I will suddenly speak against a nation, and against a kingdom, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy it.
If he pull down, there is no man that can build up: if he shut up a man, there is none that can open.
To pull down, to demolish; to destroy; to degrade; as, to pull down a house.
To pluck down, to pull down; to demolish; to reduce to a lower state.
The occasion for the wrecking of the new playhouse was the Shrove Tuesday saturnalia of the London apprentices, who from time immemorial had employed this holiday to pull down houses of ill-fame in the suburbs.
Thence back to White Hall: where great talk of the tumult at the other end of the town, about Moore-fields, among the prentices taking the liberty of these holydays to pull down brothels.
It is strange to see with what speed the people employed do pull down Paul's steeple, and with what ease: it is said that it and the quire are to be taken down this year, and another church begun in the room thereof the next.
Coventry to have the Duke of York's permission to pull down houses, rather than lose this office, which would much hinder the King's business.
But it wouldn’t have hurt Mr. Briggs to pull down for a moment.
As the big car, with its cheering crowd, continued to fill the road, Dan was obliged to pull down a little.
For an instant he was tempted to pull down—to reduce speed—to take no further risk in this wild chase.
He claimed the power to bind and loose, to set up and to pull down, to decide every disputed cause and settle every controversy.
How it was that he came to pull down St. Peter's nobody can say.
Julius was one of the men who had to be obeyed, and he was always as ready to pull down as to build up.
Ye must not think that it will come down of its own accord; God useth instruments to pull down.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pull down" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
