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Example sentences for "rode down"

  • At Ruffin's I took off my coat, put on a straw hat, hoisted an umbrella, and in the seeming garb of a farmer examined the shore, rode down to the river and watered my horse near a war steamer.

  • As no signs of an advance had been made, and as none could be attempted until after the return of the flag of truce, I rode down to where Gen.

  • Early this morning I rode down to army headquarters and bade Johnston good-by.

  • Polk sent for me and told me that he would start for Enterprise at once, and we rode down to the depot together.

  • I found that army in the very act of moving, and we rode down to Williamsport in a buggy, and were present when the leading division crossed the Potomac River by fording it waist-deep.

  • As he rode down to Camelot: And from his blazoned baldric slung A mighty silver bugle hung, And as he rode his armor rung, Beside remote Shalott.

  • His broad clear brow in sunlight glowed; On burnished hooves his war-horse trode; From underneath his helmet flowed His coal-black curls as on he rode, As he rode down to Camelot.

  • All in the blue unclouded weather Thick-jewelled shone the saddle-leather, The helmet and the helmet-feather Burned like one burning flame together, As he rode down to Camelot.

  • I rode down to Elizabethtown Point, a place famous in the annals of the Revolution.

  • After breakfast I rode down to Danube, to visit the residence of General Herkimer while living, and the old Castle Church near the dwelling-place of Brant in the Revolution.

  • We rode down to Gregory's Point, from which I sketched Tryon's landing-place, pictured on page 413.

  • The bridle bells rang merrily As he rode down to Camelot: And from his blazoned baldric slung A mighty silver bugle hung, And as he rode his armor rung, Beside remote Shalott.

  • His broad clear brow in sunlight glowed; On burnished hooves his war horse trode; From underneath his helmet flowed His coal-black curls as on he rode, As he rode down to Camelot.

  • All in the blue unclouded weather Thick-jewelled shone the saddle leather, The helmet and the helmet feather Burned like one burning flame together, As he rode down to Camelot.

  • The bridle bells rang merrily As he rode down to Camelot: And from his blazon'd baldric slung A mighty silver bugle hung, And as he rode his armour rung, Beside remote Shalott.

  • But Rhoda's father had not arrived at this rendezvous when the little cavalcade rode down to the encampment.

  • Two hours past noon the party rode down a broad green slope into a well-watered valley.

  • I rode down to Dent; we rode down to the place and did--what there was to be done.

  • Hampton, as we rode down in the elevator and hopped on a 'bus to go up-town.

  • Well," I remarked, as we rode down in the elevator, "that was clever.

  • Kennedy withdrew from the room and, instead of going back to Shirley's, rode down in the elevator to find the night clerk.

  • Kennedy thanked him and together we rode down in the next elevator, parting with Page at the hotel entrance.

  • Then he died, and we rode down to avenge them all.

  • We began to meet dogs as big as Newfoundlands, that attacked our unmounted Zeitoonli, refusing to be driven off with sticks and stones, and only retreating a little way when we rode down on them.

  • Somewhere about noon we rode down a gorge into the village of El Oghlu.

  • Then I rode down to telephone and they burned it.

  • That afternoon he rode down to the post-office.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rode down" 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:
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