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Example sentences for "brought down"

  • Brought down by Allied warships at Saloniki on May 5.

  • In one day forty German machines were brought down, while the British lost only two.

  • One airship was attacked by an aeroplane of the British Royal Flying Corps and brought down in flames into the sea off the coast of Durham.

  • A German machine, brought down a few hours later near Dunkirk, was supposed to have been the one returning from the attack on London.

  • In Egypt they may often be seen flying over fields of rice in such dense masses that numbers might be brought down at a shot.

  • Death lost its terrors, and when some unhappy victims were brought down to terrify the rest, they saw them die as many see friends depart on a desirable but distant journey.

  • A second, of ball cartridge, brought down many; the rest fled in terror, and were pursued: it is conjectured that fifty fell.

  • The membrane, which appears to be a sheet of the peritoneum of a seal, is stretched over the other side of the hoop, which is beveled on the outside edge, and its edge is brought down to a deep groove 0.

  • It is then carried up to the becket at the toe, brought down and up again, and the end is used to fasten these three parts to the netting with equidistant half hitches--fourteen on the right shoe and thirteen on the left.

  • They are lifted up for a little while and shall not stand, and shall be brought down as all things, and shall be taken away, and as the tops of the ears of corn they shall be broken.

  • And consume thee in all thy cities, and thy strong and high wall be brought down, wherein thou trustedst in all thy land.

  • Let the wicked be ashamed, and be brought down to hell.

  • You will be brought down, and will speak out of the ground.

  • Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol, to the depths of the pit.

  • The wicked is brought down in his calamity, but in death, the righteous has a refuge.

  • Your pomp is brought down to Sheol, with the sound of your stringed instruments.

  • And yet the doctrine now is, not of individuals only, but of the administration, that the wages of American labor must be brought down to the level of those of Europe.

  • Royds always bring a number of illustrated papers which must have been brought down by the Nimrod on her last visit.

  • I have also been discussing and writing about the provisions of animals to be brought down in the Terra Nova next year.

  • We have a little difference of opinion as to whether this morainic material has been brought down in surface layers or pushed up from the bottom ice layers, as in Alpine glaciers.

  • The harp is rested on the bottom of the window frame, and the sash is brought down on the upper board.

  • And other money have we brought down in our hands to buy food: we cannot tell who put our money in our sacks.

  • Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.

  • Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, and the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and the worms cover thee.

  • I would she were in a fit state to be brought down," Prudence said, rather sadly; "for never saw I any one so weak and helpless.

  • Methinks one might better fix it now, ere she be brought down, so that the knocking may not harm her.

  • But this only partly accounts for the result of the experiment; it remains to be explained why the temperature of the ether, while in a state of ebullition, is brought down to the freezing temperature of the water.

  • But if the temperature of the whole body of water be brought down to the freezing point, why is only the surface frozen?

  • Everything else must be left in the coach, to be brought down to us when the roads shall be cleared out.

  • We made arrangements with the station-master that these should be forwarded to us as soon as the stage-coach and the carriage could be brought down.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    added with; bring them; brought about; brought against; brought down; brought forth; brought forward; brought from; brought her; brought here; brought him; brought out; brought over; brought them; brought together; brought unto; great glee; lady herself; little daughter; nourishing food; see page; state organization; terrible prowess; these places; wheat bread; when cool