How to Use peaks and valleys in a Sentence

peaks and valleys

plural noun
  • The stock has had its shares of peaks and valleys.
    — Jay Woods, CNBC, 18 Dec. 2025
  • There’s not a lot of peaks and valleys in his game.
    — Scott Powers, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Your whole career is peaks and valleys.
    — Zack Sharf, Variety, 15 May 2026
  • Baseball is a game of highs and lows, hots and colds, peaks and valleys.
    — Nathan Ruiz, Baltimore Sun, 22 Mar. 2023
  • But there are still plenty of peaks and valleys with Salaün.
    — Roderick Boone, Charlotte Observer, 31 Oct. 2025
  • What are the peaks and valleys of dating throughout the year?
    — Jonquilyn Hill, Vox, 27 Dec. 2024
  • On yields, the past year saw peaks and valleys , sometimes in usual places.
    — Jeff Cox, CNBC, 3 Jan. 2025
  • My job is important to my team but has big peaks and valleys in terms of workflow.
    — R29 Team, refinery29.com, 6 Sep. 2024
  • Life goes by so quickly with so many different ups and downs and peaks and valleys.
    — Emily Longeretta, Variety, 20 Jan. 2023
  • But his body sways evenly, a hand mapping the vocal peaks and valleys.
    — Hanif Abdurraqib, The New Yorker, 17 July 2023
  • The peaks and valleys of Panahi’s awards season have been intense.
    — Yohana Desta, Vanity Fair, 5 Feb. 2026
  • Your side hustle’s sales history is full of peaks and valleys.
    — Megan Sauer, CNBC, 31 Oct. 2024
  • Frese loved watching stars evolve through the inevitable peaks and valleys of a four-year career.
    — Childs Walker, Baltimore Sun, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Day-to-day, entrepreneurs are faced with fiscal peaks and valleys that can either make or break their brand.
    — Jasmine Browley, Essence, 19 May 2024
  • My biggest takeaway from this film is that every career has peaks and valleys.
    — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 June 2023
  • So strap in, because the ride could get awfully bumpy, with peaks and valleys abounding.
    — Cnbc Pro Staff, CNBC, 4 Feb. 2025
  • But construction is dependent on jobs and projects, which means there are peaks and valleys of work.
    — Ricardo Torres, Journal Sentinel, 6 June 2024
  • Careers have their peaks and valleys, and motherhood has its peaks and valleys.
    — Addie Morfoot, Variety, 19 June 2024
  • However, the flu season is expected to have peaks and valleys for the next few weeks.
    — Julie Washington, cleveland, 30 Dec. 2022
  • The laptop's plastic build quality has its peaks and valleys.
    — PC Magazine, 28 Mar. 2025
  • His long career of peaks and valleys is fertile ground for any genre, director, or actor.
    — Brady Gerber, Vulture, 16 Dec. 2024
  • Cream or milk would do that as well, but the yogurt smoothes out the peaks and valleys, and then give it all a lightly tart, tangy finish.
    — Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 11 Nov. 2023
  • Trump and Romney have had many peaks and valleys in their relationship.
    — Jack Birle, Washington Examiner, 13 Sep. 2023
  • The key for Richards, like so many of his teammates, is eliminating the peaks and valleys in his play.
    — Roderick Boone, Charlotte Observer, 27 Feb. 2024
  • Homes with one or more pets may also notice pet hair clinging to the peaks and valleys created by the texture.
    — Timothy Dale, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 Apr. 2026
  • That has not always been enough, especially given the peaks and valleys of doing it on his own terms.
    — Mike Vorkunov, New York Times, 16 June 2026
  • Your mean blood sugar could appear perfectly fine while the peaks and valleys quietly take a toll.
    — Allison Palmer, Sacbee.com, 7 Apr. 2026
  • But the winger has been prone to peaks and valleys, especially earlier in his career.
    — Conor Ryan, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Aug. 2023
  • Love is a topic Kem knows well, having explored its nooks, crannies, peaks and valleys in song for more than two decades.
    — Brian McCollum, Detroit Free Press, 2 Apr. 2023
  • This year's Tigers have gone through peaks and valleys with one of the younger rosters in the SEC.
    — Tom Murphy, Arkansas Online, 23 Nov. 2022

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