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Example sentences for "downtown"

Lexicographically close words:
downriver; downs; downstairs; downstream; downthrow; downtrodden; downturn; downward; downwardly; downwards
  1. Then he rushed downtown and greeted his bride-to-be in his lawyer's office.

  2. Among the imposing buildings downtown is the Y.

  3. I want your help to get a woman out of Penfield's new downtown house!

  4. Through the open gates of the iron-railed, old, downtown park, where the elect once took the air, they strolled and found a quiet bench.

  5. A week after the announcement the two sat on the same bench in the downtown park, while the fluttering leaves of the trees made a dim kinetoscopic picture of them in the moonlight.

  6. I bet you right now he been downtown dar all day makin' money han' over fist, des ez fast ez he can rake it in.

  7. Bimeby, atter he had his supper, he say, 'I seed Miss Vallie downtown ter-day.

  8. Mother wanted some things from Harrison's, so I came downtown to get them for her.

  9. Helen was downtown that afternoon on an unimportant shopping errand.

  10. She had been--she came downtown after breakfast--of course, shopping.

  11. She turned toward a downtown lunchroom, and was held at the crossing of Fifth Avenue and one of the thirties idly watching the crowd of cars that delayed her when she saw Warren in his car.

  12. Rachael felt his constraint in the car, and for very shame could not make it hard for him when he suggested that he should go downtown again, to look in at the club.

  13. As they rolled smoothly downtown the passing throng might well have envied the complacent little figure in coffee-colored madras with the big heron feather in her hat.

  14. But she woke smiling, with all the horrid visions of the past few days apparently blotted out, and she and Warren went gayly downtown to get steamer tickets, and buy appropriate frocks and hats for the spring heat of Bermuda.

  15. When they met downtown for dinner there was always the little ceremony of finding the florist, and all the operas this winter were mingled for Rachael with the most exquisite fragrance in the world.

  16. When the day is fully born and downtown alive once again, there will be other wholesale markets, more sedate-looking affairs in rooms that have been built for the purpose by the traffic departments of the railroads.

  17. Some of the big manufacturers downtown are organizing a bank, and it looks as if it was going to be a pretty solid sort of institution.

  18. Downtown is still more deserted, if that is possible, than when we first saw it three hours ago.

  19. The passenger cars were apt to be hauled by horses from some downtown depot through the centre of the street to an "outer depot" at the edge of the town where the locomotive replaced the horses.

  20. They strolled about the campus, went downtown and had luncheon together, all three outwardly calm in the traditional Crittenden manner, in spite of the emotion boiling under the surface of their little family party.

  21. Miss Wentworth's father was attending the annual banquet of the American Philological Association and the young people, left to themselves, had dined downtown at the Lafayette.

  22. Why it was abandoned I never knew, but it stands downtown on one of the principal squares, absolutely deserted, its long dun-colored facade an eyesore to passers-by.

  23. The Uruguaya brewery is on the Calle Yatai, to the west of the center of the city, but nearly two miles from the downtown business section.

  24. The downtown business streets of Antofagasta are paved with asphalt and work is now under way to pave the whole city.

  25. Their mansions, the pride of Chile, are not located on show places like the Alameda or in what we would call the fashionable suburbs, but are situated on those downtown streets which fringe the business section.

  26. This avenue is essential for Santiago for it affords a breathing space for the overpopulated city as the parks are quite a distance from downtown and the Plaza de Armas is nearly always crowded during the heat of the day.

  27. So many were the acceptances that a downtown hall had been taken; the floor was more than filled, and in the gallery sat a block of servant girls, more gorgeous in array than the ladies below whispering excitedly among themselves.

  28. News of this marvel of efficiency and propriety was discussed in every household, and not only so but in barber-shops and other downtown meeting places mentioned.

  29. On his way downtown the next morning Abe met Leon Sammet, senior member of the firm of Sammet Brothers.

  30. For the rest of the day it rained in a steady, tropical downpour, and when Abe came downtown the next morning the weather had moderated only slightly.

  31. I hope not," Abe replied; and for the second time that day he left his place of business and boarded a downtown L train.

  32. And, anyhow, Rothschild, you could make it more money if instead you stayed here you would go downtown to Henry D.

  33. So me get up five o'clock this morning and go downtown and buy one for two dollar, too.

  34. That feller Fixman never got downtown in his life before nine o'clock.

  35. If you're going downtown on the L I'll go with you.

  36. Here I got to come downtown about them capes, and my whole store's full of people.

  37. I have a business downtown and could not come around until to- night to tell you that she will be back to-morrow if you will take her back.

  38. Mrs. deForest Caswell was an attractive woman verging on forty, a chance acquaintance at a shoppers' tea room downtown who had proved to be an uptown neighbor.

