How to Use bring down in a Sentence

bring down

verb

• The Chiefs have Isiah Pacheco, the hardest to bring down.
  — Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Feb. 2024
• 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
• At the top of my list is bringing down your cost of living.
  — Alex Gangitano, The Hill, 30 Oct. 2024
• Some, like Yu, see it as a way to bring down the price of prescription drugs.
  — Angelica Peebles, CNBC, 13 Feb. 2025
• 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
• Gusty winds up to 45 mph could bring down tree branches.
  — Raja Krishnamoorthi, Newsweek, 15 Dec. 2024
• In a daring twist, Dusko betrays the Germans and helps bring down the Nazi regime.
  — Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 15 Oct. 2024
• Cordeiro is flushed and brought down by Joe Golden after a gain of 1.
  — Nick Daschel | [e-mail], oregonlive, 3 Sep. 2023
• This jealousy then leads them to try to bring down others.
  — Emily Edlynn, Parents, 15 July 2024
• The Kids Ride Free program brings down the overall cost of free bus service.
  — Justin George, Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2023
• The Fed jacks up rates to slow demand and bring down inflation.
  — Bryan Mena, CNN, 14 Mar. 2024
• Projects meant to scale the industry up and bring down costs have faced trials.
  — John Ainger, Fortune Europe, 2 Apr. 2024
• The earthquake of 2023 finally brought down what was left of the regime’s facade.
  — Loubna Mrie, The Atlantic, 20 Dec. 2024
• 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
• Trump simply cannot afford to bring down the house—and must be stopped from doing so.
  — Charles A. Kupchan, The Atlantic, 10 Jan. 2025
• Clean energy policies make an easy foil in the fight to bring down costs.
  — Justin Worland, TIME, 26 July 2024
• If the film did go south, their music careers would likely be brought down with it.
  — Alex Ritman, Variety, 1 Aug. 2024
• The saga has brought down the Malaysian prime minister, a top Goldman Sachs banker and a key first-term Trump fundraiser.
  — Gary Baum, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Jan. 2025
• On top of slick roads, high winds and icing may bring down more tree limbs and other debris.
  — oregonlive, 23 Dec. 2022
• The Fed has repeatedly mentioned labor and the need to bring down wage growth.
  — Erik Sherman, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2022
• A couple of hours later, the Palestinian flags were brought down.
  — Minnah Arshad, USA TODAY, 25 July 2024
• This, in turn, could bring down the price of gas at the pump, as gas prices are largely determined by global crude oil prices.
  — Giulia Carbonaro, Newsweek, 20 Feb. 2025
• What the voters in California elected me to do was to try to bring down the cost of living, the cost of housing, the cost of child care.
  — NBC News, 5 Jan. 2025
• 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
• 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
• Now, both sides are joining forces to bring down the more centrist prime minister.
  — Brittney Melton, NPR, 4 Dec. 2024
• 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
• Trees were brought down by high winds and roads were flooded, prompting the closure of schools and businesses.
  — Simina Mistreanu, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2024
• 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
• But there are steps the federal government could take to try to protect flocks and eventually help bring down prices.
  — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 10 Feb. 2025

Last Updated: 8 Mar 2025