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As he thought of her, his anger slowly petered out.

The Green Movement's initial promise soon petered out, revealing, sadly, that it had very little political content to cohere support around.

"Now two years later we see that this energy has sort of fizzled and petered out, " Hoffman said.

A tenderness she might have conveyed petered out in a shiver as she stood the glass on the gritty surface of the metal table.

It was a large object, I only saw it for two or three seconds. It was going in a low trajectory then petered out into nothing.

It is bad enough when trade talks break up in acrimony; how much worse that the Geneva gathering petered out amid complacency and apathy.

The much-feared Japanese takeover of the computer and cultural industries back in the 1980s now has petered out into a historical footnote.

But within a few days the conference had petered out in disarray.

But it petered out in the next few years as Brezhnev took a grip in Moscow.

That discrepancy was eventually explained by Einstein as a relativistic effect of the sun's gravity, and the search for Vulcan petered out.

The rest petered out, usually because one of the recipients was either too busy to forward the message or thought it was junk mail.

For a while that book was indeed very popular, but it was not long before the demand petered out.

Without entry into the eurozone, this might have petered out.

The music just petered out --there was no proper ending .

But the growth has petered out: online revenue has plateaued at about 12% of the company total and declined slightly last quarter.

That also explains why talk of mergers and acquisitions in the sector has petered out, for now.

It had petered out soon after Anne's marriage.

That gave City the most precarious of footholds in the tie but their challenge petered out in the second half.

The debate petered out, which was a shame as it touched on an important issue in the debate about multitasking: rudeness.

History suggests that trends established during periods of low trading volumes have swiftly petered out once volumes picked up.

An effort to revive Mongolian script to replace the Cyrillic alphabet imposed in the seven decades of Soviet domination petered out.

But Mr Brown was never that keen on mixing markets with health care. Since he became prime minister, the bolder measures have petered out.

The sniping focuses on a study that found the educational gains from Head Start had petered out by third grade.

While last year's rally in metal seems to have petered out, prospects for platinum, along with palladium, remain bright.

But, after 2000, as the crisis remained confined to emerging markets, discussion petered out.

Examples After he got married, his appetite for partying petered out. He rarely stays out late now.

Our trail petered out, as seems inevitable in these situations.

Her enthusiasm for dancing petered out and she stopped going to lessons .

As the river dried up, our water supply petered out.

The firing petered out yesterday evening.

His interest in learning Japanese has petered out.

I'll bet the party petered out pretty soon after that.

Finally, after a couple of hours, the gunfire petered out.

Countries like Japan (mid-50s to the mid-70s) and South Korea (in the 70s) enjoyed periods of rampant growth that eventually petered out.

The storm petered out finally .

After a long desert journey the oxen became much petered.

That has now petered out.