  39. Besides, she was wondering how a man with the fight of his life on his hands could find time to lunch downtown even with Stella.

  40. I have noticed that you are more active downtown than--" "Oh, it is because I speculate.

  41. As the cab whirled through the now nearly deserted downtown streets, he reached over in sheer admiration and caressed her hand.

  42. It was this way: Larry and I wanted to go downtown and have a little fun, but neither of us had any cash in hand.

  43. The old fellow indicated--he must have been nearly eighty--sat eating corned beef and cabbage in a little booth in a certain delightful, greasy old chophouse in downtown New York.

  44. Their reluctance to lunch or dine with him downtown stamped them in his mind as something most admirable.

  45. It was evident that they disdained carriages and street cars, for they struck off downtown with the stride of athletes.

  46. Having written the notice advertising the silver bracelet as though it had been found by chance, Agnes made Neale run downtown again at once with it so as to be sure the advertisement would be inserted in the next morning's Post.

  47. Also that day he sent me downtown to do some shoppin'.

  48. I merely happened to be downtown with Miss Rogers--and drove her up here in my car.

  49. While I was downtown I seen him go into the railroad ticket office.

  50. As they got closer to the downtown section, they could hear the shouts of the newsboys announcing an "extra" newspaper in all the varieties of pronunciation of that word as it issues from the mouths of city "newsies.

  51. Also, maybe it was just paranoia, but as she took the cab downtown from the mansion on Gramercy Park, she got the impression that somebody was following her in a black SUV.

  52. He loved the money and the pad He also liked how easy it was to pick up models at downtown clubs if you had your own co-op, a Porsche, and were six feet tall with a designer wardrobe.

  53. But he had a high-maintenance lifestyle involving downtown models he was constantly trying to impress with jewelry and expensive vacations, so that wasn't enough.

  54. He had left Tanya, his runway model live-in, to get her beauty sleep and had driven downtown at this unthinkable hour on a mission.

  55. I heard about her little trip downtown this morning.

  56. A picnic in Central Park, or the time they took the Staten Island ferry at night just to see the inspiring downtown skyline.

  57. Hi," he said, walking through the door of Ally's downtown studio, CitiSpace.

  58. He struck off toward the downtown business section of the city at a brisk pace.

  59. The chase led on for a half dozen blocks, then turned into one of the crowded streets of the shopping district, and proceeded in a downtown direction.

  60. There was no longer any doubt in his mind that the young man who had slammed the door in his face at the Waldorf-Astoria was now "pie slinger" in a cheap downtown restaurant.

  61. I'll bet I've walked twice as far hunting up some devoted friend to help me go downtown and eat a piece of pie.

  62. He put on a blue bath-robe and got as far as the door on his promenade downtown before we gave in and promised to do anything he wanted.

  63. You cut class to go downtown and buy a cigarette.

  64. He was so pleased and tickled over the idea that he wrote to his father at once explaining that he now had plenty of work, but had had to move downtown in order to do it.

  65. Is it any wonder that when we wanted to go downtown in pajamas and plug hats we paddled right along?

  66. When I think of the hours and hours I have spent traveling around at midnight and battering on the doors of perfectly respectable houses, trying to drag some student out and take him a mile or two away downtown after pie, I am struck with awe.

  67. Four times we went downtown for pie; three times for cigarettes; once for all the Sunday newspapers, and once for ice cream.

  68. The prisoner would telephone for Hinckley, who would crawl out of bed, come downtown cussing, and bail away in sleepy tones.

  69. When you went there for the first time the man who took you, if he knew his New York, would tell you of O'Corrigan's rise from waiting at a downtown lunch-counter to the ownership of these glittering halls.

  70. Veve frequently took a bus downtown and knew which one they must catch to reach the outskirts of Rosedale.

  71. Mrs. McGuire worked nearly every day at a downtown office.

  72. Well, I am going to drag myself downtown to get that Christmas present.

  73. When that was done and the paper on, she cast aside the old rug with scorn, and took the three girls downtown to buy others.

  74. Alex has opened a law office downtown under the name of Sandringham, Bellew and Fitch, so's to take care of the reporters and other guys of a inquisitive nature.

  75. Her husband is a salesman for a big wholesale clothing house downtown and if you're nice to him he can prob'ly get you a raincoat or something, for a great deal different price than you'd pay yourself.

  76. You see, I'm a salesman for a big wholesale clothing house downtown and right at the beginning of the war I went up to Plattsburg to try for a commission in the army.

  77. That was a year ago, and the other day this young fellow came to my downtown court room to exhibit, proudly, a new suit of clothes purchased with money withdrawn from his savings-bank account.


  78. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "downtown" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.