I guess the bookkeeper up above will credit us with all the times we've tried to do the square, even if we Petered out before we'd made good.
"Garrison's Finish A Romance of the Race-Course"
W. B. M. Ferguson
The battle of Arras Petered out into small engagements and nagging fighting when on June 7 the battle of Messines began.
"From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917"
Philip Gibbs
Then they gave out that the lode had Petered out and they threw it overboard and everybody with it.
"Peter A Novel of Which He is Not the Hero"
F. Hopkinson Smith