How to Use drawdown in a Sentence

drawdown

1 of 2 noun
  • There will be a reset, there will be a check at some point, there will be a drawdown.
    — Chloe Taylor, CNBC, 3 Oct. 2025
  • But Gama says a drawdown doesn't mean customers come back right away.
    — Ubah Ali, CBS News, 26 Feb. 2026
  • Rutte confirmed the drawdown but played down its impact.
    — Jessie Yeung, CNN Money, 18 June 2026
  • Homan did not specify when a drawdown of agents in the state would begin.
    — Alaa Elassar, CNN Money, 2 Feb. 2026
  • Even if pumping were to stop, the drawdown would continue to spread.
    — AZCentral.com, 5 Dec. 2019
  • The drawdown uncaps the springs by lifting the weight of the reservoir off them.
    — David Bauerlein, Florida Times-Union, 9 Feb. 2026
  • Look at what happened earlier this month for clues to how sharp those drawdowns can be.
    — Michael Khouw, CNBC, 24 June 2026
  • Gasoline prices have dropped since the reserve drawdown was announced.
    — Julia Horowitz, CNN, 7 Apr. 2022
  • Biden said he was faced with a choice to follow through with the drawdown or escalate the conflict.
    — NBC News, 17 Aug. 2021
  • March saw one of the largest drawdowns on global oil inventories on record.
    — Chloé Farand, semafor.com, 27 Mar. 2026
  • The drawdown is among the strongest consequences yet of those fraying ties.
    — Gordon Lubold, WSJ, 11 Mar. 2018
  • But there’s a reason dip-buyers aren’t jumping in during the drawdown.
    — Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 29 Mar. 2026
  • Homan later announced a drawdown of the surge in officers.
    — Ted Johnson, Deadline, 5 Mar. 2026
  • Still, analysts warned that an array of forces could limit or delay the drawdown in prices.
    — Max Zahn, ABC News, 22 June 2026
  • This can lead to rapid gains as measured in USD, but also drawdowns.
    — Alexander S. Blume, Forbes.com, 10 June 2025
  • The drawdown has been criticized even by some close allies of the president.
    — NBC News, 6 Dec. 2020
  • Investment managers on the whole posted their worst monthly drawdowns in four years last month.
    — J.d. Capelouto, semafor.com, 7 Apr. 2026
  • The hedge is working against that aggregate drawdown, not just covering one spread.
    — Nishant Pant, CNBC, 9 June 2026
  • Still, the gasoline drawdown is the more surprising statistic.
    — Robert Rapier, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026
  • The ecosystem has been stress-tested through brutal drawdowns and long crypto winters.
    — Roomy Khan, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Palantir also has a history of sharp drawdowns.
    — Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025
  • This was the most significant drawdown.
    — Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 26 Jan. 2026
  • The Afghan drawdown is front and center right now, but no one knows how this chapter will end, or what the next chapter will be about.
    — Brian Stelter, CNN, 19 Aug. 2021
  • Three weeks later, the drawdown across major names passed $100 billion.
    — Carrie McCabe, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026
  • The recent drawdown is only part of the reason the SPR is at such a low point.
    — Jeff Wagner, CBS News, 23 June 2026
  • The drawdowns are orderly, and prices have risen, but not explosively.
    — Robert Rapier, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026
  • Bitcoin retraced some of its losses on Tuesday, just one day after a steep drawdown.
    — Liz Napolitano, CNBC, 2 Dec. 2025
  • The matrix below illustrates the arithmetic across a range of peak gains and post-lockup drawdowns.
    — Joel Shulman, Forbes.com, 17 May 2026
  • The next-largest drawdowns were clustered around 30 million barrels, and that was 15 years ago.
    — Robert Rapier, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026
  • During a drawdown, the state imposes a catch-and-release order on bass fishing.
    — Jeffrey Schweers, The Orlando Sentinel, 25 Feb. 2026

draw down

2 of 2 verb
  • I drew down my bank account just paying for tuition.
  • Stockpiles have been drawn down.
    — Thomas Wright, The Atlantic, 1 May 2026
  • But as the cold sets in, countries will start to draw down their stocks.
    — Loveday Morris and Evan Halper, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Oct. 2022
  • Sat shuddering in my seat as the lights drew down.
    — Sally Jenkins, The Atlantic, 15 Feb. 2026
  • No one expects to have to draw down on the reserves from the past.
    — Scott Boeck, USA TODAY, 12 June 2020
  • The couple began to draw down on savings to pay their rent and bills.
    — Eliza Fawcett, courant.com, 1 Nov. 2020
  • The goal was to build up large trust fund reserves in advance to be drawn down later.
    — Alexis Simmerman, Austin American Statesman, 5 Mar. 2026
  • The two badass guys are facing off in the town square and going to draw down on each other.
    — Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Apr. 2022
  • Maybe the central bank is drawing down reserves.
    — Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 14 Mar. 2026
  • Russia has not made any new pledges to draw down climate pollution this decade.
    — New York Times, 1 Nov. 2021
  • The problem is more acute for savers who expect to draw down from their portfolio soon.
    — Darla Mercado, Cfp®, CNBC, 26 Mar. 2026
  • By narrowing the strike, the union can draw down the fund over a longer period of time.
    — Max Zahn, ABC News, 29 Sep. 2023
  • Early this year, companies drew down their stocks, posing a big drag on growth.
    — Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 27 July 2023
  • First, most of the help has come from drawing down inventories.
    — Philip Zelikow, Foreign Affairs, 12 Dec. 2023
  • When the going gets tough, Bud can draw down on a mean streak a mile wide to push him across the finish line.
    — Manouk Akopyan, Los Angeles Times, 29 July 2023
  • The goal isn’t to grow a large sum of money in an investment account and then draw down from it to live on.
    — George Acheampong, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
  • Baltimore has since been approved to draw down $6 million for that year.
    — Emily Opilo, Baltimore Sun, 23 Feb. 2024
  • Meanwhile, the state has continued to draw down on its reserves to make its budgets work.
    — The Editorial Board, Oc Register, 13 Jan. 2026
  • Ask residents to conserve or draw down savings?
    — Austin Corona, AZCentral.com, 6 Nov. 2025
  • The trustees report that several changes will cause the trust fund to be drawn down faster than was expected last year.
    — Bob Carlson, Forbes.com, 19 June 2026
  • In an effort to draw down carbon at a meaningful scale, people are looking to the ground.
    — WIRED, 25 Oct. 2022
  • Consumers as a whole should be able to draw down this excess savings well past the holiday season.
    — Andrew Duguay, Forbes, 15 Nov. 2021
  • Some governments will draw down the portcullis or build up the border wall—islands of reaction.
    — James Robins, The New Republic, 23 Sep. 2020
  • For most people, that means drawing down their retirement savings.
    — Miami Herald, 24 Feb. 2026
  • The mayor’s also proposed drawing down from the city’s reserves.
    — Josephine Stratman, New York Daily News, 25 Mar. 2026
  • Strong auto sales may have led dealers to draw down their stockpiles, Goldman Sachs said.
    — Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 30 Jan. 2025
  • In the early fall, country banks drew down balances in New York to pay farmers for their crops.
    — Greg Iacurci, CNBC, 13 Sep. 2024
  • The film served as a perfect primer on what would happen should the world’s nuclear powers draw down on each other and shoot.
    — al, 8 Mar. 2022
  • The city found the $12 million allotted for that was not being fully drawn down this year.
    — Noah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, 21 Jan. 2026
  • Carryboy adds a leisure battery so the living amenities are not drawing down the drive battery at camp.
    — New Atlas, 30 Mar. 2026

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