How to Use flatline in a Sentence

flatline

verb

• Their stock prices had more or less flatlined for at least a decade.
  — Bygeoff Colvin, Fortune, 20 Apr. 2024
• The gauges on the dashboard flatlined and the lights went black.
  — Scott Haugen, Outdoor Life, 11 Sep. 2024
• The scoring punch has flatlined.
  — Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 21 Jan. 2026
• Over the last year, borrowing costs rose and rents flatlined.
  — Alena Botros, Fortune, 30 Dec. 2023
• Tulloch knows well that most of the projects in that spreadsheet of hers will flatline.
  — Ari Daniel, NPR, 13 May 2025
• But that progress stalled as cases have flatlined and even ticked up in some countries in the past few years.
  — Shannon Osaka, BostonGlobe.com, 1 July 2023
• Whelan flatlined, and Reyes had to break the news to Jet and the rest of the team.
  — Christy Piña, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Jan. 2024
• If the large ships’ calls aren’t reduced, that growth will flatline or even decline, the coalition warns.
  — Erica E. Phillips, WSJ, 19 Dec. 2018
• So random though, and never had both my phone and internet just flatline like that.
  — James Bickerton, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Oct. 2025
• But while exports are booming, wage growth in the two-track economy has flatlined.
  — Jeronimo Gonzalez, semafor.com, 22 Apr. 2026
• But while exports are booming, wage growth in the two-track economy has flatlined.
  — Semafor Events, semafor.com, 24 Apr. 2026
• Advanced economies could flatline their emissions tomorrow and all would still be lost.
  — David Roberts, Vox, 11 July 2019
• Our life expectancy has flatlined.
  — Angela Haupt, Time, 17 Aug. 2025
• Last year, the stock flatlined despite big data center order growth.
  — Morgan Chittum, CNBC, 1 July 2026
• And that’s the exact moment when Katherine flatlines and dies.
  — Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 27 June 2024
• Nearly 12 years ago, Randy Travis flatlined three times in the midst of a stroke.
  — Melissa Ruggieri, USA Today, 9 Apr. 2025
• Every time the plot hits the reset button, the tension flatlines.
  — Justin Chang, New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2025
• Stand on your seats and give it up for a genre that refused to flatline, even when the think pieces already had the casket picked out.
  — Carl Lamarre, Billboard, 29 Oct. 2025
• The rest are flatlining or folding entirely.
  — Alexander Puutio, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2025
• Once front-line teams stop trusting the data—or can't see how the tools help their day-to-day—the adoption curve flatlines.
  — Andy Watts, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
• But their free cashflow has flatlined—because it is being blown on data centers.
  — Jim Edwards, Fortune, 2 June 2026
• And all this musical angst, rendered in what often feel like the same endless vamps, soon starts to flatline.
  — Ben Brantley, New York Times, 7 Nov. 2019
• Fisk was left devastated as doctors rushed in, but were unable to save his wife, who flatlined and died.
  — Brendan Morrow, USA Today, 15 Apr. 2026
• Btw, if relevance were a birth rate, Kid Rock had already flatlined a decade ago.
  — Marni Rose McFall, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 May 2025
• If, on the other hand, an art expert declares the Bacon to be a forgery, the stock price will flatline.
  — Samanth Subramanian, Quartz, 23 June 2023
• But the charts could alert a technician that when this name flatlines, its shares usually suffer a funk, and tank in the days or weeks ahead.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 29 Oct. 2024
• The company’s shipment growth to China flatlined year-on-year in the third quarter.
  — Arjun Kharpal, CNBC, 25 Oct. 2024
• Indeed, Zandi is predicting the year-over-year rate of home price growth will flatline to 0% by this time next year.
  — Fortune, 13 June 2022
• The number of biomedical postdocs, which had risen for decades, has flatlined and now has begun to decline.
  — Jonathan Wosen, STAT, 6 June 2023
• That’s enough oomph to resuscitate a flatlining iPhone 12 Pro at least three times.
  — Jen Murphy, Outside Online, 21 Oct. 2024