How to Use slowdown in a Sentence

slowdown

noun
  • The business had a slowdown after the holidays.
  • That slowdown hasn’t meant much in the rental market, though.
    — Rachel Siegel, Washington Post, 12 Apr. 2023
  • Surging rates have been the main cause of the sharp slowdown in the housing market.
    — Ben Eisen, WSJ, 5 Oct. 2023
  • The performance marked a slowdown from healthy GDP gains of 3.2% in the third quarter and 2.6% the final three months of the year.
    — Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 27 Apr. 2023
  • And now the slowdown in service that just hasn’t been addressed.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 21 Dec. 2022
  • One reason for the fundraising slowdown was the lack of mergers last year.
    — Luisa Beltran, Fortune, 27 Feb. 2024
  • This comes at a time when the rest o the industry expects a slowdown.
    — José Adorno, BGR, 10 Oct. 2022
  • At least the Times and Reuters aren’t affected by the current slowdown.
    — Simon Hurtz, The Verge, 15 Sep. 2023
  • But that slowdown in sales hasn't stopped home prices from climbing.
    — Genevieve Redsten, Journal Sentinel, 22 Dec. 2022
  • The luxury slowdown has hurt Kering in the past few months.
    — Prarthana Prakash, Fortune Europe, 5 Apr. 2024
  • The prices increases last month marked a slowdown from the 3.3% rate recorded in May.
    — Max Zahn, ABC News, 11 July 2024
  • The slowdown did not originate with the work stoppages of 2023.
    — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 21 May 2024
  • Beyond the layoffs, Best Buy has been pulling back across the board in response to sales slowdowns.
    — Wes Davis, The Verge, 11 June 2024
  • The trend continues a slowdown that has been a couple years in the making.
    — Melvin Backman, Quartz, 16 Aug. 2024
  • The slowdown would smooth out the city’s annual pension payments over the next two decades.
    — David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Sep. 2023
  • In recent months, the economy has shown signs of a slowdown.
    — Max Zahn, ABC News, 15 May 2024
  • The data marked a slowdown from 2.6% growth in the previous quarter.
    — Max Zahn, ABC News, 3 May 2023
  • The challenge, at least in the short term, is dealing with the demand slowdown at Disney theme parks.
    — Paulina Likos, CNBC, 17 Oct. 2024
  • Robinhood has suffered from a client slowdown since Crypto and the meme stock craze.
    — Jj Kinahan, Forbes, 3 Aug. 2022
  • This is causing mortgage rates to push up against 8% and could lead to a slowdown in the housing market.
    — Jj Kinahan, Forbes, 8 Jan. 2025
  • The counterforce from a slowdown in sales is a rise in demand for the kind of rentals that Arbor finances.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 14 July 2022
  • Meanwhile, demand is down due to a slowdown in people moving to the state.
    — Jason D. Greenblatt, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Apr. 2025
  • Elon Musk's net worth has taken a tumble since the start of the year due to a slight slowdown at one of his key companies.
    — Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 30 Jan. 2025
  • That figure is a tick down from the 2.5% print of August, implying a slowdown in price growth.
    — Natasha Turak,matt Clinch, CNBC, 4 Nov. 2024
  • More drivers will also need to switch to EVs and reverse the recent slowdown in sales.
    — Josh Boak, Fortune, 26 May 2024
  • At the end of 2023, the economy appeared to be headed for a benign slowdown.
    — Jeanna Smialek, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2024
  • Biotech execs worry this could lead to a slowdown in new medicines within the next few years if things don’t turn around soon.
    — Jonathan Wosen, STAT, 22 Nov. 2023
  • The slowdown has not so far improved U.S. adults' feelings about the economy.
    — Compiled Bydemocrat-Gazette Stafffrom Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 28 Nov. 2023
  • Luxury, for instance, has seen the US as its most resilient market in a global slowdown.
    — Marc Bain and Joan Kennedy, CNN Money, 3 Apr. 2025
  • With the slowdown in luxury demand, that job has become harder but Lambert is taking the long view, which is not surprising given his three decades of working at the hard luxury giant Richemont.
    — Samantha Conti, Footwear News, 1 Apr. 2025

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