Sentence examples for the downer from inspiring English sources

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the downer

noun

A negative drug trip.

  • Normally those pills give me a boost, but last night they gave me a downer

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That's the downer with real life".

The downer, in terms of artistic calibre, is Fosse's dialogue.

However, the downer is that Bartlett has not managed to hone all this.

After the downer of Sunday's defeat, he deserves some down time.

But yes, there is the downer of disgraced referee Tim Donaghypeddling a book and giving the N.B.A. heartburn.

THE DOWNER CHANNEL NBC, tonight at 8 30 (Channel 4 in New York) Right now it might seem that every channel is "The Downer Channel," but it's also the name of a new half-hour comedy-sketch show.

For now, the downer is the price: $2.95 a gallon on average compared with $2.05 for regular unleaded.

How many has not been decided, although more than half a million animals fall into the downer category each year.

Even if only liberals loved Biden, there's a lot to be said for firing up the base after the downer of a performance President Obama delivered last week.

In my memory, the seventies began in an atmosphere of antic nihilism — Mad, "ratfucking," Richard Pryor — and ended on the downer of "malaise" and the hostage crisis.

The downer scenes of infighting are somewhat ameliorated by the closing sequence: the band's much-loved rooftop performance of "Get Back" and several other songs.

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