How to Use ease off in a Sentence

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• The bike’s moving left-to-right, your mind’s telling you to ease off, but your gut’s telling you to stick with it.
  — Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 1 Oct. 2025
• The second half saw Payton ease off the gas pedal.
  — Luca Evans, Denver Post, 18 Jan. 2026
• The rigidity that had robbed her of movement began to ease off.
  — Jack Beresford, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2025
• It’s been pretty hectic for me so far, so fingers crossed things will ease off over the next few days.
  — Kris Holt, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2024
• Prices could ease off later this year if there’s a mild winter, but hope is rarely the best strategy.
  — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 10 Sep. 2021
• Give it the revs to around 4500, ease off the clutch, and lift that toe that went to market.
  — Dave Vanderwerp, Car and Driver, 29 Nov. 2021
• Start with a slow, leisurely descent and ease off the brakes to dial up the adrenaline.
  — Tiffany Acosta, The Arizona Republic, 18 July 2024
• Northwesterly wind gusts slowly ease off to the 20 mph mark by around midnight.
  — Washington Post, 5 Mar. 2021
• Moms and dads who ease off the nagging can still do plenty to get their teens out of Passenger Mode.
  — Jenny Anderson, The Atlantic, 26 Feb. 2025
• If the drive wheels start to spin or slide going up a hill, ease off on the accelerator and gently resume speed.
  — Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 26 Nov. 2021
• Trump’s trade playbook has often been to talk tough initially, then ease off some of the threats once a deal or some form of middle ground is in sight.
  — Jeff Marks, CNBC, 10 Oct. 2025
• But even then, APRs will only ease off extremely high levels.
  — Jessica Dickler, CNBC, 18 Aug. 2024
• Of interest here is whether the Flyers ease off the ask of a first-round pick (or equivalent) for Laughton.
  — Jonas Siegel, The Athletic, 26 Feb. 2025
• In an effort to rectify his command issues, the Dodgers have urged Sasaki to ease off the gas.
  — Fabian Ardaya, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2025
• The goal is to help consumers ease off a power grid that is being tested repeatedly by extreme weather.
  — Michael Franco, New Atlas, 14 Dec. 2024
• The fall has come as investors reassessed hopes that the Fed could ease off its campaign of big interest-rate increases.
  — Paul Vigna, WSJ, 1 Sep. 2022
• Central banks had been making smaller interest rate moves as inflation began to ease off of recent highs.
  — Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 23 June 2023
• But even then, credit card APRs will only ease off extremely high levels.
  — Jessica Dickler, CNBC, 27 Oct. 2025
• Reading about them may have reduced worry and caused some people to ease off hand-washing and physical distancing.
  — Ellen Peters, The Conversation, 27 Apr. 2021
• As good as Burrow and Chase are, if the Bengals ease off the run game, that plays into the pass rush of the Browns.
  — Lance Reisland, cleveland, 6 Nov. 2021
• The taper question — when the Fed will ease off the economic stimulus gas pedal — has been on investors' minds for months.
  — Anneken Tappe, CNN, 25 Aug. 2021
• The softer songs ease off of careful provocations and shouty tones, for the most part, in favor of more flowery writing and vocal deliveries.
  — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 24 Mar. 2026
• Traders hope signs economic activity is slowing and inflation pressures easing might prompt the Fed to ease off its plans.
  — Joe McDonald, ajc, 21 Nov. 2022
• The intense snowfall and winds began to ease off across New York and New Jersey by mid-afternoon.
  — Christopher Cann, USA Today, 23 Feb. 2026
• This means the Federal Reserve can ease off its string of rate hikes, which have already caused cracks in the banking sector and markets more broadly.
  — Michael Foster, Forbes, 18 Apr. 2023
• How the forecast could go off course Someday, inflation will decrease, the Fed will ease off on its rate increases, and mortgage rates will drop.
  — Holden Lewis, oregonlive, 6 July 2023
• But persistently higher prices are eating into consumers’ income, even as inflation slows and some brands finally start to ease off their price hikes.
  — J.j. McCorvey, NBC News, 17 Mar. 2024
• Inflation has been easing, at a relatively slow pace and not enough to convince the Fed to ease off the brakes in its policy to slow the economy.
  — CBS News, 22 Dec. 2022
• Team riders do not have to ease off to humor a wannabe; Adams has the sort of palmarès—the French word used in cycling for racing victories—to make any pro proud.
  — Carlton Reid, Forbes, 10 Apr. 2021
• That appeared to quiet speculation the Fed might ease off due to signs economic activity is cooling.
  — CBS News, 30 Aug. 2022