Examples of downtrodden in a Sentence
They were poor and downtrodden.
a war that was supposed to liberate the downtrodden citizens of that nation
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But the Sunday Service Choir’s soothing harmonies and Moore’s sweet hook turned the track’s initial downtrodden mood upside down.
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Heran Mamo, Billboard, 3 Sep. 2019
Novak Djokovic had come here in past years feeling out of sorts, searching for answers, injured, downtrodden and disappointed.
—Ava Wallace, Washington Post, 14 July 2024
But a downtrodden Ben — who got broken up with by Renee the night before, despite never having remembered inviting her to move in in the first place — just doesn’t have it in him to celebrate.
—Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 4 July 2024
In The Holiday, heartbroken movie-trailer producer Amanda (Diaz, 51) offers up her Los Angeles mansion in order to get away for the holidays, before similarly downtrodden columnist Iris (Winslet, 48) answers, swapping her English country cottage.
—Jen Juneau, Peoplemag, 13 June 2024
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Heran Mamo, Billboard, 3 Sep. 2019
Novak Djokovic had come here in past years feeling out of sorts, searching for answers, injured, downtrodden and disappointed.
—Ava Wallace, Washington Post, 14 July 2024
But a downtrodden Ben — who got broken up with by Renee the night before, despite never having remembered inviting her to move in in the first place — just doesn’t have it in him to celebrate.
—Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 4 July 2024
In The Holiday, heartbroken movie-trailer producer Amanda (Diaz, 51) offers up her Los Angeles mansion in order to get away for the holidays, before similarly downtrodden columnist Iris (Winslet, 48) answers, swapping her English country cottage.
—Jen Juneau, Peoplemag, 13 June 2024
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“Downtrodden.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/downtrodden. Accessed 7 Sep. 2024.
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downtrodden
adjective
down·trod·den
ˈdau̇n-ˈträd-ᵊn 
: crushed by superior power
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