How to Use deep down (inside) in a Sentence

deep down (inside)

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  • The home had an interesting history, and good bones deep down.
    Hannah Martin, Architectural Digest, 2 July 2024
  • The large lake nuzzles its way deep down among the jagged and snowy alps, straddling the border of Italy and Switzerland.
    Kevin Koenig, Robb Report, 16 July 2024
  • But at the same time, deep down, there’s still that heart that wants to do good.
    Matthew Jacobs, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 June 2024
  • The desire to be an actor needs to come from deep down inside.
    Rachel Handler, Vulture, 26 Jan. 2024
  • But the truth is that deep down you and your brother have an unbreakable bond.
    Alexandra Schneider, Seventeen, 14 July 2023
  • But deep down, there is that little red buzzer that messes with him, and conflicts him and hurts him.
    Hunter Ingram, Variety, 25 Mar. 2024
  • Riley knew, deep down, there would be no return flight.
    Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2023
  • The bunker deep down the fairway — the one that can scare the heck out of you on the tee box — well that didn’t matter much for Lamprecht, who smacked his drive 367 yards and a mile over that trap.
    Jordan Kaye, Charlotte Observer, 12 Apr. 2024
  • Mahomes picked apart the Bengals deep down the field in the second half, just like quarterbacks have done all year against the Bengals.
    Charlie Goldsmith, The Enquirer, 31 Dec. 2023
  • There’s something dark, deep down inside him, which the reader can sense from the beginning.
    Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker, 1 July 2024
  • After the water cools off the equipment, it gets pushed deep down below the ground via injection wells.
    Alex Harris, Miami Herald, 2 Feb. 2024
  • Even though soil moisture rebounded slightly over the winter, most soils are very dry deep down, Todey said.
    Journal Sentinel, 1 Mar. 2024
  • Yet, deep down, there's an unexpected emptiness, a whisper that there's more to life.
    Jon Stojan, USA TODAY, 28 Jan. 2024
  • And Sparks is equally compelling as a man of the cloth who deep down seems to know his folksy brand of mediation has little effect.
    David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 June 2023
  • Billkin fit this image well because deep down inside he’s got a kind heart, the director told us.
    Sara Merican, Deadline, 19 June 2024
  • True, these are people that rabid nationalists claim not to miss, but deep down many know that a great power needs them.
    Stephen Kotkin, Foreign Affairs, 18 Apr. 2024
  • Hurts needed just seven plays to deliver another strike to Brown deep down the left sideline for a 25-yard touchdown to tie the game at 17 apiece.
    Scott Thompson, Fox News, 29 Oct. 2023
  • The series gestures vaguely toward the idea that all of us belong to cults in some fashion, and (more darkly) that a lot of us deep down want to be told what to do and what to believe in.
    Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 July 2023
  • There are some divisive changes to debate, but for me the good outweighs any issues as deep down Rebirth does enhance the tone and mood of the original game.
    Paul Tassi, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2024
  • Herbert looked left before finding Johnston deep down the far sideline.
    Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Nov. 2023
  • Then in the fourth quarter, his pump-fake, in-stride delivery deep down the left sideline to Christian Fitzpatrick went for 72 yards as the junior receiver cut back across the field and nearly scored.
    Chris Solari, Detroit Free Press, 2 Sep. 2023
  • And yet despite all this, that feeling persists, deep down, below all the affirmations and the solo dates, that there’s something rotten in me.
    Annie Lord, Vogue, 16 Sep. 2023
  • That the Gemstone kids, deep down, are fiercely devoted to one another is something that comes up a lot in the writers room, Patterson said.
    Jessica M. Goldstein, Washington Post, 16 June 2023
  • All his screaming isn’t about rage just lurking underneath the surface or repressed anger hidden deep down, waiting to explode.
    Jesse David Fox, Vulture, 16 Mar. 2024
  • Yet, deep down, the lingering doubt persisted within Beatrice.
    Refinery29 Team, refinery29.com, 12 June 2023
  • The driving position is excellent—while some other SUVs in this class have the driver's seat planted deep down below the instrument panel and the door sills, the Rodeo's helm sits high and comfortable.
    Arthur St. Antoine, Car and Driver, 18 June 2023
  • One being 20 years of the fracking boom, which yielded big improvements in the art of drilling deep down and cracking open rocks—especially the hot and hard rocks relevant to making geothermal systems.
    WIRED, 3 Aug. 2023
  • Quan and Yeoh said the film's success was because even though the plot is very fantastical, deep down the characters share similar stories, emotions and issues that many Asian Americans face.
    Emilie De Sainte Maresville, ABC News, 26 May 2023
  • Double-locking Carol’s door behind her, Lorraine locked up some might-have-been-significant portion of herself, pushing it deep down inside, where it was lost.
    Tessa Hadley, The New Yorker, 17 July 2023
  • The additional ingredients, like organic aloe vera, rosemary leaf extract, penetrate deep down to help relieve tightness and aching.
    Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 3 Apr. 2024

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