Sentence examples for downed tools from inspiring English sources

Said Benson: "Next morning, the housecleaning unions downed tools and nearly shut down the paper".

It is natural that they should have downed tools now.

Coal miners in several areas have downed tools.

At the cigar factory in Santa Clara, all the ladies downed tools to inspect her.

Inevitably, given the deteriorating political climate, workers downed tools across the country.

Builders on top of the Bundestag had downed tools and got out their smartphones.

Though successful, though well liked and well paid, Richard Stark had simply downed tools.

So the VHTs downed tools, as people say here, and have not worked since.

It's as if even the world's decay has downed tools and given up.

Electricity, phone and bank services were disrupted as hundreds of thousands of workers downed tools.

On May 7th, production halted at more than 20 companies as 20,000 workers downed tools.