Sentence for down | Use down in a sentence

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  • I will go down. (10)
  • Let us sit down. (4)
  • Down fell her hair. (10)
  • He swallowed it down. (10)
  • But do not be cast down. (4)
  • And tears ran down her cheeks. (8)
  • Christian came down for dinner. (8)
  • Let me help you down, Aunt Mary. (9)
  • Must I go down to the Court to-morrow? (8)
  • I have to go down to the City, I think. (10)
  • He refused to see me; I sat down to wait. (8)
  • He sat down on a bench and shut his eyes. (8)
  • From that time Mr. Crawford sat down likewise. (4)
  • I see your husband down there with his father. (8)
  • I will drive down to this address you give me. (10)
  • With sore heart, indeed, he went down to dinner. (8)
  • She, too, looked pale and dragged down by the heat. (8)
  • She saw him sit down, and her mother rising to answer. (8)
  • A saw seemed to be drawn up and down between her ribs. (12)
  • They have cut you down from two bottles to two glasses. (10)
  • Clara plumped down on him, enveloped him and kissed him. (10)
  • You go under dark arches, and down dark stairs and alleys. (2)
  • She bent down over these flowers till her veil touched them. (8)
  • Mrs. Pendyce bent down, and took a white rose in her fingers. (8)
  • Then pressing his hand down, he smoothed and stretched his leg. (8)
  • She was leaning on the windowsill, staring down into the street. (8)
  • But though she advances two or three steps, she does not sit down. (8)
  • Tod put the beetle down and Billy got off his foot to tread on it. (8)
  • It makes me feel like screaming, like just lying down and screaming. (12)
  • Lavender sat down in his study to drink the tea which he found there. (8)
  • The deplorable sound that came sent Emilia sinking down with a groan. (10)
  • I wanted to set the house on fire and burn it down and have my revenge. (12)
  • Everything that could be taken down has been taken down. (9)
  • For a moment he thought she was going to break down, refuse to leave him. (8)
  • And, leaving his host, he crossed the room, bowed, accosted her, and sat down. (8)
  • When he brought down his head again, it was to perceive the approach of Clementina. (9)
  • She sits down on the window-seat, and having opened her book, sniffs at the flowers. (8)
  • Derek opened the telegram, dropped it, and sat down beside his valise on the shiny sofa. (8)
  • Almost at the same moment he saw her coming up the walk toward him from far down the avenue. (9)
  • The new glow of resolution seemed suddenly to have died down in her heart, and left her cold. (8)
  • Old Jolyon avoided this, which did not suit his mood, and made down the hill towards the pond. (8)
  • To what end did the river wander up and down; and a human river flow across it twice every day? (8)
  • If I could get hold of him, you two could go round together and take down its aesthetic aspects. (9)
  • He fell on his knees and clasped her skirts all round, drawing his arms down them several times. (10)
  • They made sure that he was nowhere about the church, and then started together down the terraces. (9)
  • Down went the heads of the poplars, the river staggered in its leap, the vale was shuddering grey. (10)
  • And a fit of such chilly shuddering seized her that she crept under the eider down to regain warmth. (8)
  • She was put down in Camden Place; and Lady Russell then drove to her own lodgings, in Rivers Street. (4)
  • He rose to put the key into the door, and his son stepped down from the little porch to the brick walk. (9)
  • He knelt down before her and she took his head between her slim hands and pressed her mouth against his. (5)
  • It drew sustainment from the dead hand in his grasp, and cowered down to the earth claiming all we touch. (10)
  • His face was very pale; and the moment he stood still drops of perspiration began coursing down his cheeks. (8)
  • His hat was crammed down now, and his face very determined, but his lips still had something of that smile. (8)
  • Mrs. Nicholas, or some other member of his precious family would be there very likely, prancing up and down. (8)
  • He had come to Bury Street, and, while he passed up it, felt a queer, weak sensation down the back of his legs. (8)
  • In front of a long high southerly wall on which were trained peach-trees the two walked up and down in silence. (8)
  • And for a long time, on the thick soft carpet which let out no sound of footfall, he paced up and down, thinking. (8)
  • And yet he knew, and she knew, that they were only waiting to see whether Fate would turn her thumb down on them. (8)
  • Merthyr directed his observation to a regiment of Austrians marching down the Corso Venezia to the Ticinese gate. (10)
  • March went down to breakfast not quite so early as his wife had planned, and left her to have her coffee in her room. (9)
  • Then they went down, paid their reckoning, summoned their chauffeur, and drove through the night along the road to Rome. (12)
  • It was no pleasant reflection that the rain would be down before he could build up anything like shelter for horse and man. (10)
  • From its sleeping body the supreme wistful spirit had emerged in dark loveliness, and was low-flying down there, tempting her. (8)
  • He ran down the street, hotly pursued, and, darting out into the traffic, threw himself under a motor-car going at some speed. (8)
  • I was always sensitive to the maltreatment of books; I could not bear to see a book faced down or dogs-eared or broken-backed. (9)
  • A piano-organ far away was grinding out a waltz; and on an hydrangea tub, under the drawing-room window, he sat down to listen. (8)
  • Late one afternoon toward the end of her week at Mildenham, Gyp wandered again into the coppice, and sat down on that same log. (8)
  • Looking at shut eyelids when you love the eyes beneath, is more or less a teazing mystery that draws down your mouth to kiss them. (10)
  • Geologists tell us that the great valleys were made by the alluvial deposit washed down from the hills and mountains by the streams. (3)
  • Drawing five shillings from his pocket, he held them over to Sedgett, and told him to drive down to his chambers, and await his coming. (22)
  • So the Americans made up their minds to swoop down upon Canada and capture it before further English troops could come to its assistance. (19)
  • Farther down the line there were more runabouts, and they were driven by wives freshly dressed, who were expecting package-laden husbands. (13)
  • Mrs. Pendyce walked down the little path, past the ruined fountain with its three stone frogs, and stood by the first green door and waited. (8)
  • These are usually levied upon the ticket wagon just before the evening performance or upon a pole wagon as the tents are being pulled down. (21)
  • Over the rose-bush Miss Naylor peered down at her; and though she was obliged to stand on tiptoe this did not altogether destroy her dignity. (8)
  • In like manner, years before, in his youth, he had gone down to the sea, and there had known something of this mysterious sensation of renewal. (13)
  • Although the weather was warm, the two windows, contrary to the custom which gives the dead plenty of air, were closed and the blinds drawn down. (1)
  • Yews, junipers, radiant beeches, and gleams of the service-tree or the white-beam spotted the semicircle of swelling green Down black and silver. (10)
  • She had her thoughts, and went down to Redworth at the breakfast-table, marvelling that any husband other than a madman could cast such a jewel away. (10)
  • He put down his tumbler, and deliberately struck a match; then with even greater deliberation he lit a gold-tipped cigarette…. Shelton was no inexperienced play-goer. (8)

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