How to Use drawdown in a Sentence

drawdown

1 of 2 noun
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  • At that point Austin will decide what military support will be sent to the region to assist the drawdown.
    — Oren Liebermann, CNN, 22 Apr. 2021
  • Take steps now to be an informed connoisseur of retirement income drawdown strategies.
    — Steve Parrish, Forbes, 7 Apr. 2021
  • An Army Ranger unit is also expected to be sent to support the drawdown of forces, the officials said.
    — Gordon Lubold, WSJ, 23 Apr. 2021
  • On April 14, Biden made his decision public: The drawdown would proceed, but not so quickly.
    — Los Angeles Times, 21 Apr. 2021
  • Apple's drawdown comes amid broader troubles for tech names in the session, with the Nasdaq Composite sliding more than 1%.
    — Brian Evans,lisa Kailai Han, CNBC, 10 July 2024
  • Unlike other withdrawal plans, the drawdown by Sept. 11 is a hard deadline, not a target based on conditions on the ground, the officials said.
    — Gordon Lubold, WSJ, 13 Apr. 2021
  • Right now, the steroid boost of direct-deposit stimulus checks is waning, and the eventual drawdown of Covid-era unemployment benefits lingers.
    — Oliver Renick, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2021
  • For remote areas like Kandahar and Jalalabad, there may be no public acknowledgement of the drawdown until it is completed.
    — Oren Liebermann, CNN, 22 Apr. 2021
  • The drawdown is equal to about one-third of that total.
    — Valerie Pavilonis, USA TODAY, 8 Apr. 2022
  • The move marked a major step in the drawdown, as the base, which once housed tens of thousands of U.S. troops at the height of the war, was handed over to Afghan forces.
    — Washington Post, 15 Aug. 2021
  • There is concern the drawdown of American troops from Afghanistan could cause the government in Kabul to collapse and the Taliban to return to power.
    — Chandelis Duster and Nicky Robertson, CNN, 25 Apr. 2021
  • Biden, calling the war in Afghanistan unwinnable, set a new deadline of Sept. 11, with the drawdown to begin May 1.
    — Tracy Wilkinson Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 19 Aug. 2021
  • For this reason, the Corps did propose deep and sustained drawdowns at Cougar and Fall Creek dams.
    — Tony Schick, ProPublica, 31 Oct. 2023
  • Biden said he was faced with a choice to follow through with the drawdown or escalate the conflict.
    — NBC News, 17 Aug. 2021
  • Gasoline prices did fall in the weeks after the oil was released, though prices have since eclipsed the levels at the time when Biden announced the drawdown.
    — Josh Boak, chicagotribune.com, 16 Feb. 2022
  • 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
  • That was the third-biggest drawdown since the program began in 2014, Wind data shows.
    — Rebecca Feng, WSJ, 31 Mar. 2022
  • That was slightly lower than the 112.5 billion yuan drawdown in March.
    — Rebecca Feng, WSJ, 18 May 2022
  • The most recent presidential drawdown was the 43rd since the beginning of the war.
    — Artur Galocha, Washington Post, 4 Aug. 2023
  • Kirby decline to speculate on whether the Aug. 31 drawdown of troops would need be be pushed back.
    — Melissa Mahtani, CNN, 14 Aug. 2021
  • Some call for a new crusade against China, and others for a U.S. drawdown in many regions.
    — Emma Ashford, Foreign Affairs, 6 Sep. 2022
  • On the eve of the drawdown, a truck bombing in Logar province south of Kabul killed at least 21 people and wounded at least 91.
    — Washington Post, 8 May 2021
  • Mull said residents there want salmon to thrive and have adapted to the temporary drawdowns the judge ordered in 2021.
    — Tony Schick, ProPublica, 31 Oct. 2023
  • The meeting comes as the White House officially acknowledged the drawdown of troops in Afghanistan.
    — Oren Liebermann, CNN, 30 Apr. 2021
  • The technical definition of a bear market in stocks is a drawdown of 20% or worse from peak to trough.
    — Ben Carlson, Fortune, 14 July 2022
  • Gasoline prices have dropped since the reserve drawdown was announced.
    — Julia Horowitz, CNN, 7 Apr. 2022
  • The sales were the single largest drawdown in the history of the reserve, sending levels plummeting to a 40-year low.
    — Breanne Deppisch, Washington Examiner, 11 May 2023
  • Some have said the drawdown could begin this fall, thanks in part to encouraging job gains from June and July.
    — Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2021
  • The drawdown forced Cubans to apply for visas from the American embassy in Guyana, a trip too expensive for many.
    — New York Times, 3 May 2022
  • That was enshrined in a 2020 peace deal with the Trump administration that paved the way for the drawdown of American troops, the last of whom are supposed to leave at the end of the month.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 18 Aug. 2021
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draw down

