| Prices take no account of the structural changes that happen when resources peter out. |
| Today, the upbeats will become more downbeat as the trumpet tootles peter out and the sax puts a lid on the headlong rush of demisemiquavers for another year. |
| Over land they lose their strength and peter out, but not before causing some damage. |
| I suspicioned he'd peter out when Pap Spooner died, but he fooled us the worst kind. |
| The Commission's central forecast assumes that the financial distress will peter out gradually. |
| Some films peter out purely on lack of effort in developing the main storyline. |
