Sentence examples for phrase down from inspiring English sources

The phrase "Down and Out in Beverly Hills" — the title of a 1986 Hollywood farce — has become a widespread reality.

He breaks the phrase down into its syllables, the "-nul-" reminding him of a taut string on an instrument.

At her most charmingly naïve, Petro confesses that the code in her circle for the menacing Southland was the phrase "down there".

This forced the White House and Pentagon to cut the phrase down to coalition, which can be used as both noun and adjective.

Any book of quotations will provide plenty of parallels, and rather grander ones, to that.And if all these are too grand, ask yourself whether Australians would have invented the phrase "down under", with which we Britons describe their place.

In a few places, during the Act II quartet, for one, he dropped out entirely during a few phrases; occasionally he had to take a high-lying phrase down an octave.

The word "pity" is repeated six times in a row, while the phrase "but down, down, down, down I fall" is heard four times.

It's a marvellously evocative moment, which gives new meaning to the phrase "down-at-heel".

The precise click-clack of new heels is a time-honoured method of ensuring that one's entrance does not go unnoticed; the phrase "down-at-heel" refers to worn heels that have gone unreplaced.

The Chancellor has got the art of repeating measures and phrases down to a fine art.

Are his critics right in saying that he squandered his melodic gift, chasing "short phrases" down the musical drain?