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Example sentences for "down before"

  • When Pharao shall say to you, Shew signs; thou shalt say to Aaron: Take thy rod, and cast it down before Pharao, and it shall be turned into a serpent.

  • I thought we were binding sheaves in the field: and my sheaf arose as it were, and stood, and your sheaves standing about bowed down before my sheaf.

  • Jallalo'ddin says, that when they had finished any piece of building, they pulled it down before night, if they were not employed in something new.

  • The men of Arcadia go down before him; down go the Etruscans, and you, O Teucrians, invincible by Greece.

  • Omens and oracles of gods go down before them, and all under malign influence clamour for awful war.

  • The Treble must now be hunted up behind the Bells, where it is to lie twice together, and then to hunt down before them, where it must lie twice, and then hunt up again as before.

  • It left him no choice but to go down before them.

  • However that may be, you carry out your purposes, and you make everything go down before them.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "down before" 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:
    comparatively late; continually increasing; down again; down along; down and; down below; down from; down house; down river; down south; down the; down there; down town; down upon; down yonder; former president; good luck; good sir; human labor; human virtue; late hour; more striking; print system; stopped abruptly; tight compartments; when they came out