Example sentences for: down

How can you use “down” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Moreover, I, for one, should like to know the source that pins down to California the expression so low he could sit on a cigarette paper and hand his feet over the edge: given no gloss, does this refer to low depressed, low degraded, or low abject?

  • Stroll along the market until you reach Konigsplein and take a left down Leidsestraat.

  • So her advice has two parts: First, when you are greatly troubled with a problem you should write it down in the form of a letter--which you may, if you wish, address to Prudence.

  • A drive down Sunset can be dangerous, as the billboards touting the latest movies and records may make it difficult to keep your eyes on the road.

  • The reader wins because he is right--it is up to the writer to ensure that the reader should not be given any False Scents . Here are two additional ones to the four examples Fowler gives that cause a reader to go down the wrong track in a sentence, ending in a sort of double-take:


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