Sentence examples for be downed from inspiring English sources

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be downed

verb

To drink or swallow, especially without stopping before the vessel containing the liquid is empty.

  • He downed an ale and ordered another.

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The wine cries out to be downed immediately.

These short measures should then be downed quickly.

Overhead electrical lines might be downed, and trees would probably fall onto exposed tracks.

It had to be downed right away; the liquid gets funky quickly.

The language on the small label expressly instructs that it be downed in one go.

Newton Haven had twelve, and a pint of beer had to be downed in each one.

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More drinks were downed.

Another was downed at the 10.

Drinks have been downed, resolutions made.

More threatening problems were downed wires and precariously hanging branches.

Tools were downed in Toulouse and Angers on June 10th.

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