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'down' in a sentence

Learn how to use 'down' with 20 example sentences.

down adjective

: extending or moving from a higher to a lower place

: becoming progressively lower

: being put out in a game of baseball

: understood perfectly

: lower than previously

: shut

: not functioning (temporarily or permanently)

: filled with melancholy and despondency

: being or moving lower in position or less in some value

down noun

: soft fine feathers

: (American football) a complete play to advance the football

: (usually plural) a rolling treeless highland with little soil

: fine soft dense hair (as the fine short hair of cattle or deer or the wool of sheep or the undercoat of certain dogs)

down verb

: drink down entirely

: eat up completely, as with great appetite

: bring down or defeat (an opponent)

: shoot at and force to come down

: cause to come or go down

: improve or perfect by pruning or polishing

down adverb

: spatially or metaphorically from a higher to a lower level or position

: away from a more central or a more northerly place

: paid in cash at time of purchase

: from an earlier time

: to a lower intensity

: in an inactive or inoperative state

lie down sit down break down go down put down calm down cut down fall down get down upside down slow down come down
  • Turn down the volume, please.
  • The sun went down behind the mountains.
  • Why did you cut down that tree?
  • She wrote down her phone number.
  • Are gas prices going down?
  • Let's sit down somewhere.
  • All the apple trees were cut down.
  • The rich sometimes look down on the poor.
  • We sat down on a bench to talk.
  • She turned down my request.
  • I sat down next to him.
  • Just don't look down.
  • Please write down your date of your birth.
  • Please write down what he says.
  • Why did you turn down their offer?
  • Write it down so you won't forget.
  • They haven't cut any trees down.
  • The old man fell down on the ground.
  • The server is down again.
  • Could you write that down?

    • Words related to 'down'

    below downwards downward low

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