Sentence examples for punched down from inspiring English sources

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Rock punched down a couple times in disappointing ways.

She tightened her scarf around her neck, tugged up her coat collar, lowered her head, and walked toward Broadway with her fists punched down into her pockets and her purse clinched under her arm.

During the subsequent soul-searching, many people, while obviously not excusing the killings, described the dead cartoonists as racists and Islamophobes who "punched down" at minorities in cartoons that amounted to hate speech.

As Newman so enthusiastically punched down on these battlers for comedy, McGuire must have been terribly conflicted – what with those same people representing the massive swathe of working class Australia with whom the Collingwood president likes to associate himself.

The upper levels of the Mary King's Close buildings were demolished, and the foundations of the exchange, which later became the City Chambers, were punched down into their cellars and ground floors, bridging the alleyway and swallowing dozens of tenement homes into its own basements.

And Stevenson has been punched down before, he can be got to".

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Don't punch down.

Punching down is one thing.

"Oftentimes, Mr. Trump punches down," she told me.

Do not punch down or knead dough at any time.

Nowadays most people understand those jokes to be slut-shaming, punching down, don't they?

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