Example sentences for: down--and

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

  • Their severed heads look on, wide-eyed, as Elizabeth directs her hair to be shorn--images of her girlhood flashing by as her locks rain down--and then walks weightily to her throne, now a chalk-faced gorgon.

  • Chandler was indeed a heroic publisher--the Times was a mediocre paper when he took it over, a great one when he stepped down--and it would be wonderful if he were reinstated or allowed a say about the paper's fate.

  • The problem with wood pulp is that paper makers have to use acid to break it down--and the chemical never quits working.


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