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Example sentences for "come down"

  • It was the king's daughter, come down to bathe in the river, with her maidens.

  • Then she furnished him with wine and medicines and she sat awhile by his head, after which she mounted and returned to her palace and continued to visit every bazar in quest of her lover.

  • Dost thou not know that pride angereth the Lord and hardeneth the heart and bringeth men to the Fire?

  • Yes; the abolishing of Antichrist, And of this Popish order from our Realm.

  • So it is with the manifestation of the Christian standard of opinion on force and all that is based on force.

  • I cannot prove the need or the harm of governments in general.

  • In warfare men have in all the toil and dangers they endure no other pleasure than that of being conquerors, no sorrow other than that of being conquered.

  • And all these thy servants shall come down to me, and shall worship me, saying: Go forth thou, and all the people that is under thee: after that we will go out.

  • And let them be ready against the third day; for on the third day the Lord will come down in the sight of all the people, upon Mount Sinai.

  • And Gedeon sent messengers into all Mount Ephraim, saying: Come down to meet Madian, and take the waters before them to Bethbera and the Jordan.

  • It is reported that upon this occasion Hannibal said jestingly to his friends: "Did not I tell you, that this cloud which always hovered upon the mountains would, at some time or other, come down with a storm upon us?

  • But, understanding that the conspirators had assembled in the Capitol, and had no further design upon anyone, he persuaded them to come down, giving them his son as a hostage.

  • Come down, dear lad, and give us counsel; and may the Lord help His Church in this great strait.

  • Come down, if you've a Christian heart, come down!

  • Seeing who was below, he drew it in again; not so quickly, however, but that Ralph let him know he was observed, and called to him to come down.

  • When I come down, I'll bring Madeline with me.

  • Everybody happened to know that the London manager had come down specially to witness his or her own performance, and all were in a flutter of anxiety and expectation.

  • But my lady will have to come down to many a want of refinement.

  • She could not have borne to come down in the world--she had such a noble, lofty spirit.

  • I had to come down to reading, writing, and arithmetic; and, in reading the chapter every morning, she always coughed before coming to long words.

  • My servants are up there in their cabin, and I suppose they are too much scared to come down.

  • Give me that thermometer and the tumbler, and when I come down again, I reckon you can fit her out with a prescription just as good as anybody.

  • But the stricken old grandmother trembled to think that these too were the inheritors of their father's shame as well as of his honours, and watched sickening for the day when the awful ancestral curse should come down on them.

  • Tell her to come down at once, and not keep me.

  • To come down as a hawk does on its prey; to pounce; to souse; to swoop.

  • Look at these little putty-faced Philadelphians," he continued, "They ought to come down to my ranch in Cuba and get tanned up.

  • If she were made to come down here, that would be enough.

  • How would you like to come down to Cuba and be a planter, my boy?

  • Could he trust himself to come down to breakfast a free man in the morning?

  • Gregory was thinking of telling them to come down here, only his heart failed him 'cause of the grand way they was dressed.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "come 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:
    come again; come along; come alongside; come among; come around; come before; come between; come bride; come for; come hame; come near; come soon; come tell; come thither; come through; come true; come upstairs; comes about; comes forward; comes from; comes home; external stimuli; had caught; lawn party; said suddenly; then strain