Example sentences for: downing

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

  • La Repubblica 's editorial, titled "The Little Great King," recalled that Hussein had come to the throne in 1953, when "Stalin was still alive, Churchill still in Downing Street, and Eisenhower still to conclude his first term as president of the United States."

  • Chatterbox would love to see Downing lose her job (and--this is probably too much to hope for--see her boss, Times Mirror chief Mark Willes, get canned, too).

  • In the Daily Telegraph , another hawkish conservative newspaper, political commentator Boris Johnson wrote Wednesday on the op-ed page that all the talk of British Prime Minister Tony Blair as "Blair the hawk" was "a gigantic candyfloss illusion" created by his Downing Street spin doctors.

  • Before 1993, no snowstorm or blizzard had been declared a "major disaster or emergency" by the president (though federal help had been offered in a dozen or so other "winter events" in which additional damage, such as the downing of utility lines, had occurred).

  • She paused outside 10 Downing Street, and smiled: 'Thank you, I'm very well thank you.


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