How to Use bring down in a Sentence

bring down

verb

• Avoid flying to nearby destinations: France has banned domestic short-haul flights to bring down carbon emissions.
  — Ted Reed, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2024
• In Sunday’s video, Harris promised to bring down the cost of housing, invest in small businesses, and strengthen the island’s health care system.
  — Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 29 Oct. 2024
• In another room is 11-year-old Mohammed Ibrahim, his face bandaged after an airstrike brought down his six-story building east of the coastal city of Sidon.
  — Scott Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 Oct. 2024
• Hell-bent on seeking justice for his peers, Darrow will sacrifice everything to infiltrate the Gold caste, competing for his life to bring down his enemies.
  — Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 20 Oct. 2024
• 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
• 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
• 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 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• That could bring down the wrath of the California Coastal Commission.
  — Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 5 Aug. 2024
• 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
• Pressing a warm, damp washcloth or towel onto your trouble spot can be a great way to bring down the swelling.
  — Jenna Ryu, SELF, 13 Sep. 2024
• The sale brought down Apple’s weighting in Berkshire’s portfolio to about 30% from almost 50% at the end of last year.
  — Yun Li, CNBC, 15 Aug. 2024
• 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
• 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

Last Updated: 14 Nov 2024