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!

  • Of course, most ups and downs function as simple opposites, as in uptown versus downtown .

  • The experts point out that it is not age alone that determines a Chinese antique’s value — the dynasties of the past had their creative ups and downs.

  • 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.

  • We had our ups and downs in those days, but Urban is very self-determined and motivated, and we got through it.


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