How to Use downshift in a Sentence

downshift

verb
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  • You can downshift to slow the car down.
  • Also, there are signs that inflation is poised to downshift in the second half of the year.
    — Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 27 July 2022
  • The gearbox is quicker to downshift in Drive and holds onto gears longer.
    — Mike Duff, Car and Driver, 19 Aug. 2022
  • Wilson doesn’t see any sign that the North Texas home market will downshift.
    — Steve Brown, Dallas News, 7 May 2021
  • The gearbox is easy to downshift quickly on a mountain pass or while bouncing along a dirt road.
    — Elana Scherr, Car and Driver, 2 Aug. 2021
  • Left in Drive, the eight-speed short shifts into second gear at around 5900 revs and is slow to respond to downshift requests.
    — Scott Oldham, Car and Driver, 25 Sep. 2020
  • There are no turbochargers to spool, no transmissions to downshift, no sweet spot in the powerband to reach.
    — Bradley Iger, Ars Technica, 17 Aug. 2022
  • The thinking was that such a slowdown would let the Fed downshift the size of its rate hikes through the end of this year and then potentially hold steady through early 2023.
    — Time, 13 Sep. 2022
  • This style has become more of a necessity to unwind and downshift from the hectic flow of life here.
    — Joan Morris, The Mercury News, 2 July 2019
  • An outdoor television can help him downshift from work to play mode.
    — Jamie Gold, Forbes, 15 June 2021
  • After his run with luxe Huntsville restaurants, Erick is ready to downshift to simpler fare for The Standard.
    — Matt Wake | [email protected], al, 22 Sep. 2021
  • The phones will downshift to Verizon’s 4G network when 5G isn’t available.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 19 Nov. 2019
  • Caregivers — many of whom are women — tend to downshift their careers or leave the workforce entirely to take care of loved ones.
    — Polina Pompliano, Fortune, 10 Aug. 2023
  • Drivers need to downshift for maximum power, but the torque of second and third gears can be swallowed by hills.
    — Scott Sturgis, Philly.com, 28 July 2017
  • Making whiskey has forced Ms. Milam to downshift from the fast pace of the entertainment business.
    — Michael Hoinski, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2018
  • Oh, and the chef whose mind never seems to downshift is considering a new dessert for the barbecue restaurant.
    — Greg Morago, Houston Chronicle, 12 June 2018
  • There's numbness in the steering, but the gearbox is clever enough to downshift under braking and upshift at redline.
    — Tony Quiroga, Car and Driver, 7 Feb. 2022
  • The thinking was that a slowdown in inflation would let the Fed downshift the size of its rate hikes through the end of this year and then potentially hold steady through early 2023.
    — CBS News, 13 Sep. 2022
  • Also, hiring has been expected to downshift now that the U.S. has recouped all 22 million jobs lost in the health crisis.
    — Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 5 Aug. 2022
  • Others say big businesses will eke out modest gains, but all agree that growth has downshifted sharply from a year ago.
    — CBS News, 11 July 2019
  • Wells Fargo expects growth to downshift in the current quarter before the economy contracts in the second half of the year and in early 2024.
    — Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 27 Apr. 2023
  • The economy is still stuck in a lackluster pace, and its growth downshifted to 1.4 percent in the first three months of the year from 2.1 percent in last year’s final quarter.
    — Stan Choe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 30 June 2017
  • Though the book opens with a bloody foot landing in a passenger’s lap, Newman knows when to downshift to let in some compassion, a resource sorely needed in the air and on the ground.
    — Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2021
  • The buzzy and peaky four-cylinder isn't a good match for the eight-speed automatic transmission, which is reluctant to downshift.
    — Joey Capparella, Car and Driver, 4 Aug. 2023
  • Your mojo could downshift into slow motion for the rest of the year (perhaps tempering the sizzle of Scorpio season a bit).
    — The Astrotwins, ELLE, 30 Nov. 2022
  • Second, the economy appears to be downshifting to a slower rate of growth, which could lead to choppy reports.
    — Sharon Nunn, WSJ, 15 Feb. 2019
  • The company has already recalled 1.5 million of the trucks due to a transmission flaw that could cause the vehicles to downshift to first gear with no warning.
    — Chris Morris, Fortune, 2 Jan. 2019
  • That means drivers have to downshift twice at the end of the front stretch and once at the end of the back stretch, which could make for a long day in temperatures expected to hit 90 degrees Fahrenheit (32 Celsius).
    — Dave Skretta, ajc, 4 June 2022
  • Six speeds don't seem like many these days, but the automatic doesn't hesitate to downshift, and its crisp shifts were much preferred to the faux shifts of the competition's CVTs.
    — Joe Lorio, Car and Driver, 22 Sep. 2021
  • Stack draws on an element of Monty Python-ish good humor (Simon is, unsurprisingly, a big fan of their comedy) but is able to downshift into brawler mode at any moment.
    — Vulture, 29 Oct. 2023

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