Example sentences for: downfall

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

  • The regular Clinton-bashers the president's imminent downfall now that he has been revealed as a "traitor" by selling satellite technology to China.

  • Democrats, too, lamented his downfall, even as they milked it to illustrate why Clinton shouldn't be made the next victim of the "politics of personal destruction."

  • While students would not be deterred from trying to bring down another unpopular leader even by threats of military force, "there is no longer the strong national consensus that existed in the days immediately prior to Mr Suharto's downfall."

  • Never mind that Clinton was unaccountably loyal to Morris himself after his self-induced downfall.

  • "So great was the inequity of Nixon's downfall that future historians may well conclude he would have been justified in allowing events to take their course and in subjecting the nation to the prolonged paralysis of a public impeachment, which at least would have given him the opportunity to defend himself by due process of law.


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