Example sentences for: downie

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

  • Only after Gore hung up did Downie realize that there is no "right side up" or "upside down" when you are looking at a sphere from outer space ...

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

  • 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.

  • When Donald Graham took over as publisher, he picked Downie as the editor who would help steer the paper away from the Georgetown elites and toward the masses, away from national competition and straight at the suburban dailies.

  • 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.


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