Google decreased use of Meta Descripiton Tag

[PerriCline]

Over the past month or so I have noticed that Google is not using the meta description for my pages but is instead pulling text from the actual page to show on the SERP.  Is Google placing less emphasis on meta descriptions?

[NakulGoyal]

The descriptions you see in the SERPS are tweaked, changed and snippets of text from your page are used and what gets displayed depends on the user's query. Lets say your page is ranking for two keywords. Red Widgets and Blue Widgets. If Google thinks your Meta description is related to Red Widget's, they will use it. For Blue Widgets, if they find something else on the page that might be better, they'll use that.