How to Use bring down in a Sentence
bring down
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The Chiefs have Isiah Pacheco, the hardest to bring down.
—Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Feb. 2024
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How to save money on road trips There are ways to bring down the cost of a road trip, too.
—Nathan Diller, USA TODAY, 18 Mar. 2023
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The snow will be heavy and wet, the kind that brings down tree branches, and with them, power lines.
—Tovia Smith, NPR, 3 Apr. 2024
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Cordeiro is flushed and brought down by Joe Golden after a gain of 1.
—Nick Daschel | Ndaschel@oregonian.com, oregonlive, 3 Sep. 2023
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This jealousy then leads them to try to bring down others.
—Emily Edlynn, Parents, 15 July 2024
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The Kids Ride Free program brings down the overall cost of free bus service.
—Justin George, Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2023
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The Fed jacks up rates to slow demand and bring down inflation.
—Bryan Mena, CNN, 14 Mar. 2024
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Projects meant to scale the industry up and bring down costs have faced trials.
—John Ainger, Fortune Europe, 2 Apr. 2024
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The first one is the Robert Morris hack, the Morris worm, the first hack that’s kind of brought down the public internet in 1988.
—IEEE Spectrum, 26 July 2023
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Clean energy policies make an easy foil in the fight to bring down costs.
—Justin Worland, TIME, 26 July 2024
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If the film did go south, their music careers would likely be brought down with it.
—Alex Ritman, Variety, 1 Aug. 2024
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On top of slick roads, high winds and icing may bring down more tree limbs and other debris.
—oregonlive, 23 Dec. 2022
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The Fed has repeatedly mentioned labor and the need to bring down wage growth.
—Erik Sherman, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2022
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A couple of hours later, the Palestinian flags were brought down.
—Minnah Arshad, USA TODAY, 25 July 2024
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The Rams controlled the line of scrimmage, and Dallas never figured out a way to bring down Malcolm Brown with the first hit.
—Dallas News, 14 Sep. 2020
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South Alabama’s Tolbert, who is 6-3, could not bring down jump balls as the two of them battled on Sept. 12.
—G Smith, NOLA.com, 24 Sep. 2020
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The Biden White House has seized on bringing down the cost of health care as one way to tackle these economic concerns.
—Bo Erickson, CBS News, 6 Mar. 2024
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The next step would be to make a longer commitment with the charter company, leasing the plane for a month or even a year to bring down costs.
—Rachel Treisman, NPR, 26 May 2024
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That could bring down the wrath of the California Coastal Commission.
—Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 5 Aug. 2024
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The Turtles face a moral dilemma and team up with the other mutants to bring down Superfly — a tale as old as time.
—Amanda Luberto, The Arizona Republic, 2 Aug. 2023
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John goes on the run to clear his name and bring down some monstrous manipulators of Big Data.
—Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Mar. 2023
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Part of the Fed’s reasoning was to cool the job market and bring down wages, which, in theory, suppresses price growth.
—Matt Ott, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Aug. 2023
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Soldiers can also bring down Lancets with machine guns and small arms, but that requires being able to see them.
—Serhii Korolchuk, Washington Post, 13 Sep. 2023
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Plus, smaller venues can also bring down the overall spending.
—Ana Teresa Solá, CNBC, 3 Aug. 2024
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Three 6 Mafia was the longest of long shots, but the collective brought down the house performing with Henson during the telecast.
—August Brown, Los Angeles Times, 7 Aug. 2023
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Creative Artists Agency will bring down a small round of layoffs in the coming days, Variety has learned.
—Joe Otterson, Variety, 10 Aug. 2023
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Part of the Fed’s intent was to cool the job market and bring down wages, which many economists believe suppresses price growth.
—Matt Ott, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Aug. 2023
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Supporters of the Durbin-Marshall bill say this will bring down costs and those savings would be passed on to consumers, but research shows that this might not be the case.
—Bill Hardekopf, Forbes, 15 Feb. 2024
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Rain brings down an oily film that corrodes car engines, turns white clothes dark and stains notebooks that children carry to school.
—Sheyla Urdaneta Adriana Loureiro Fernandez, New York Times, 22 July 2023
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This router keeps things minimal by eliminating all the fancy features to bring down the price (even before the sale).
—Shubham Yewale, PCMAG, 9 Aug. 2024
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