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Example sentences for "down with"

  • Down, down with him, fifty fathoms down; his struggles grew fainter and fainter, until they wholly ceased.

  • When Mr. Roland came in this morning, and said he was really off, you might have knocked me down with a feather.

  • When I entered the court to-day, you might have knocked me down with a feather.

  • You might have knocked me down with a feather--five years in Lauren's studio in Paris, and three pictures on the line the year he was called to the bar and two of them sold!

  • Down with it, I say, and may the stones of it be used for mending the roads, as my friend William says in his Register.

  • No," said I: "down with them as soon as you can.

  • Then answered David and said to Ahimelech the Hittite, and to Abishai the son of Zeruiah, brother to Joab, saying, Who will go down with me to Saul to the camp?

  • And the angel of the LORD said unto Elijah, Go down with him: be not afraid of him.

  • And he said, My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he is left alone: if mischief befall him by the way in the which ye go, then shall ye bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.

  • And Abishai said, I will go down with thee.

  • Of course I'll go down with you, my dear," said Mrs. Holt.

  • But you could have knocked me down with a paper-knife when he came to me--" "When did he come to you?

  • I laid it down with a fine show of indifference.

  • He said he was, and you might have knocked me down with a straw when he told me he was kin to old Justus Percival.

  • The farmer might have knocked Rodney down with a straw too, if he had had one handy, for the boy was very much surprised.

  • The crowd outside rapidly increased to enormous numbers, and very soon cries of "Down with Condé" were heard.

  • The Abbé's mob ordered her to cry 'Down with Condé!

  • Here and there we heard a growl of "Down with Condé!

  • Out went costly furniture to be smashed into fragments by the howling rioters, and, "Down with Condé!

  • Cultivate thoroughly, and either seed it down with the corn in August, or sow it to barley or oats next spring, and seed it down with clover.

  • If you have a field of clayey or stiff loamy land, break it up in the fall, and summer-fallow it the next year, and sow it to wheat and seed it down with clover.

  • At any rate, I am sure that on my own farm, moderately stiff land, if I was going to plant corn after wheat, I should not seed it down with clover.

  • Make the evening-meal of mutton and house-pigeon, plentifully seasoned and spiced; then take of this electuary with a spoon and wash it down with a draught of boiled date-wine.

  • His face grew white, his eyes were wild, and raising his clenched fist he brought it down with a powerful blow upon the table before him, and exclaimed: "My God!

  • Perhaps you think that will go down with me.

  • Down with Hebert, the inventor of moral complicity!

  • From time to time the shouts, "Down with Guizot!

  • He had been saluted with groans by the 10th Legion, stationed on guard without, and with cries of 'Down with Guizot!

  • I am going off to find the four men who came down with me, see if they are comfortable, and tell them that the general will give them the message to their chief, tomorrow.

  • Look here, Robah, the colonel says that I must go down with a sick party, tomorrow.

  • I don't think we are likely to get fever, so long as we are on the move; though I dare say a good many of us will go down with it, after the work is done.

  • Down with Europe, the land of oppression and cruelty!

  • The tree to which one of the hammocks had been fastened had suddenly broken and let the man down with a bump.

  • Down with faith: down with religion: down with the priests!

  • And it can't be so strong as I reckoned, for when she spoke the word 'marriage' you might ha' knocked me down with a straw.

  • And this kept me in a sweat every mile of the journey, so that when you pointed your gun at me yesterday, as natural as life, you might have knocked me down with a feather.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "down with" 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:
    anxious look; corn starch; crying bitterly; down along; down and; down from; down here; down river; down south; down stairs; down stream; down the; down there; down town; down upon; down yonder; early stage; important article; locomotive engine; note paper; pass that; small band; sweet friend; take great; thou doest; you must come and