When Bulldog Carney struck Bucking Horse it was a sick town, decrepid, suffering from premature old age, for most of the mines had petered out.
There never was nothin' but a few stringers of gold--they soon petered out.
I stopped short, the orchestra petered out in discord and, walking to the apron of the stage, I modulated my voice, so that it reached him quietly but effectively, where he stood in the back of the theatre.
I believe my voice peteredout before I completed the sentence.
Then they gave out that the lode had petered out and they threw it overboard and everybody with it.
Why, this place has been petered out for years and years," he said.
Gold this side of the Hualapai Range had "petered out.
All the pay streaks petered out years an' years ago.
There was no need for him to pull back the lever, for the musical box, as though guessing his wishes, suddenlypetered out with a sort of metallic growl.
In the room below the excited talk had petered out and only a sound of soft snoring was heard, like the breathing of cows in a byre.
They used to go out for miles to fish, but now they are so petered out that they go only to the mouths of the rivers to fish.
That a race has played the game, has been powerful and conquering and triumphant, and then step by step has petered out and become weak and senile until biological decay has set in--that is fearful.
I figure the kids had wandered around till they petered out, an' then, when they were exhausted, the wolves got 'em.
Burns gets a little thin an' petered out under the strain, but time an' agin he succeeds in givin' 'em the slip.
The saber now hangs idly in its sheath and the alarums of war have petered out.
Unfortunately he has told several large openfaced lies and the feeling of pity for him has petered out, if I may be allowed that expression.
Hec had traced his background through three moves that brought the author across the country, but the trail petered out at a ranch in Wyoming where Hillary had worked a month as a cow-hand.
As they proceeded this petered out, and the three started wandering over the country, whistling now and again, but receiving no answer.
When it eventually petered out it was at some distance to the north of the probable position of the motor-boat.
Our troubles were not at an end, for half an hour later the engine began to fail, and, while Cochrane was below looking for the cause of the trouble, she petered out.
Lady Auriol laughed again and the Jeremiad petered out.
The brilliant sunny season peteredout in hopeless September, raw and chill.
He looks all petered out, and he'll want his supper early.
I was mostpetered out an' I do want to finish this field afore I quit.
At that from Miss Schump, Miss Kinealy executed a very soprano squeal that petered out in a titter of remonstrances.
When Mr. Goldstone slept, every alternate breath started with a rumble somewhere down in the depths of him and, drawn up like a chain from a well, petered out into a thin whistle before the next descent.
But they petered out, and ain't nobody raked over the old dumps, even, but some Chinamen, for ten year.
But unless this strange prospector, who had hung about the abandoned claims for so many months, had struck into a new vein, the silver horde had quite "petered out.
The day, which for Lilly began with the tickle of aërial champagne, petered out humiliatingly.
Taylor Avenue (then almost the city's edge, and which now is a girdle worn high about its gigantic middle) petered out into violently muddy and unmade streets and great patches of unimproved vacant lots that in winter were gaunt with husks.
Of course she had competition finally and her business sort of petered out.
However, later in the day it seemed as if their particular camp had petered out.
Evidence of an Inca road over the mountain hadpetered out.
The man listened attentively as the boy told how his partner's claim had sloped off into his own and "petered out.
So Connie obligingly departed and, as he rammed in the moss and daubed it with mud, peered through a crack and smiled knowingly as he watched the "petered out" man heaving and straining by the side of Waseche Bill in the setting of a log.
I thought the one we tackled yeste'day was it, too--but it peteredout on us.
We'd better go back to the place where the signpetered out.
They were sitting on their ponies, completely baffled by the manner in which the trail of the rustlers had suddenly "petered out.
In the language of Lincoln he "petered out," and his tall, muscular clerk had to seek other employment.
The saloon-keeper allowed they were footsore a'ready, and kinder petered out.
Trade had petered out; and there would have been as little to leave behind as to carry with him.
Meanwhile the men's talk had graduallypetered out: there came long pauses in which they twiddled and twirled their wine-glasses, unable to think of anything to say.
At the same time Bumpus had been closely observing the actions of the eccentric motor, and was one of the first to discover that it had petered out, giving up the ghost completely, as Giraffe would have said.
The Amanuensis has been ill, and after the above trial petered out.
And it was only taken up, when the proposed volume, BEACH DE MAR, petered out.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "petered" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
