petering out

Five years after it looked as though Danny Welbeck's career was petering out, the 34-year-old sent Albion into the FA Cup quarter-finals.

Analysts who spoke to the Times say two things need to happen for egg prices to stabilize: the bird flu petering out and a decline in hoarding.

But the good news is that conspiracy theories have a way of petering out.

So far, it seems that most, if not all, human H5N1 cases have involved the virus jumping from animals but petering out before spreading to others.

While the force of krump occasionally broke through — these elastic dancers can grab the beat with chest contractions — the show was slack, with wispy scenes, interlaced with speeches of introduction and empowerment, that kept petering out.