16 example sentences using down.
Down used in a sentence
Down in a sentence as a noun
Let's break down some of the copy for this app:Prompt is a clean, crisp, and cheerful SSH clientWhat does that mean?
Maybe Jeff is too far down the rabbit hole to realise this, but most people don't know what programming even looks like.
The problem I'd gotten chewed out for trying to surface but been told "won't fix" all the way up and down the chain of command.
Programming is breaking a problem set down, thinking step by step through it, thinking of edge cases, and making it work.
Down in a sentence as a verb
Yet somehow, I'm incredibly sad, as it seems that too many companies go down this road.
When that calmed down and another officer came by to drop off someone else, I told him what had happened and his only response was "so?
Hiding important text off the screen, coloring the important text a light grey, even when the text is visible it is far down the right side in a small font.
You might also consider merely greying out comments that have not yet been endorsed, as currently happens to down-voted comments.
Down in a sentence as an adjective
They lie about download numbers, about download size, about number of software actually installed and about their connexions.
We'd be strolling down the street during a beautiful summer sunset, and she'd be holding my hand with one of hers, and with the other she'd be scrolling through Instagram.
Document everything, save all of your emails, chat logs, download and archive all Github comments on everything that you've worked on, as well as everything else you can.
This should make a lot of entrepreneurs happy, as there will continue to be a lot of top-down management-driven products that, if history shows, will continue to be market failures.
Down in a sentence as an adverb
We should be throwing the bums out-- from Obama down to the local state congresspeople or local sheriffs and judges who fail to take actions overturning this, or who themselves participate in this.
If you're delaying on this point out of some idea of wanting to "try to fix things first" or "not wanting to be the bad guy," you're just shooting yourself in the foot and downing blood thinners to keep the wound from clotting.
In every one of those ******** articles, someone had to marshall real arguments, chase down real sources, and in many cases defend those arguments against both bona fide Wikipedia contributors and also sockpuppets of the subjects of the article.
Why, when these leaders are allowed to lord it over us as they see fit, should they suddenly develop scruples in gathering information that only serves to enhance their power to do what we are already letting them do without so much as a peep of principled opposition?Privacy is in significant peril, and it is a serious loss when Groklaw goes down over this issue.
Down definitions
soft fine feathers
(American football) a complete play to advance the football; "you have four downs to gain ten yards"
English physician who first described Down's syndrome (1828-1896)
See also: Down
(usually plural) a rolling treeless highland with little soil
fine soft dense hair (as the fine short hair of cattle or deer or the wool of sheep or the undercoat of certain dogs)
See also: pile
drink down entirely; "He downed three martinis before dinner"; "She killed a bottle of brandy that night"; "They popped a few beer after work"
See also: kill
eat immoderately; "Some people can down a pound of meat in the course of one meal"
bring down or defeat (an opponent)
shoot at and force to come down; "the enemy landed several of our aircraft"
See also: land
cause to come or go down; "The policeman downed the heavily armed suspect"; "The mugger knocked down the old lady after she refused to hand over her wallet"
improve or perfect by pruning or polishing; "refine one's style of writing"
being or moving lower in position or less in some value; "lay face down"; "the moon is down"; "our team is down by a run"; "down by a pawn"; "the stock market is down today"
extending or moving from a higher to a lower place; "the down staircase"; "the downward course of the stream"
becoming progressively lower; "the down trend in the real estate market"
being put out by a strikeout; "two down in the bottom of the ninth"
understood perfectly; "had his algebra problems down"
See also: mastered
lower than previously; "the market is depressed"; "prices are down"
See also: depressed
shut; "the shades were down"
not functioning (temporarily or permanently); "we can't work because the computer is down"
filled with melancholy and despondency ; "gloomy at the thought of what he had to face"; "gloomy predictions"; "a gloomy silence"; "took a grim view of the economy"; "the darkening mood"; "lonely and blue in a strange city"; "depressed by the loss of his job"; "a dispirited and resigned expression on her face"; "downcast after his defeat"; "feeling discouraged and downhearted"
spatially or metaphorically from a higher to a lower level or position; "don't fall down"; "rode the lift up and skied down"; "prices plunged downward"
See also: downwards downward downwardly
away from a more central or a more northerly place; "was sent down to work at the regional office"; "worked down on the farm"; "came down for the wedding"; "flew down to Florida"
paid in cash at time of purchase; "put ten dollars down on the necklace"
from an earlier time; "the story was passed down from father to son"
to a lower intensity; "he slowly phased down the light until the stage was completely black"
in an inactive or inoperative state; "the factory went down during the strike"; "the computer went down again"