How to Use plateau in a Sentence

plateau

1 of 2 noun
  • The price of gas seems to have reached a plateau.
  • The seabed drops abruptly to a plateau.
    — Literary Hub, 10 Oct. 2025
  • If things break right, this could be his third time reaching the plateau.
    — Allan Mitchell, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2026
  • And for each new model, that plateau gets a bit higher.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 2 July 2025
  • There is no plateau or grace period.
    — Ankur Goyal, Forbes.com, 22 May 2026
  • By the 1980s, Ridge had reached a plateau.
    — Senior Wine Critic, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 Feb. 2026
  • But that didn't reach the three-fourth plateau the measure needed.
    — Armando Salguero Outkick, FOXNews.com, 30 Mar. 2026
  • The result was a tibial plateau fracture in her left leg.
    — Chadd Cripe, Idaho Statesman, 8 Feb. 2026
  • Then, in early 2025, her weight loss hit a plateau.
    — Bethany Brookshire, Scientific American, 6 Feb. 2026
  • The main house, a long, low-slung black fortress clad in wood and glass, hunkers down on a windswept plateau.
    — Mark David, Robb Report, 3 Feb. 2024
  • That plateau may arrive more swiftly, but demand won’t plunge.
    — Jordan Blum, Fortune, 19 May 2026
  • There are deer in those draws, antelope on the plateau, and elk in the mountains.
    — Robert Merchant, Outdoor Life, 1 Oct. 2025
  • The result was something of a content plateau.
    — Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 19 Nov. 2025
  • As the men descended from the main summit plateau, all three veered off-route to the east.
    — Owen Clarke, Outside, 25 Sep. 2025
  • That season marked the end of five straight in which Rask hit the 30-win plateau.
    — Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Feb. 2023
  • Includes roses, bubbles and a seafood plateau.
    — Ana Gutierrez, Austin American Statesman, 5 Feb. 2026
  • This type of player can often reach their upside quite quickly and then plateau.
    — Tony Blengino, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025
  • Where some might see a plateau, Mizzou sees a foundation.
    — Kansas City Star, 12 Dec. 2025
  • The tibial plateau is the upper surface of the tibia that forms part of the knee joint.
    — Sarah Shephard, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2026
  • DeBrusk has now hit the 20-goal plateau three times in his career.
    — Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Mar. 2023
  • One recent morning, garbage trucks roared up the hill to a plateau made of tons of trash and dirt piled dozens of feet high.
    — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 19 June 2023
  • Okamoto should cruise past the 30-homer plateau this year, assuming good health.
    — Andy Behrens, New York Times, 4 May 2026
  • First, China’s growth plateau was a predictable outcome.
    — Jennifer Lind, Foreign Affairs, 12 Dec. 2025
  • An American flag is planted on the plateau, its fabric torn as if to make a point.
    — Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 10 Nov. 2022
  • Up on the plateau overlooking the village, the school and churches are blown to splinters.
    — Jason Motlagh, Rolling Stone, 16 Apr. 2023
  • His favorite part of the wilderness had been a two-day hike from his shack — a plateau with steep ravines and a waterfall.
    — Alex Traub, BostonGlobe.com, 10 June 2023
  • After hitting record high volumes last year, global trade has begun to plateau over the past few months.
    — Tristan Bove, Fortune, 2 Nov. 2022
  • Utley looks primed to charge past the 50-percent plateau this year, in his third go-round on the ballot.
    — Jayson Stark, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2026
  • The company also said that weight loss didn’t plateau, which means patients could lose even more in a longer-term study.
    — Annika Kim Constantino, CNBC, 19 Aug. 2025
  • There’s more to do until the house is move-in ready, but reaching this plateau is very satisfying.
    — Tim Carter, Hartford Courant, 6 June 2026

plateau

2 of 2 verb
  • Sales of computers have plateaued in recent years.
  • Job gains have cooled off, and wage growth seems to have plateaued.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 9 Oct. 2019
  • As the road begins to plateau and bend to the left, find a wide dirt trail on the right.
    — Charles Fleming, latimes.com, 8 June 2018
  • But her numbers have since plateaued, placing her in fourth place in most polls.
    — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 9 Sep. 2019
  • Home prices are also starting to plateau and even drop in some markets.
    — Sydney Lake, Fortune, 21 Sep. 2025
  • Most of them also plateau within 18 months.
    — Tom Roberts, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2025
  • After this point, blood pressure values tend to plateau.
    — Md Published, Verywell Health, 31 Mar. 2026
  • High-speed rail projects have plateaued in many nations as governments balk at their high costs.
    — Wired, 24 Sep. 2019
  • That’s because your body won’t be forced to adapt further, and your fitness and weight will plateau.
    — Lauren Bedosky, SELF, 16 Dec. 2017
  • But in much of the rest of the country, cases have either plateaued or are still rising.
    — Sara Chodosh, Popular Science, 18 May 2020
  • At the same time, population growth among white women has plateaued.
    — Jeremy W. Peters, New York Times, 1 Nov. 2016
  • But with his support seeming to have plateaued, Buttigieg may be looking to shake things up.
    — Mike Hofman, Fortune, 15 Oct. 2019
  • As ride-hail growth has plateaued in recent years, the food venture has grown like a prize-winning pumpkin.
    — Wired, 28 Oct. 2019
  • On and off over 10 weeks, until the end of April, the markets fell, plateaued and fell again.
    — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 22 Jan. 2020
  • While those numbers may plateau or slightly decline this year, the overall trend points upward.
    — Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 6 May 2026
  • The school where one person has become the de facto AI lead is the school that is about to plateau.
    — Dan Fitzpatrick, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026
  • College hockey has been a prime talent source for women's Olympic teams but its growth seems to have plateaued.
    — Helene Elliott, latimes.com, 25 Feb. 2018
  • Results from brighteners can plateau in six months to a year, and older spots may still be visible.
    — Elizabeth Siegel, Allure, 21 June 2017
  • So our relationship plateaued because neither one of us was ready to take that leap and face the struggle.
    — Lisa Fogarty, Redbook, 30 Mar. 2017
  • By the end of February, the number of cases began to plateau.
    — Molly Beck, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 Mar. 2020
  • Demand for cars is either plateauing or slowing, while Brexit and the trade war loom.
    — Washington Post, 21 May 2019
  • Over time a patient's weight loss can plateau, but doctors can go back and re-tighten the stomach--leading to more pounds shed.
    — John Torres, NBC News, 5 June 2017
  • Housing starts, which usually fall before a recession, have plateaued for the past two years.
    — Washington Post, 5 Apr. 2019
  • However, the report highlights that revenue growth can plateau.
    — Dario Sabaghi, Forbes.com, 20 June 2026
  • The group estimates coal use to plateau in 2026 and then slowly decline.
    — Frank Holmes, Forbes.com, 5 Jan. 2026
  • In 2018 that contribution ebbed, as stocks plateaued and then in recent weeks dropped.
    — Greg Ip, WSJ, 31 Oct. 2018
  • As consumers have run out of reasons to upgrade to a new phone each year, sales of Apple's iPhone have plateaued.
    — Xavier Harding, Fortune, 6 Aug. 2019
  • Without that, even a technically clean website with good content will plateau in the rankings.
    — Landon Murie, Forbes.com, 26 June 2026
  • But lately, Warren’s support has plateaued as Buttigieg has vaulted among the front-runners.
    — Sara Burnett and Will Weissert, SFChronicle.com, 4 Jan. 2020
  • But over the last six years, that percentage has plateaued, bouncing between 8 percent and 9 percent.
    — Paula Span, New York Times, 8 Dec. 2017

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