How to Use peter in a Sentence

peter

1 of 2 verb

• Streets peter out into dirt paths and pick up again farther up the hill.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 25 June 2021
• What happened is the war -- the draft first petered out before the war.
  — Fox News, 8 Aug. 2018
• The danger is that all four of these factors are now petering out.
  — The Economist, 24 Oct. 2019
• But the furious scoring pace didn’t last, as the game petered out.
  — Victor Mather, New York Times, 3 July 2018
• Cheers and the buzz of the baseball petered out after 391 feet.
  — Hunter Atkins, Houston Chronicle, 19 June 2018
• The game appeared to be petering out but there was still time for a crazy final few minutes.
  — SI.com, 27 June 2018
• When that happens, the cycle of surges will stop and the pandemic will peter out.
  — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 12 Aug. 2021
• That action would last only an hour at most, and then the bites would peter down to almost nothing.
  — Todd Masson, NOLA.com, 24 July 2017
• The dynasty could peter out even if a healthy Durant returns.
  — Michael Shapiro, SI.com, 24 June 2019
• Glanny Lozano @glanny_lozano no one defends peters right to bang more than barb & peter sr.
  — Jenny Hollander, Marie Claire, 10 Mar. 2020
• But the effect can peter out over time, and fatigue and despair may follow, experts say.
  — New York Times, 15 Apr. 2021
• As the game looked to be petering out, Messi ignited the flame once more.
  — SI.com, 19 Sep. 2017
• But if a peace treaty is signed, the US troops are bound to peter out,’’ Byong-chul said.
  — Choe Sang-Hun and Motoko Rich, BostonGlobe.com, 4 May 2018
• Fran Curci got things rolling in the mid-1970s but petered out through the rest of the decade.
  — Paul Myerberg, USA TODAY, 21 June 2018
• My family lives on a very quiet road that peters out at the foot of a mountain and turns into an old logging track.
  — Dan Chiasson, The New York Review of Books, 21 Apr. 2020
• But Machado was thrown out trying to turn it into a double, and the inning petered out.
  — Jon Meoli, baltimoresun.com, 13 June 2017
• Icardi's miss proved to essentially be the last kick of the game, and the match petered out to a 0-0 draw.
  — SI.com, 4 Apr. 2018
• Eventually, the road peters out into the pier and the sea, where boys wade up to their waists, casting lines into the lazy surf.
  — Horatio Clare, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Dec. 2018
• And then the case dragged on past the end of Congress's session, and the once-passionate issue petered out.
  — Byron York, Washington Examiner, 6 Jan. 2020
• The match petered out into a draw, as neither side was able to find the vital breakthrough to secure the victory.
  — SI.com, 4 Feb. 2018
• The goal is to get that number below 1, meaning the virus will eventually peter out.
  — Mark Olalde, USA TODAY, 3 Aug. 2020
• Closer to penmanship than painting, this narrow concept of the medium seemed to have petered out a while ago.
  — Roberta Smith, New York Times, 31 May 2018
• As the second-half wore on the visitors started to tire and Milan were happy to let the game peter out.
  — SI.com, 22 Feb. 2018
• The bank projected that the tax bill will add just three-tenths of 1 percent of growth in the next two years, before its impact peters out.
  — Patricia Cohen, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2017
• Heading north from the coast, the population peters out as the landscape switches to arid, dusty outback.
  — Mark Ellwood, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 Feb. 2020
• The balmy caress of a warm fall — a shorts and t-shirt, open windows at night, drop dead gorgeous season — petered out on Monday.
  — Robert King, Indianapolis Star, 23 Oct. 2017
• It’s met by counter measures and/or peters itself out, mostly by being denied access to more human hosts.
  — Ivan Buendia Gayton, STAT, 7 July 2026
• The Rams had a run of success in the 1970s that appeared to be petering out by the end of the decade.
  — Chris Chase, For The Win, 28 May 2018
• In the past such a plume of warm, moist air migrating north from Siberia would have encountered ice, quickly cooled down and perhaps petered out.
  — Robin George Andrews, National Geographic, 13 Aug. 2019
• But the roadmap has petered out, and the Moto Z lineup itself seems to be getting less ambitious with time.
  — Chris Welch, The Verge, 13 Aug. 2018

peter

2 of 2 noun

• Peters walked away under his own power and finished 13th.
  — Drew Davison, star-telegram.com, 2017-06-09
• Peters and five other firefighters, all former beach lifeguards, attended a week-long refresher course in Ventura last month.
  — Phil Diehl, sandiegouniontribune.com, 2017-05-23
• Peters focused on the rehabilitative potential of putting a powerful electronic tool into the hands of inmates.
  — Kirk Mitchell, The Denver Post, 2017-05-09
• Peters and six other Central Prison inmates won settlements from the state after filing lawsuits alleging brutality.
  — Ames Alexander, Gavin Off and Elizabeth Leland, charlotteobserver, 2017-05-31
• But drive into places like San Simón, where the concrete houses stand incomplete and the paved road peters out, and the poverty that drives people to leave for the United States comes into focus.
  — Elisabeth Malkin, New York Times, 2017-05-20
• Peters went on to work at the university as associate director of community connections, and she has also been employed at Brighton Center as a community engagement specialist and manager for the center for employment training program.
  — Community Recorder, Cincinnati.com, 2017-05-14