Sentence examples for downed by from inspiring English sources

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.

Hungary had bee been downed by the Hapsburgs; Kossuth escaped to Turkey.

The apparent threat got Johnson suspended from Twitter, and GotNews.com was briefly downed by hackers.

Officials changed their call, saying Mason had been downed by contact, and gave Tennessee possession.

US officials say they are "99.9 per cent sure" that plane was downed by a deliberately planted bomb.

So he punted the ball to the 17-yard line, where it was downed by center Pete Kendall.

If officials determine that it was downed by Iraqi fire, it would be the first such loss of the war.

Kiev said the jets were downed by a missile launched from Russian territory, and that the pilots had parachuted out.