Sentence examples for town down from inspiring English sources

I would have burned that town down, like in "Carrie".

Do you feel like you're letting your home town down by being so pale on television?

"You have to fight for what you believe in, but you can't tear the town down," she says.

In the contest last June, when she won by only 538 votes, her Conservative opponent's pledge to burn the town down may well have cost him the seat.

As the long, mean days of summer go by, the Depression grinds the town down, and the hopes that sustain the characters turn to dust.

They stayed at a lodge on the edge of town, down by the river, by the former train station where the outbuilding had burned.

Over the years of watching "The Voice," we've heard profiles of small town, down-on-their luck kids and watched them come on the stage, defying their past and creating a brighter future for themselves in front of our eyes.

Tells about fishing among the wrecks that lie at the bottom of harbor-approaches; a of dumping-grounds for excavations and town-down buildings.

Gyllenhaal stars alongside Hugh Jackman in Prisoners, a thriller concerning the disappearance of two young girls in small-town, down-at-heel America.

It's the reverse of the "tendency in conservation to take a town-down, deterministic approach," says Pablo Granados, who oversees Rare's work in Belize.

The authors selected two national studies (bottom-up and town-down approaches) that had estimated the total cost of diabetes with a health service perspective [ 23, 24].