Example sentences for: downfall

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

  • My memory is my downfall.

  • "Given the inequity of Nixon's downfall, historians may yet determine that he would have been justified in allowing events to take their course and subjecting the country to a prolonged process of impeachment, which would have given him the chance to defend himself by due process of law.

  • And in the arc that connects the two one can read the downfall of what was once a sustaining faith.

  • Having successfully and rather strenuously dodged prosecution himself, Nixon had volunteered to walk into a courtroom and testify to help someone he believed had triggered his own downfall.

  • The play recounts Wilde's downfall, says USA Today 's David Patrick Stearns, "with the inevitability and much of the monumentality of a Greek tragedy."


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