How to Use ease off in a Sentence

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  • Give it the revs to around 4500, ease off the clutch, and lift that toe that went to market.
    — Dave Vanderwerp, Car and Driver, 29 Nov. 2021
  • As good as Burrow and Chase are, if the Bengals ease off the run game, that plays into the pass rush of the Browns.
    — Lance Reisland, cleveland, 6 Nov. 2021
  • Prices could ease off later this year if there’s a mild winter, but hope is rarely the best strategy.
    — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 10 Sep. 2021
  • If the drive wheels start to spin or slide going up a hill, ease off on the accelerator and gently resume speed.
    — Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 26 Nov. 2021
  • Northwesterly wind gusts slowly ease off to the 20 mph mark by around midnight.
    — Washington Post, 5 Mar. 2021
  • Team riders do not have to ease off to humor a wannabe; Adams has the sort of palmarès—the French word used in cycling for racing victories—to make any pro proud.
    — Carlton Reid, Forbes, 10 Apr. 2021
  • The fall has come as investors reassessed hopes that the Fed could ease off its campaign of big interest-rate increases.
    — Paul Vigna, WSJ, 1 Sep. 2022
  • The taper question — when the Fed will ease off the economic stimulus gas pedal — has been on investors' minds for months.
    — Anneken Tappe, CNN, 25 Aug. 2021
  • This means the Federal Reserve can ease off its string of rate hikes, which have already caused cracks in the banking sector and markets more broadly.
    — Michael Foster, Forbes, 18 Apr. 2023
  • Indian Creek eventually did ease off on the press but continued to hound Purdue Poly guards well past the 3-point line.
    — Wilson Moore, The Indianapolis Star, 12 Feb. 2023
  • How the forecast could go off course Someday, inflation will decrease, the Fed will ease off on its rate increases, and mortgage rates will drop.
    — Holden Lewis, oregonlive, 6 July 2023
  • Inflation has been easing, at a relatively slow pace and not enough to convince the Fed to ease off the brakes in its policy to slow the economy.
    — CBS News, 22 Dec. 2022
  • Reading about them may have reduced worry and caused some people to ease off hand-washing and physical distancing.
    — Ellen Peters, The Conversation, 27 Apr. 2021
  • There will always be an upstart looking to challenge Alabama’s supremacy, so Saban was never going to ease off the gas.
    — John Talty | [email protected], al, 1 Aug. 2022
  • Traders hope signs economic activity is slowing and inflation pressures easing might prompt the Fed to ease off its plans.
    — Joe McDonald, ajc, 21 Nov. 2022
  • On top of those worries, investors are watching to see if the Federal Reserve might ease off the accelerator on its support for the economy.
    — Yuri Kageyama, ajc, 21 Sep. 2021
  • Central banks had been making smaller interest rate moves as inflation began to ease off of recent highs.
    — Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 23 June 2023
  • But even so, Zimeray is hoping that the report might persuade Japan to ease off its aggressive prosecution of cases; about 99% of trials in Japan end in convictions.
    — Vivienne Walt, Fortune, 23 Nov. 2020
  • Investors have been keenly attentive to the Federal Reserve this year, attempting to bet on when the central bank will ease off its tightening cycle and relieve some of the pressure on stocks.
    — Eric Wallerstein, WSJ, 19 Oct. 2022
  • That dashed hopes the U.S. central bank might ease off increases due to signs inflation and economic activity are cooling.
    — Joe McDonald and Matt Ott, Chicago Tribune, 19 Dec. 2022
  • That appeared to quiet speculation the Fed might ease off due to signs economic activity is cooling.
    — CBS News, 30 Aug. 2022
  • Wall Street's benchmark S&P 500 index gained after bond prices rose, suggesting some investors expect the Fed to ease off rate hikes as economic activity cools.
    — Joe McDonald, ajc, 26 Oct. 2022
  • And in that hypothetical, the oil guys can ask Biden to ease off environmental regulations.
    — Allison Morrow, CNN, 12 Nov. 2021
  • The chancellor had hoped to ease off on spending that already pushed government debt to an eyewatering total above 2 trillion pounds ($2.6 trillion) for the first time, but a resurgent outbreak of the coronavirus has scuppered that plan.
    — Lucy Meakin, Bloomberg.com, 24 Sep. 2020
  • The Biden administration’s deal to ease off steel and aluminum tariffs from Europe has won plaudits from much of U.S. industry, but a complex new quota system that comes with it has fueled concerns for small importers.
    — Josh Zumbrun, WSJ, 5 Nov. 2021
  • Investors were encouraging by lower U.S. inflation reported last week, hoping that will prompt the Federal Reserve to ease off plans for more interest rate hikes.
    — Yuri Kageyama, ajc, 14 Nov. 2022
  • Stocks have been rising as concerns about inflation abate, fueling expectations that the Federal Reserve will be able to ease off on its aggressive interest rate hikes.
    — Harold Maass, The Week, 4 Apr. 2023
  • The benchmark ended August with a 4.2% loss after surging the previous month on expectations the Fed might ease off rate hikes due to signs U.S. economic activity was cooling and inflation might be leveling off.
    — CBS News, 2 Sep. 2022
  • McConnell orchestrated the way around the problem by allowing the traditional vote on Thursday night and even joining 10 other Republican senators in helping Democrats reach the 60-vote threshold needed to ease off the crisis.
    — Lisa Mascaro, chicagotribune.com, 9 Oct. 2021
  • The stock market finished higher after choppy trading on Thursday, with consumer and tech stocks leading the gains as investors seemed to ease off recent concerns about a potential economic slowdown triggered by surging inflation and rising rates.
    — Sergei Klebnikov, Forbes, 2 June 2022

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