2 of 2 verb
  • I drew down my bank account just paying for tuition.
  • No one expects to have to draw down on the reserves from the past.
    — Scott Boeck, USA TODAY, 12 June 2020
  • But as the cold sets in, countries will start to draw down their stocks.
    — Loveday Morris and Evan Halper, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Oct. 2022
  • Then comes the time to start drawing down those savings.
    — Michelle Singletary, Washington Post, 25 Aug. 2023
  • The couple began to draw down on savings to pay their rent and bills.
    — Eliza Fawcett, courant.com, 1 Nov. 2020
  • 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
  • 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
  • By narrowing the strike, the union can draw down the fund over a longer period of time.
    — Max Zahn, ABC News, 29 Sep. 2023
  • As the afternoon drew down, the four of us talked about AI, music, art, motherhood, and Mr. Musk.
    — WIRED, 8 Aug. 2023
  • First, most of the help has come from drawing down inventories.
    — Philip Zelikow, Foreign Affairs, 12 Dec. 2023
  • When the border committee finished its work, the county line was drawn down the center of the valley.
    — Susanne Rust, Los Angeles Times, 20 Mar. 2023
  • All that leads to a complicated picture as to what role China should play in the world’s fight to draw down emissions.
    — Time, 20 July 2023
  • In an effort to draw down carbon at a meaningful scale, people are looking to the ground.
    — WIRED, 25 Oct. 2022
  • Crews will start at Iron Gate and work their way upriver to draw down the remaining reservoirs and then remove the three dams.
    — Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 17 Jan. 2024
  • The size of the gap depends strongly on the strategies that world leaders use to reduce emissions and draw down carbon in the coming decades.
    — Chelsea Harvey, Scientific American, 9 June 2024
  • Russia has not made any new pledges to draw down climate pollution this decade.
    — New York Times, 1 Nov. 2021
  • 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
  • Early this year, companies drew down their stocks, posing a big drag on growth.
    — Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 27 July 2023
  • Some governments will draw down the portcullis or build up the border wall—islands of reaction.
    — James Robins, The New Republic, 23 Sep. 2020
  • Consumers as a whole should be able to draw down this excess savings well past the holiday season.
    — Andrew Duguay, Forbes, 15 Nov. 2021
  • Democrats also agreed to draw down at least another $12.2 billion from the rainy day fund to cover their spending.
    — Taryn Luna, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2024
  • It's happened over the past 20-plus years, a promising snowpack drawn down by warm weather, dry soil or, one year, wind in the high elevations.
    — Shaun McKinnon, The Arizona Republic, 8 Apr. 2024
  • Much of the cost of deploying carbon capture is the investment in the equipment to draw down the carbon dioxide, Deich said.
    — Drew Costley, Fortune, 17 May 2023
  • That left the bank and its competitors with a potential problem: If customers kept drawing down their accounts, the bank may run out of cash to pay them.
    — David Goldman, CNN, 3 May 2023
  • The small scale means the initial shipments leaving the world's breadbasket will not draw down food prices or ease a global food crisis anytime soon.
    — Aya Batrawy, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Aug. 2022
  • The small scale means the initial shipments leaving the world’s breadbasket will not draw down food prices or ease a global food crisis anytime soon.
    — The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Aug. 2022
  • When spending grows faster than income, shoppers are forced to draw down savings or use their credit cards to make up the difference.
    — Scott Horsley, NPR, 1 June 2024
  • Water is being released at nearly 260 cubic feet per second to draw down the reservoir below the crack.
    — CBS News, 11 Apr. 2024
  • The cuts, proposed just 10 days into the new budget year, siphon spending from five agencies and also draw down 10 percent of a state savings account earmarked for specific projects.
    — Erin Cox, Washington Post, 10 July 2024
  • As previously reported by the Free Press, the state report describes the party drawing down money from a federal account in order to make the large loan payment early last year.
    — Paul Egan, Detroit Free Press, 7 Feb. 2024

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