How to Use level off in a Sentence

level off

verb
  • The storm should slow down by mid-week and level off in power.
    — Richard Tribou, orlandosentinel.com, 26 Sep. 2021
  • That's leveled off now in recent weeks.
    — CBS News, 21 Dec. 2025
  • And in the last decade, the gains in both appear to have leveled off.
    — Ruchir Sharma, Foreign Affairs, 15 Feb. 2016
  • Home prices have largely leveled off.
    — Giulia Carbonaro, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Since then, the pace of layoffs has leveled off some, but the numbers are still high.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 19 June 2023
  • Food prices rose sharply in 2020, and have yet to level off across the board.
    — Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Winter has set in, so the fighting in Ukraine has leveled off a bit.
    — Lolita C. Baldor, Fortune, 15 Dec. 2023
  • But Gilliland wonders whether the rural land rush might level off.
    — Dallas News, 1 Mar. 2022
  • Even as inflation rates level off, prices of food and drink basics have stayed high.
    — Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 16 Mar. 2024
  • Rent and housing prices are leveling off but remain high.
    — Seth Klamann, Denver Post, 14 Jan. 2026
  • Your senses will be heightened, and pleasure levels off the charts.
    — Jennifer Adams, StyleCaster, 28 May 2025
  • The best way to prevent brown patch is to cut back on watering in the fall and level off any low spots now.
    — Calvin Finch, ExpressNews.com, 11 June 2020
  • Much will depend on whether new cases continue to spring up or level off.
    — Allison Morrow, CNN, 28 Oct. 2024
  • That also helped level off the pressure on the stock market from the bond market.
    — Stan Choe, Los Angeles Times, 8 Oct. 2024
  • In the meantime, prices for both new and used vehicles have begun to fall or level off.
    — Tom Krisher, Fortune, 16 Apr. 2022
  • Even as inflation begins to level off, the cost of eggs is soaring.
    — Austin Fuller, Orlando Sentinel, 19 Jan. 2023
  • The benefits level off after about two hours, and decline around five hours of free time per day.
    — Time, 9 Jan. 2023
  • This drop might level off at some point, simply because most things regress to previous norms.
    — Jay Caspian Kang, New Yorker, 5 May 2026
  • The private-jet world seems to be leveling off from its record highs during the Covid years.
    — Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 21 Nov. 2024
  • Over the past year, prices have risen considerably, though that rate of growth has begun to level off.
    — cleveland, 12 Dec. 2021
  • Overall, home prices have mostly leveled off over the past two years, as new construction has picked up.
    — Mike Winters, CNBC, 31 Dec. 2025
  • Rents have leveled off and in some markets have decreased modestly.
    — Curbed, 25 Oct. 2023
  • Grocery prices have leveled off in the past three months and were unchanged from May to June.
    — Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 13 July 2023
  • After the deal was announced, the stock shot up 31% but those gains quickly leveled off.
    — Krystal Hur, CNN, 7 Mar. 2024
  • The local tax impact would level off in future years as state funding rises.
    — Rory Linnane, Journal Sentinel, 11 Jan. 2024
  • Myers says that this raises the question of whether birth rates will level off now or continue to fall.
    — Scott Horsley, NPR, 12 June 2026
  • But well-being and happiness started to level off at around two hours and then to decline around five hours.
    — Linda Carroll, NBC News, 10 Sep. 2021
  • Cases seem to be finally leveling off now, but much misery still lies ahead.
    — Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 12 Jan. 2026
  • By next year, if prices level off, more voters might give Biden credit for the recovery.
    — Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep. 2023
  • Thus state revenues would often spike upwards, only to level off or decline.
    — Dan Walters, Mercury News, 19 May 2026

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