Sentence examples for downed from inspiring English sources

Dressed in a black lace Armani Prive gown which had fashion writers salivating, Blanchett admitted to having "downed a few vodkas" while waiting to hear if she had won her third Golden Globe.

On 18 July, just hours after the MH17 crash, Abbott said: "Some years ago now, an American warship by mistake downed an Iranian aircraft.

It may mean that Russia is preparing to accept that rebels downed MH17 but is now working to show that the Buk system involved did not come from Russia but was captured from Ukrainian forces.

That became impossible by the time I got to the penultimate chapter and found Saint-Exupéry and his companion Prevot downed in the desert, battling against thirst and time under the merciless sun of the Sahara.

The investigation into the crash has turned to Lubitz's background after the disclosure by French prosecutors on Thursday that he appeared to have deliberately downed the plane in a rocky ravine.

The demonstrators in question were general practitioners (GPs), a few of whom downed their stethoscopes and prescription pads in anger at their lot.

Over a thousand driving instructors downed their clipboards and sunglasses to coincide with the local-government strikes.

The Victorian gin palace was for "perpendicular drinking": a glass quickly downed at the bar, standing up, before the stumbling exit.

In the event, the insurgents almost downed an army helicopter carrying the top military commander in Baluchistan.

Tension between Syria and Turkey sharpened after a Syrian missile downed a Turkish aircraft that was said to have entered Syrian air space.

But an American-backed policy of shooting down drug planes was suspended last year, after a missionary's plane was downed by mistake in Peru.