Crossword-Solution: PETERING 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 11

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Petering p. pr. & vb. n. of Peter

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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
AEAR
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CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with PETERING (5)

Since they took to wearing clothes they've been petering out, and dying of dirt and assorted diseases.
Arizona Nights Stewart Edward White 2008
For if It did not volve and revolve on Itself, It would peter out at one end or the other, and the image of this petering out no man with his mental apparatus can conceive.
Inn of Tranquility and Other Essays John Galsworthy 2004
Them Russians has such a habit of petering out.' "The Russians are doing splendidly, however, and they have saved Italy.
Rilla of Ingleside Lucy Maud Montgomery 2003
Imagine our joy, then, when on August 3d, the day we discovered the petering out of Goose Creek, some fresh meat came our way.
The Lure of the Labrador Wild Dillon Wallace 2003
There is no accounting for it, but the result has thrown out my calculations, and here we are little more than 100 miles from the base and petering out.
The Voyages of Captain Scott Charles Turley 2006

Quotes with PETERING (3)

I keep following this sort of hidden river of my life, you know, whatever the topic or impulse which comes, I follow it along trustingly. And I don't have any sense of its coming to a kind of crescendo, or of its petering out either. It is just going steadily along.
William Stafford
Like someone excitedly relating a story, only to find the words petering out, the path gets narrower the further I go, the undergrowth taking over.
Haruki Murakami Kafka on the Shore
The tunnel of winter had settled over our lives, ushered in by that great official Hoodwink, the end of daylight saving time. Personally I would vote for one more hour of light on winter evenings instead of the sudden, extra-early blackout. Whose idea was it to jilt us this way, leaving us in cold November with our unsaved remnants of daylight petering out before the workday ends? In my childhood, as early as that, I remember observing the same despair every autumn: the feeli…
Barbara Kingsolver Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
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Appears in: NY Sun.

Used 1 time in crossword archives (2003).