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• Churchill Downs, Upson Downs (from Auntie Mame, by Patrick Dennis).
• And with each end of thy blue bow dost crown
• My bosky acres and my unshrubb'd down
• Hills afford prospects, as they must needs acknowledge who have been on the downs of Sussex.
• She went by dale, and she went by down.
• Seven thousand broad-tailed sheep grazed on his downs.
• On the 11th [June, 1771] we run up the channel [...] at noon we were abreast of Dover, and about three came to an anchor in the Downs, and went ashore at Deal.
• The cat jumped down from the table.
• It was April 22, 1831, and a young man was walking down Whitehall in the direction of Parliament Street. He wore shepherd's plaid trousers and the swallow-tail coat of the day, with a figured muslin cravat wound about his wide-spread collar.
• She was so mad she wouldn't speak to me for quite a spell, but at last I coaxed her into going up to Miss Emmeline's room and fetching down a tintype of the missing Deacon man.
• His place is farther down the road.
• I went down to Miami for a conference.
• He went down to Cavan.  down on the farm;  down country
• The computer has been shut down.  They closed the shop down.  The up escalator is down.
• Down, boy!
• He's gone back down to Newcastle for Christmas.
• Venerable men! you have come down to us from a former generation.
• to boil down in cookery, or in making decoctions
• Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.
• They tamped (down) the asphalt to get a better bond.
• He boiled the mixture./He boiled down the mixture. He sat waiting./He sat down and waited.
• The ball rolled down the hill.
• We expressed our readiness, and in ten minutes were in the station wagon, rolling rapidly down the long drive, for it was then after nine. We passed on the way the van of the guests from Asquith.
• They walked down the beach holding hands.
• The bus went down the street.
• So, things got you down? / Is Rodney Dangerfield giving you no respect? / Well, bunky, cheer up!
• The stock market is down.
• Prices are down.
• They are down by 3-0 with just 5 minutes to play.
• He was down by a bishop and a pawn after 15 moves.
• At 5-1 down, she produced a great comeback to win the set on a tiebreak.
• Two down and one to go in the bottom of the ninth.
• Ever since Nixon, I've been down on Republicans.
• Are you down to hang out at the mall, Jamal?
• As long as you're down with helping me pick a phone, Tyrone.
• The system is down.
• Two down and three to go. (Two tasks completed and three more still to be done.)
• Ten minutes down and nothing's happened yet.
• We have an officer down outside the suspect's house.
• There are three soldiers down and one walking wounded.
• We have a chopper down near the river.
• It's two weeks until opening night and our lines are still not down yet.
• I stay with Chloe the longest. When she's not hanging out at the beach parties, she lives in a Japanese garden complete with an arched bridge spanning a pond filled with koi of varying sizes and shapes. Reeds shoot out of the water, rustling when the fish swim through them, and river-washed stones are sprinkled in a bed of sand. Chloe has this whole new Japanese thing down.
• a down denial
• He downed an ale and ordered another.
• The storm downed several old trees along the highway.
• To down proud hearts.
• I remember how you downed Beauclerk and Hamilton, the wits, once at our house.
• He downed two balls on the break.
• He downed it at the seven-yard line.
• I love almost everything about my job. The only down is that I can't take Saturdays off.
• She had a down on me. I don't know what for, I'm sure; because I never said a word.
• I bet after the third down, the kicker will replace the quarterback on the field.
• I haven't solved 12 or 13 across, but I've got most of the downs.
• She lives in a two-up two-down.
• The first down begins to shade his face.
• When in the down I sink my head, / Sleep, Death's twin brother, times my breath.
• Thou bosom softness, down of all my cares!
• Le vol Pan Am 103 a été abattu en 1988.
• Last night storm downed the old oak.
• He was in a hurry, so he downed his beer.