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Example sentences for "face downwards"

  • The eleventh card must be turned up for trumps; and the remaining cards placed, face downwards, on the table.

  • When the points on the player's cards exceed twenty-one, he throws the cards on the table, face downwards, and pays the stake.

  • The dealer then gives one card, face downwards, all round, including himself.

  • The proper distribution of the cards from left to right, face downwards.

  • After cutting for deal the owner of the lowest card deals out three cards to each player, one at a time, face downwards, and no one must on any account look at what has been given him.

  • The player wishing to purchase must first throw away the cards he desires to eject, [13] face downwards, and must place in the pool the value of one trick for each card he desires to receive from the dealer.

  • He then places the remainder of the pack before him on the table, face downwards.

  • The cards are taken, face downwards, in one hand, and the first and second fingers push back the bottom card to the extent of from half an inch to an inch.

  • If you like, you may ask the audience whether the pack shall be reversed and the chosen card found face downwards, or vice versâ.

  • In this Horrible Dungeon did I continue for seven days more, mostly grovelling on the ground, my face downwards, and praying for Deliverance or Death.

  • Then lay the pack on the table, face downwards, and divide it into seven heaps, beginning at the bottom, and leave the seventh heap larger than any of the others.

  • Put the pack down, face downwards, And in so doing, make the pass, and bring the three of spades to the bottom.

  • Make him declare it that every one may hear, then place it on the table, face downwards, and push it over the cloth to the spectator, which action will rub off all the jet powder.

  • The stock may be counted, face downwards, at any time during the play.

  • In such case, he throws his cards, face downwards, in front of the Age, who will in due course be the next dealer.

  • Thenceforward there was no sound at all in the Convent chapel, save the dull splash of rain, falling through the holes in the broken roof upon the sodden floor, where the dead woman lay, face downwards.

  • The oxen halted some fifty yards from that inanimate ragged little body, lying prone, face downwards, among the scrubby bushes that sprouted in the hot sand.

  • Place the prints, before toning, in the water, face downwards, and do not wash away too much of the free nitrate of silver.

  • Cut out the figure, and lay it, face downwards, on the landscape negative in the position you wish it to occupy in the finished print.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "face downwards" 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:
    beautiful voice; but still; face against; face and; face brightened; face flushed; face full; face the; face them; face toward the ground; face with; face wore; faced about; faced girl; fashioned garden; fixed time; general council; great earthquake; moral truth; more will; possible should; rare intervals; steeple chase; under foot; vegetable dish; want her