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Example sentences for "face downward"

  • SNAP The pack of cards is dealt round, face downward, and each player packs his cards together, without looking at them, and then places them in front of him.

  • Bound as in a frame of elastic steel, their victim was thrown, face downward, upon the sand.

  • I do not know how long I remained there, but presently I heard a groan near by, and a tall man rose up from where he had been stretched, face downward, on the ground, and I beheld Paul Darcantel!

  • Face downward, with a hole between his shoulder blades, the dead man was lying where he might lie undiscovered for months or for years, or forever.

  • Half-way down the cliff on an outcropping shelf of rock the man lay, face downward, motionless.

  • But by the time we dropped that line I had begun to think coherently and to take note of everything possible to me, bound as I was, face downward, on the pony's back.

  • Charlie Bent's splendid white steed fell headlong, hurling its rider to the ground and dragging him, face downward, in the dirt.

  • Yonder lay, face downward, as described, a sinewy young brave of the Apache Mohave band, his newer, cleaner shirt and his gayly ornamented sash and headgear telling of superior rank and station among his kind.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    bitter almonds; devilish good; face again; face and; face brightened; face down; face downwards; face grew; face looked; face page; face the; face was; face with; face wore; faced about; faced gentleman; faced girl; faced man; fresco painting; generally used; kidney disease; little behind; little juice; mind the; usually applied; when planted