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use up all one's strength and energy and stop working
At the end of the march, I pooped out -
end weakly
The music just petered out--there was no proper ending
How To Use peter out In A Sentence
- An England international, the Hull-born Liverpudlian, who began his career as an exciting youngster at Tottenham, then saw his Liverpool career peter out disappointingly.
- The growth of China's massive economy is beginning to slow as stimulus funds peter out and aggressive monetary tightening measures take effect.
- 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.
- But the worry is that the overhang of plant and equipment will continue to forestall further capital investment, and that consumer spending will peter out in the face of rising unemployment and unsustainable levels of debt.
- We then rewind through the previous stories, expecting everything to come together with a bang, but instead seeing each tale peter out in a whimper.
- He did want Turkish Delight and to be a Prince (and later a King) and to pay Peter out for calling him a beast.
- How it was supposed to go down, she'd walk in, get Peter out of the way, talk the magic word outa 3Jane, get up to the head, and say it. Wonder Woman and the Lasso of Truth
- Usually , however, such heresy - hunts peter out quickly in the face of faculty solidarity.
- Some films peter out purely on lack of effort in developing the main storyline.
