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Down in a sentence

Sentence examples for down. Learn how established writers used the word in their sentences. Learn how to imitate them to express your idea.

Down the creek boys.”

He’s down in the swamp.

Liz looked down at her book.

His father looked down at him.

Bill reached down the whisky bottle.

They struck down toward the orchard.

He squatted down and bathed his knee.

“Let’s cut down that way,” Nick said.

He laid the log down and picked up the pan.

The wind was blowing straight down the lake.

He sat down on the floor beside Nick’s chair.

Bill came down with a pair of heavy wool socks.

Some of the whiskey ran down on his shirt front.

Dick put the three axes down on the little dock.

Then three more came over further down the wall.

Nick turned his head and looked down at Rinaldi.

He set down his suitcase and knocked on the door.

“You go down after him,” said Maera, “he hates me.”

The others went down and took the bottles with them.

They sat down in the big chairs in front of the fire.

His original plan had been to go down home and get a job.

Bill took down the two shotguns from the rack on the wall.

Dick Boulton walked around past the cottage down to the lake.

Dick picked up the axes and Eddy took the saw down from the tree.

“The birds will lie right down in the grass with this,” Nick said.

A steep sandy road ran down the hill to the bay through the timber.

The blood had flowed down into a pool where his body sagged the bunk.

She walked over to the edge of the dock and looked down to the water.

Nick went back and lay down with his face in the blanket by the fire.

They laid Maera down on a cot and one of the men went for the doctor.

He took down his drink as if it were a drop in the bottom of a glass.

Now she can marry somebody of her own sort and settle down and be happy.

He had noticed while looking into the fire that the fire was dying down.

If you call me Doc once again, I’ll knock your eye teeth down your throat.

He came over and sat down beside her on the blanket.

We sat down at a table under a big tree and the king ordered whisky and soda.

They sat down in the shelter of the warehouse and Jim pulled Liz close to him.

“Let’s take the guns and go down to the point and look for your dad,” Nick said.

They tried to hold him up against the wall but he sat down in a puddle of water.

When she saw the wagon coming down the road she felt weak and sick sort of inside.

Marjorie dropped the line overboard and watched the baits go down through the water.

He had so much equipment on and looked awfully surprised and fell down into the garden.

He kneeled down in the corner in front of the locker and brought out a square-faced bottle.

“We’ve got to beat them down,” whispered Daisy, winking ferociously toward the fervent sun.

When they fired the first volley he was sitting down in the water with his head on his knees.

The others went on ahead of him down to the lake shore where the logs were buried in the sand.

He went over to the edge of the track, down the little slope to the water and washed his hands.

Nick had swung on to the freight train when it slowed down for the yards outside of Walton Junction.

Troops went by the house and down the road and the dust they raised powdered the leaves of the trees.

From Smith’s back door you could look out across the woods that ran down to the lake and across the bay.

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