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Example sentences for "showdown"

Lexicographically close words:
shoves; shoving; show; showcase; showd; showe; showed; shower; showered; showering
  1. You fixin' on havin' a showdown with the captain, Hatch?

  2. I has me a showdown with anyone what gits too big for his breeches, Jas'.

  3. If it ever came to a showdown with Black Doctor Tanner, a trap from which he couldn't free himself, there was still this way.

  4. In a way, I was glad the showdown had come.

  5. I needed any knowledge I could get, to add a feather-weight to my side of the balance when the showdown came.

  6. They were not cowards, nor was he, but he had had too much experience with such people to be deluded into believing that, when the showdown came, they would think of anything but their own precious skins.

  7. He knew the others would side against him and that if it came to a showdown they would snuff out his life as a man does the flame of a candle.

  8. There will be a showdown some day, and don't you forget it.

  9. It's about what we may expect of the people when they're denied a showdown by men at the head of public affairs.

  10. And you can't make much of a showdown in the dark.

  11. We'll just cover up all evidence of who was ridin' this hoss, drift into Showdown and eat, and then ride along up north and collect that reward.

  12. Showdown was a rendezvous for that inglorious legion, "The Men Who Can't Come Back," renegades who when below the line worked machine guns for whichever side of the argument promised the more loot.

  13. The Spider's preparations for leaving Showdown were simple enough.

  14. Whether Pete returned to Showdown or not was none of Malvey's affair.

  15. Sheriffs of four counties seldom disturbed the place, because a man who had got as far south as Showdown was pretty hard to apprehend.

  16. Pete simply wanted to vacate Showdown until such time as he might return safely.

  17. Nor did this displease the autocrat of Showdown in the least.

  18. There'll be hell to pay if Showdown gets wise to what happened to Bull Malvey," said the deputy, who recognized the dead outlaw.

  19. In Showdown men said that she would as soon knife a man as not.

  20. Showdown boasted some fifteen or eighteen low-roofed adobes, the most pretentious being the saloon.

  21. And it was significant of Young Pete's descent to the lower plane that he should consider Showdown safe at any time.

  22. The spider of the web-weaving species who leaves his web, invites disaster unless he immediately weaves another, and The Spider of Showdown was only too well aware of this.

  23. He had not come to Showdown to consort with rustlers.

  24. Immediate political results of the showdown were victory for one side and defeat for the other side.

  25. Then he'd have a two-gun showdown with those men like Sawtell and Lombard and the worthless cousins.

  26. When and if the showdown came, after he had found the murderers he sought, it would probably be a case of kill or be killed.

  27. I'll ride into the Basin, have a showdown talk with Cavendish, and meet you later in our cave in the Gap.

  28. One thing, Harry was sure right when he said that when it comes to a showdown a scout is a scout--I have to admit it.

  29. This thing has come to a showdown and we've got to recognise it.

  30. I told Henry that it's a showdown and that he's to get ready and start right away.

  31. I wouldn't advise you to come back--nor worry any further about exposing Mr. Larmon, unless you want to force a showdown that will place some very interesting details connected with the life of Doctor Crang in the hands of the police!

  32. He needed that cold composure a little longer since it was to be a showdown now.

  33. You'll find now that there'll be some one else besides you and Barjan out for that coin--and when the showdown comes it won't be either you or Barjan that gets it!

  34. But--I may as well own it--my principal reason for hoping for a decisive showdown straightaway was that I felt sure I could see my way through an affair of that kind, even with so cool and resourceful a hand as I knew Allen to be.

  35. I hoped that he wasn't going to disappoint me in the matter of bringing things to a showdown on his arrival in Sydney.

  36. The showdown was near and Slim felt cool and ready for anything that might happen.

  37. Chapter Twenty-Four Showdown The sky was clear that night and the trail through the Cajons was easy to follow.

  38. We're going to have a showdown with Nels Anderson," said Joe grimly.

  39. Stevens made the mistake of backing Plekhanov when the showdown came.

  40. The baron would be up in arms if he found a dozen of his men massacred on the outskirts of Bari, and we don't want a showdown at this stage.

  41. As far back as I can remember I'd hated to force a showdown with people who trusted me and believed in me.

  42. Even the latter circumstance could be like having a finger on a whole set of advantages when the showdown between human beings and androids finally comes.

  43. For in that way the showdown comes against another kind of slime that desecrates the form of man!

  44. And this was the morning that the showdown would come.


  45. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "showdown" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    antagonism; antipathy; antithesis; collision; conflict; confrontation; contradiction; contradistinction; contraposition; contrast; crunch; disagreement; discrepancy; hostility; inconsistency; opposition; perversity; polarity; repugnance; settlement; showdown; skirmish