We found over 1000 examples of how to use down in an English sentence.
Sentences 26 to 50 of 1000.
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| 26. | I want you to lie down face down on the floor. | |
| 27. | The flaps slide back and down to increase the surface of the wing area. They also tilt down to increase the curve of the wing. | |
| 28. | The rabbit-hole went straight on like a tunnel for some way, and then dipped suddenly down, so suddenly that Alice had not a moment to think about stopping herself before she found herself falling down what seemed to be a very deep well. | |
| 29. | A milk boy, passing on his way to the dairy, happened to walk down the lane which leads from the mews at the back of the hotel. He noticed that a ladder, which usually lay there, was raised against one of the windows of the second floor, which was wide open. After passing, he looked back and saw a man descend the ladder. He came down so quietly and openly that the boy imagined him to be some carpenter or joiner at work in the hotel. | |
| 30. | It has been said there is nothing appertaining to life upon the broad plain. That is hardly true. Looking down from the Sierra Blanco, one sees a pathway traced out across the desert, which winds away and is lost in the extreme distance. It is rutted with wheels and trodden down by the feet of many adventurers. Here and there there are scattered white objects which glisten in the sun, and stand out against the dull deposit of alkali. Approach and examine them! They are bones: some large and coarse, others smaller and more delicate. The former have belonged to oxen, and the latter to men. For fifteen hundred miles one may trace this ghastly caravan route by these scattered remains of those who had fallen by the wayside. | |
| 31. | One summer evening he came galloping down the road and pulled up at the gate. She was at the doorway, and came down to meet him. | |
| 32. | A long black shadow was trailing down the corridor. It was thrown by a man who walked softly down the passage with a candle held in his hand. | |
| 33. | Often starting thousands of miles from the ocean, rocks slowly travel down rivers and streams, constantly breaking down along the way. Once they make it to the ocean, they further erode from the constant action of waves and tides. | |
| 34. | The deeper you go under the sea, the greater the pressure of the water pushing down on you. For every 33 feet (10 meters) you go down, the pressure increases by 14.5 psi. | |
| 35. | Sit down for a minute and calm down. | |
| 36. | “I don’t mind which party runs the country as long as the inflation rate goes down, the price of gasoline goes down, and we have paved roads and access to electricity,” he said. | |
| 37. | Down with the police! Down with autocracy! | |
| 38. | As I walked down Vere Street a brick came down from the roof of one of the houses, and was shattered to fragments at my feet. | |
| 39. | Lia also, with her children, came near and bowed down in like manner; and last of all, Joseph and Rachel bowed down. | |
| 40. | But he said: My son shall not go down with you: his brother is dead, and he is left alone: if any mischief befall him in the land to which you go, you will bring down my grey hairs with sorrow to hell. | |
| 41. | This morning the first thing he said was, 'Where does the dark go, Anne? I want to know.' I told him it went around to the other side of the world but after breakfast he declared it didn't . . . that it went down the well. Marilla says she caught him hanging over the well-box four times today, trying to reach down to the dark. | |
| 42. | Boaz took ten men of the elders of the city, and said, "Sit down here," and they sat down. | |
| 43. | And the Lord said: Cast it down upon the ground. He cast it down, and it was turned into a serpent, so that Moses fled from it. | |
| 44. | If the moon landing was real, they ask, why didn't the lander scatter dust when it touched down? In reality, the lander was traveling horizontally much of the time and the thrusters that controlled its landing were not pointed down. Radiation from the sun also made the dust highly charged and it clung to the moon’s surface. | |
| 45. | And tonight, I think about all that she's seen throughout her century in America — the heartache and the hope; the struggle and the progress; the times we were told that we can't, and the people who pressed on with that American creed: Yes we can. At a time when women's voices were silenced and their hopes dismissed, she lived to see them stand up and speak out and reach out for the ballot. Yes we can. When there was despair in the dust bowl and depression across the land, she saw a nation conquer fear itself with a New Deal, new jobs, a new sense of common purpose. Yes we can. When the bombs fell on our harbor and tyranny threatened the world, she was there to witness a generation rise to greatness and a democracy was saved. Yes we can. She was there for the buses in Montgomery, the hoses in Birmingham, a bridge in Selma, and a preacher from Atlanta who told a people that we shall overcome. Yes we can. A man touched down on the moon, a wall came down in Berlin, a world was connected by our own science and imagination. | |
| 46. | After falling down, Nicolás was left down on the pavement, without the strength to pick himself up. | |
| 47. | Is the letter W an upside-down M or is M an upside-down W? | |
| 48. | "If you trip, you'll fall down. And if you fall down, that will be your downfall", said Arnaud Vannay. | |
| 49. | "Who's that girl?" "Calm down." "Stop telling me to calm down!" | |
| 50. | If you do not bring it down, no one will bring it down. |