How to Use bring down in a Sentence

bring down

verb
  • Overall, her plans are being sold as a way to bring down everyday costs for Americans.
    Gabriella Abdul-Hakim, ABC News, 16 Aug. 2024
  • And in a preview of her agenda, Harris' campaign shared new details Thursday evening on her plans to bring down housing costs.
    Francesca Chambers, USA TODAY, 16 Aug. 2024
  • However, combination sleepers who love sleeping on their stomach can also remove fill to bring down the height of the pillow for better spinal alignment.
    Ashley Zlatopolsky, Architectural Digest, 15 Aug. 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
  • The administration has also introduced consumer incentives to help bring down the cost of EVs.
    Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 13 Aug. 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
  • Cordeiro is flushed and brought down by Joe Golden after a gain of 1.
    Nick Daschel | Ndaschel@oregonian.com, 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Plus, smaller venues can also bring down the overall spending.
    Ana Teresa Solá, CNBC, 3 Aug. 2024
  • 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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