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Example sentences for "came down"

  • Do you suppose I came down here on a pleasure trip?

  • Why didn't you spring the lock when you came down?

  • I left it standing open when I came down.

  • The first time I came down to tell you all this, I did not KNOW who Mrs. Staines was.

  • When he had taken care of himself, and got five hundred pounds to play the fool with, then he condescended to remember his errand of mercy; and he came down to Gravesend, to see Mrs. Staines.

  • It was no less than twelve days after our receiving sentence before any were ordered for execution, and then upon a Wednesday the dead warrant, as they call it, came down, and I found my name was among them.

  • I came down to #300, and I demanded that I should publish an advertisement of the particulars in the common newspapers.

  • And in the third year, Josaphat, king of Juda, came down to the king of Israel.

  • And returning from the mount, I came down, and put the tables into the ark, that I had made, and they are there till this present, as the Lord commanded me.

  • And so the victims for sin, and the holocausts, and the peace offerings being finished, he came down.

  • Spread out around the tree and see if you can find where he came down.

  • So I hid in the bushes until they went away, and I came down here to tell Gerald.

  • We heard that Monkey Rae was going to smash the shell tonight, so we came down to catch him, but he got away from us.

  • Soon after, I came down, and the scullion who was waiting for me on the landing begged me to make Madelaine give him half the louis.

  • When the count and his fair wife (who only spoke Italian) came down, I shewed them some polite attentions, and we then sat down to dinner.

  • On the third day he came down by himself to talk with me.

  • Poor Tom has got a dreadful toothache, and I came down to find some creosote for him.

  • When he came down to breakfast the next morning, he was greeted with a general "Happy birthday, Tom!

  • Now it began to rain; the drops soon fell thicker, and at last it came down in a complete stream.

  • At length, perceiving that the Ogre had resumed his original form, he came down again, and owned that he had been very much frightened.

  • When he came down below, the doll in the grass was sitting in a chair dressed very finely and looking still more beautiful.

  • Victoria cut him, and he came down on all fours and danced into the wire fence that encircled the Fairview domain, whereupon he got another stinging reminder that there was some one on his back.

  • I am curious about his career; that's one reason I came down.

  • To tell the truth, I came down to hear that promising protege of yours speak on national affairs.

  • I came down here to see you," he said, and took a firmer grip on the reins.

  • When he came down he had a sealed envelope in his hand.

  • She would wait until he came down, and if he was insolent, well, she could be haughty.

  • He held Lily in much the same way when she came down, an arm around her, his big shoulders thrown back as though he would guard her against the world.

  • It was only because I found the little girls quite starving that I came down.

  • He would not try to put out his hand to me when he came down; but when I went away, he put it through and we had a good hearty shake.

  • The work was pretty well over, when Aubrey, who had just arrived with leave for a week, came down, and made it desultory.

  • The King's son fearing she would do as she said, came down, whereupon she kissed his hands and feet and besought him to do her need.

  • When he saw the ship, he came down to it with a company of his followers and saluting us, bade us welcome and questioned us of our case and our faith.

  • Watson made that suggestion to me as we came down.

  • I saw lights in the cottage as I came down.

  • I came down to see if my coffee was ready.

  • I came down, wrote a brief note to James, stating that after his base and lying sneer he could not expect to find me in the morning still with him, and telling him I had left him for ever.

  • But the stool slipped, and he came down ignominiously.

  • The service was a repetition of that in the morning, and when I came down my host again came forward and presented me with nineteen shillings.

  • However, it was Dunster I came down to make enquiries about.

  • I came down on the chance that the fine weather might have tempted you over to the Golf Club.

  • He came down in a special train on Tuesday night--the night of the great flood--and his train was wrecked at Wymondham.

  • I came down late," Sir Timothy explained, "and I found it more convenient to stay at The Walled House.

  • As a matter of fact, I came down to see him.

  • After all, I came down here to better my acquaintance with my host.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "came down" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    average value; came aboard; came again; came back; came before; came down from heaven; came forth; came from; came hither; came home; came into; came near; came nearer; came over; came rushing; came thither; came towards; came unto; came upon; came vnto; each separate; good angel; had expected; open channel; really great; uninhabited note