Example sentences for: downsides

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

  • After all, even this architectural utopia has turned out to have its downsides: onerous zoning and architectural restrictions, rules about what you can and cannot do with your garden, a general atmosphere of community-mindedness that can grate on a soul, if that soul (like Truman) starts to develop a live-free-or-die approach to things.

  • Clinicians have overestimated the downsides, while seriously underestimating the benefits, of condition-specific online patient support communities.

  • New writing technologies have their downsides, inevitably.

  • Among the downsides of mail-voting: Extra costs and the potential for corruption--ineligible, dead, or nonexistent voters can wriggle onto the voting rolls.

  • Note: I'm not saying all these things were without their complications or downsides, or that there wasn't an element of self-interest or calculation involved (in the CP's advocacy of free speech, for example, which didn't extend to Trotskyists, whom the CP was glad to see investigated by the govt.


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