Example sentences for: downs

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

  • English has other such ups and downs: ripping up a house versus ripping down the same structure, for instance, or the hearty Drink it down! instead of Drink it up!

  • You can even apply some ingenious logic to the ups and downs: if you want to pack up more in an already stuffed suitcase, better first pack down what you have in there.

  • Even here, where the locals are used to ups and downs of a personal and business nature, that was considered quite a twofer.

  • But a much larger grouping of coinages bears witnesses to the embryonic pastoral industry: cattle walk, cattle hunting, cattle run, cattle station; stock agent, stock driver, stock establishment, stock horse, stock house, stock hut, stock proprietor, stock property, stock run, stock station; sheep country, sheep downs, sheep establishment, sheep hills, sheep holder, sheep land, sheep master, sheep overseer, sheep owner, sheep proprietor, sheep watchman, sheep yard.

  • Ups and Downs


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