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Example sentences for "going down"

  • The sun is going down, and we shall not have more than an hour's daylight, and then we must look out for a place to sleep in.

  • The wind is going down fast, sir," observed Ready; "it will be fine weather before the evening.

  • The ship is fast enough, and will not move until some violent gales come on and break her up; but of that there is no fear at present: the little wind that there is, is going down, and we shall have a calm before morning.

  • I am going down to see you away," she explained; "this salt breeze with the morning tide is so delightfully fresh.

  • Going down, he looked at his watch; he had spent an hour buying that dress.

  • I am going down to the gap now to find the surveyor's monument and trace the section line back to the top of the plateau.

  • Instead of going down-stairs they crossed the hallway, slamming the door behind them.

  • I'm going down there to see what has become of them.

  • He heard her charm, and by hearing is noosed, and led away to her house, which is the way to hell, 'going down to the chambers of death.

  • Poor unclean sinner, the "harlot's house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.

  • Now I'm going down to the jam to see whether their alarm clock went off this morning.

  • Hester, going down on her knees with her hands in her mother's lap and her eyes turned up to her mother's face.

  • It was altogether very disagreeable, and made our hero almost resolve to get on board the ship a week before it started from the Thames instead of going down to Plymouth and catching it at the last moment.

  • Ten days afterwards Caldigate, in the presence both of Mick and Dick, declared his purpose of going down to Sydney.

  • Of course; I have no idea of going down to Plymouth as the man proposed, or of taking any steps to secure their absence.

  • Am I going down into an eternal sleep, on a marble couch, where grass and flowers will wave over me, and the sun shine down on me?

  • I am going down to an eternal night; down to annihilation.

  • It grew dark by the time she had arranged the furniture, and, too weary to think of going down to tea, she unbound her hair and took a seat beside the window.

  • I am going down to Ballarat to the Wattle Tree Hotel to see my friend Pierre,' he said, in a preoccupied manner, 'and will have something to eat there.

  • Now it is over, I am going down to the river and wash up," said Snap to Shep, and they walked to the edge of the stream, followed by Whopper and Giant.

  • I do, and I am going down to see what is doing.

  • Are we going down to the center of the earth?

  • Dorothy, going down on her knees before her.

  • I think the swelling's going down a little, don't you?

  • And it's that glad I am that you're going down, for I don't belave Miss Ruth could eat a mite of dinner without some man or other to encourage her about her father.

  • Polly groan, "And Joe thought so much of going down to Dunraven with us!

  • I had just resigned myself to going down to Aldershot without any one to box, when a boy in Seymour's volunteered for the vacant place.

  • We're going down on Saturday to do a bit more.

  • I'm going down to see Mrs. Endicott off to Europe.

  • Michael took great pleasure in going down to look at the house, and watching the progress that was made with it, as indeed the whole colony did.

  • Michael had been given the privilege of going down to meet his benefactor.

  • Mr. Toastmaster, may I ask the privilege of going down to Bellevue with Mr. Middleton?

  • I would ask that I be allowed to insist on going down.

  • And as soon as the sun shall rise, let every man take his arms, and rush ye out, not as going down beneath, but as making an assault.

  • From the desert, and from Libanus unto the great river Euphrates, all the land of the Hethites, unto the great sea toward the going down of the sun, shall be your border.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "going down" 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:
    called religious; dark forest; elasmobranch fishes; going abroad; going away; going down; going from; going home; going north; going over; going right; going thither; going through; going west; good sweet; guard them; kiss her; mile front; nor could; open secret; said line; staff officers; still less; thee must; thine eyes; way back