| The second, a wasting contagion, produces an entropic narrative of slow dying, finally petering away into ignominious extinction. |
|
| All of the images are on white grounds, with the gesso petering out as it reaches the edges of the canvas. |
|
| The communal disturbance continued for a couple of weeks before petering out. |
|
| Elsewhere in the city, however, the convulsions of anarchy appeared to be petering out. |
|
| That argument went in circles for a while before petering out in non-resolution. |
|
| But when I looked up, further downstream, I could see the river narrowing, petering out. |
|
| The events of their communities marking the passage of each year were petering out as young people left for the capital cities. |
|
| Saints' impressive season had looked to be petering out only for it to set alight as they ran amok against the FA Cup finalists. |
|
| Just as the fortunes were petering out on the Bonanza and Dawson Creeks, word came of fabulous gold discoveries in the wilds of Northern Ontario. |
|
| All these golden nuggets of wisdom come from The Reality TV Handbook, a new tome dedicated to the lowbrow television genre that is showing no signs of petering out. |
|
| Small wonder that adoptions from Russia have been petering out over the past five years. |
|
| The game looked to be petering out to a drab draw, until Aidan McCarron, the flying Mary's full-forward, was wrestled to the ground inside the square. |
|
| Some relationships ebb away, petering to their end. |
|
| Here the land is dry and sandy, the sky a great blue bowl over the low hills, the scrub petering out into white sand beaches fringed with pohutukawa and shining flax. |
|
| Near Gloucester, the advancing water overcomes two weirs, and sometimes one in Tewkesbury, before finally petering out. |
|
| An unlikely 100-year-long affair is finally petering out. |
|
| Soon after, Tim's work at a glass company began petering out, too. |
|
| But rather than petering out, the virus seems to be ramping up. |
|
| Her research showed that wells were petering out faster than expected. |
|
| This great project was in danger of petering out as an also-ran. |
|
|
|
| To prevent the initiative and the resulting discussion from petering out, the initiators are now endeavouring locally to win over broader sections of society to their vision. |
|
| Moreover, there is no sign yet that this trend is petering out. |
|
| The crisis was necessary to effect the breakthrough, so that the vitality and passion which had increasingly been petering out could find from within an opening out into life and flower there. |
|
| Perhaps they are now Labour's to keep – but the Liberal Democrat advance in the north was already petering out before Gordon Brown called the general election and the Lib Dems did their deal with the Tories. |
|
| What started as a great effort ended up petering out to nothing. |
|
