Example sentences for: downie

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

  • This theory singles out current Executive Editor Downie for abuse, but complacency took root as early as 1981, when the Post 's cross-town competitor, the Washington Star , folded, allowing the fat beast to diddle all it wanted without paying a price.

  • The boldest Post stroke in recent years came this spring when Downie dethroned Kaiser as managing editor and appointed Steve Coll, a 39-year-old Pulitzer Prize-winning whiz, who most recently served as Sunday magazine editor/publisher.

  • On the news side, Post Executive Editor Leonard Downie Jr. boasts he's so bias-free that he doesn't vote.

  • Meanwhile, the 56-year-old Downie is now seven years into the job.

  • In the past decade, Rosen has been much pilloried by journalists for his diagnosis and prescription, most notably by editorial-page editor Howell Raines of the New York Times and Len Downie, executive editor of the Washington Post . But daily newspapers in Wichita, Detroit, San Jose, Columbus, Norfolk, Charlotte, and elsewhere have lit their candles from Rosen's flame and subscribed to his four-step cure, which holds that journalists should:


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