Sentence examples for downshift right from inspiring English sources

Pull the left lever and you downshift, right is for upshifts.

Downshift right before passing someone.

The way it works is that you can toggle the shift lever left for downshifts or right for upshifts, and the transmission is specifically designed to hold a gear right up to redline, so there's no back-end loosening upshift just as you happen to be scorching through the apex of a hairpin turn.

We've seen this before: Cars like the Ferrari 575M on our list have clutchless manual gearboxes, derived from Formula 1-style systems, that let you shift via paddles that frame the steering wheel (pull the left paddle for downshifts, the right for upshifts).

It's hard to downshift when your right hand is otherwise occupied.

As you brake into the corner, you press the clutch with your left foot and downshift with your right hand.

For Ainsworth, it means being able to descend the Laramie Range without ever putting a foot on the brake pedal, controlling his speed almost entirely by downshifting into the right sequence of 18 gears.

Tick the left paddle and the car downshifts; grab the right and the car upshifts.

Acceleration is brisk if not scintillating, but highway passing is as simple as downshifting and planting your right foot.

Twisting open the throttle makes the rear end rise somewhat and the bike twitches to the right slightly on downshifts.

For my first couple of downshifts, I kept rolling my right foot from the brake pedal onto the throttle out of habit.