Sentence examples for down the wire from inspiring English sources

When encountering a telegraph line, troopers would shin up the poles and pull down the wire, to which Ellsworth would attach his pocket device.

But because of the time taken for trading signals to be sent down the wire, those orders arrive at different stock exchanges at separate times.

Masked by a heat haze, Los Angeles is the genesis of approximately 92% of the American cultural references sent down the wire, yet the city is still too American for British people to fully comprehend.

Then, in the middle of a nearby demonstration, students carrying nothing more than guitars and Lebanese flags tore down the wire and rushed the village.The Israelis, obviously unwilling to shoot unarmed youngsters, watched from their base in a ruined Crusader castle above the village as a three-day party unfolded below.

Every month a truck would come down the road and tear down the wires.

"This is coming down to the wire".

"It came down to the wire".

"We're down to the wire now.

The negotiating went down to the wire.

"It'll go down to the wire".

It went down to the wire.