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Example sentences for "slow down"

  • And within that forty miles the map showed but two hamlets where it would be necessary to slow down.

  • But the young proprietor of the Darringford Machine Shops began to slow down as soon as he saw that the drab car was in trouble.

  • Presently the engine-room telegraph bell clanged and the Japanese vessel's engines began to slow down.

  • Then, somewhat to Stirling's surprise and to his not altogether complete satisfaction, the cruiser began to slow down.

  • I'll slow down to enable you to keep station.

  • siya muminur sa kurbáda, He didn’t slow down at the curve.

  • B; b4] for liquids to slow down or stop flowing at the source.

  • If we slow down, how shall we ever get anywhere?

  • Slow down it surely was, for the road was so steep and full of stones that Dorothy and the Cowardly Lion had to pick their way with utmost care.

  • Then it was true, what he had heard from the hired girl at Slow Down Ranch: that old Mazarine was to receive six thousand dollars in cash from Orlando Guise by the hands of Burlingame!

  • On the first day of their arrival at Slow Down Ranch, the mother had presented Orlando with a most magnificent Mexican bridle and head-stall covered with silver conchs, and a saddle with stirrups inlaid with silver.

  • He lives over at Slow Down Ranch--got a French name.

  • He thought Joel Mazarine made unnecessary noise as he stamped down the staircase to send a farmhand to Slow Down Ranch; and he also thought that Orlando Guise showed discretion of manner and look in a moment of delicacy and difficulty.

  • As she rounded the point that terminated the cove, however, Nat had to signal, “Slow down.

  • If the weather gets any worse we shall have to slow down.

  • I averaged no more than twenty-five, and as there was hardly any stop to make or traffic to slow down for, this did not mean travelling more than thirty at any time.

  • All at once the engine burst into a wild roar and Lizzie began to slow down.

  • Slow down so that we can see the face of the dam from the Overlook.

  • Helen had started to slow down; but Tom stopped her with a hand on her arm.

  • They began to slow down, too, and the wheels wailed under the pressure of the brakes.

  • Then came a bad stretch and they had to slow down again.

  • At every opportunity Tom let out all the speed he could draw from the motor, but there were many times when he had to slow down.

  • They found the roads fairly good, with bad stretches here and there, which made it necessary for them to slow down.

  • No telling when this misbegotten fog will close in and force us to slow down to half-speed or less--in crowded waters, too!

  • He turned and yelled in the ear of Jules: "Slow down!

  • Passing the engine-room ventilators he heard the telegraph give a single stroke; Mr. Collison had only then recovered from, his astonishment sufficiently to signal to slow down.

  • He could scarcely frame his words intelligibly when he arrived at Slow Down Ranch.

  • A moment afterwards they were all on their way on the road leading to Slow Down Ranch.

  • Come now, didn't you first make up your mind to go to Slow Down Ranch--to Orlando?

  • Then, exhausted from exertion and excitement, the young fireman saw the locomotive slow down not a hundred yards from a stalled train.

  • We will have to slow down to the freights.

  • Then a twist of the left handle-bar caused the Comet to slow down, and he pulled back on the bit.

  • Occasionally he had to slow down to pass a vehicle moving toward Phoenix, but not often.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "slow 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:
    after saying; also speaks; both shores; carry him; child labour; different view; for thou shalt not; general discussion; grain doses; kill myself; learned afterwards; our mind; previously noted; slow cooking; slow degrees; slow down; slow growth; slow movement; slow pace; slow process; slow step; slowed down; slowly and; thinkest thou; though trying; whipped cream