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Example sentences for "down and"

  • She was glad of the aching of her heart that dragged her thought down and numbed it.

  • You had to go down and talk to Mrs. Waugh.

  • She spread out its roots and pressed it down and padded up the earth about it with her hands.

  • You'd kick me down and stamp on me if you thought it would please Mamma.

  • Forsooth, so weary were we with sorrow, and our hunger was now quenched, that we laid us down and slept at once, and forgat our troubles.

  • And when the divorce was given he called me down and told me that Fanny Montrose was a free woman and no blame to her in the sight of the law.

  • Me, Bucky Greenfield--to go down and out on account of a bug--a little squirmy bug!

  • All right, I'll just go down and speak to him.

  • Well, we must go down and walk a piece," he said.

  • He tries to do it; he says he'll bring me down and humble me, and he puts me to just the hardest, meanest and dirtiest work, on purpose!

  • This subject race," said he, stamping firmly, "is down and shall stay down!

  • Come on down and I'll show you the high buildings.

  • I can't go down and tend to this," said he.

  • If you've got anything to kick on, put it down and sign it and send it on.

  • But once you're down and out no one wants to see you any more--see?

  • And that moment the boy fell down and died.

  • And again, I laid me down and slept, and awaked, because thou art with me.

  • Down and out of eroded ravines with perpendicular sides he makes excellent wide trails, tramped hard, on easy grades, often with zigzags to ease the slant.

  • They quirk their heads sidewise or down and stare at an intruder with the most comical air of skeptical wonder.

  • Over stones we went that sent us feet into the air, down and out of shallow gullies that seemed as though they would jerk the pole from the vehicle with a grand rattlety-bang, every one hanging on for his life.

  • And when the boat would roll down and, rolling, threaten to dump them all on the floor, they would grab the table and yell "Whoa!

  • She gripped Jan's coat and Jan gripped a chair that was screwed to the floor; and then the deck rolled far down and Jan's chair came loose, and both were thrown across the saloon.

  • A gentleman may go down and take a dip alone--it had better be at an early hour--and the ladies of the house may be heard to apologize for his eccentricity, as if his fondness for the water were abnormal and quite out of experience.

  • But you can go down and look if you want to, and it won't cost you a cent.

  • At the same moment the steamer slowed down and began to turn to assist the wounded.

  • We could see how the cooling crust had been lifted and split and turned over by the hot stream underneath, which, continually oozing from the rent of the eruption, bore it down and pressed it upward.

  • Now Robin Hood is to Nottingham gone, With a link a down and a down, And there he met with the proud sheriff, Was walking along the town.

  • Now Robin Hood is to Nottingham gone, With a link a down and a day, And there he met with a silly old palmer, Was walking along the highway.

  • Now Robin Hood is to Nottingham gone, With a link a down and a day, And there he met a silly old woman, Was weeping on the way.

  • By going into rocky, useless valleys and building the dams that checked the rushing rivers that were constantly robbing much rich soil from the surrounding country and carrying it down and out to sea.

  • Its mighty leap, however, ended three feet short of the mark, for the trap chain grew taut, jerked it down and threw it violently upon its back.

  • It was enough for three days; but there and then they sat down and consumed it all at a single meal, not, it must be added, without some subsequent and just pangs of indigestion.

  • Offered to sing "The sky is bright," accompanying himself on the front-door, if I would go down and help in the chorus.

  • If the majority didn't do something the minority wanted 'em to, then the people were to burn up our cities, and knock us down and jump on our stomachs.

  • You go down and try to preach without a license and they put you up.

  • She was delicate, you know, and one afternoon she was layin' down and I was sittin' there fannin' her with a peafowl fan.

  • When any one set it down and said, "Table, be covered!

  • I threw it down and unfolded it in haste, and then, with a beating heart, flew to the broken wall.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "down and" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    been engaged; captive balloon; distinct vision; down again; down along; down here; down house; down south; down stream; down the; down there; down town; down upon; down with; fellow citizens; first secretary; here reproduced; horses were; its surface; large portions; local administration; mile west; more intense; noble life; rural police; social worker