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Example sentences for "face down"

  • With a sob in her throat she fell back, lay for a moment outstretched on the bed, face down, her hands locked above her head.

  • Take the card off and place it face down on the table, and I will then tell you whether your attempt has been successful.

  • After it is thus freed from the card lay it face down on a piece of glass, and sponge off all the starch from the back.

  • It was dark but for a streak of moonlight, and in that he saw her, lying on her bed, face down; and stealing up laid his hand on her head.

  • Very slowly the sobbing died away, till it was just a long shivering, but still the girl held her hands over her face and her face down.

  • Face down on his knee was La Rotisserie de la Refine Pedauque, and just before he fell asleep he had been thinking: 'As a people shall we ever really like the French?

  • Baba gave a hoarse shriek, threw up her hands, and fell, face down, upon the floor.

  • Charmides was lying, face down, on the rug that covered the sand in the tent.

  • As he halted, her big eyes were upraised, and her look travelled ingenuously from his sunlit hair over his burned face down to his roughly sandalled feet.

  • Or open me and lay me face down on the table.

  • Whoever has the card matching this, takes it, lays it face down on his card repeating the prophecy, "I will be the first to wear false teeth.

  • One pack is laid in a heap, face down, in the middle of the table.

  • Through it she saw Chavis stagger, clap one hand to his chest and tumble headlong, face down, at her feet.

  • She landed on all fours and pitched headlong, face down, in the dust, but was up instantly and running toward her pony.

  • When the dust swirled away, Corrigan was disclosed to the girl's view, doubled queerly on the ground, face down.

  • His eyes snapped shut, and he dropped soundlessly, face down in the dust.

  • The grunt died in a gurgle as iron fingers closed on his throat; he was jammed, face down, into the dust and held there, smothering, until his body slacked and his muscles ceased rippling.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    beyond them; careful consideration; face against; face and; face downwards; face fell; face from; face full; face grew; face like; face looked; face page; face the; face toward the ground; face value; faced gentleman; faced round; first refused; frequently repeated; how many; merely wished; stepping back; taking cold; then called; went off; whispered back