email protected], al, 22 Sep. 2021
• First, these will be the last Corvettes with a manual transmission—a trick seven-speeder with a rev-matching function for downshifting.
  — Dan Neil, WSJ, 28 Nov. 2018
• And when the Rockets finally caught on to his rhythm, Burks found a new one—downshifting his manic drives to make calculated reads.
  — Rob Mahoney, SI.com, 3 May 2018
• At the same time, consumer sentiment plummeted to a seven-month low this month, raising the risk that the economy’s biggest engine may be poised to downshift.
  — Los Angeles Times, 21 Aug. 2019
• The data were widely seen as giving Fed officials room to further downshift the pace of rate hikes at the February meeting.
  — Elena Popina, Fortune, 15 Jan. 2023
• This quiet settling phase allows the nervous system to downshift and reinforces feelings of safety and connection.
  — Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025