How to Use downcast in a Sentence

downcast

adjective

• There were a lot of downcast faces in the crowd.
• At a glance, the saint’s eyes seem to be sightless or downcast.
  — New York Times, 11 July 2019
• The first boy shuffled across the tile floor with his arms crossed and eyes downcast.
  — NBC News, 29 Oct. 2019
• The corners of her mouth are turned down, her eyes downcast.
  — Reuters, ABC News, 11 Sep. 2021
• Her hair was cropped just above the shoulder, and her eyes were downcast.
  — Madeleine Watts, Harper’s Magazine , 25 May 2022
• The few lights are dim and downcast to protect our night vision.
  — Sallie Tisdale, Harper's Magazine, 24 Nov. 2020
• At what should be a time of celebration for the tribe, the group was downcast.
  — Christina Tkacik, Washington Post, 12 Feb. 2018
• The labels for the show are on the floor, prompting viewers to take the same downcast stance as the hooded figure.
  — Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Jan. 2022
• The bust on Mount Tabor depicts him as bald, with downcast eyes.
  — oregonlive, 21 Feb. 2021
• Ari sits alone on a colorful rug under the chalkboard near the front of the room, his large light brown eyes downcast.
  — Olivia Krauth, The Courier-Journal, 16 Dec. 2019
• In court on Tuesday, Tony Hernández looked pale and downcast.
  — Fox News, 31 Mar. 2021
• Instead the flashes seared on Dodgers’ fans memories will be of downcast heads and slow trudges off the field.
  — Stephanie Apstein, SI.com, 2 Nov. 2017
• Unlike the rest of the figures on the canvas his expression is downcast.
  — Los Angeles Times, 28 Aug. 2019
• My name for Kostya was Eyeore, after the downcast mule in Winnie-the-Pooh.
  — Sam Patten, WIRED, 14 Aug. 2019
• Unlike his cousin, who keeps his eyes downcast, Emmett can’t help but look right at her.
  — Robert Daniels, Time, 14 Oct. 2022
• What counted was in part how the morning’s overcast threatened to leave us a bit downcast for the remainder of the day.
  — Washington Post, 20 Apr. 2021
• One more thing: Hunter Pence does not appear to be downcast over his .183 average this spring.
  — Andrew Baggarly, The Mercury News, 2 Apr. 2017
• The leaders are well under par — by tourney’s end, a course-record round of 62 will have been shot — and in the clubhouse Alex is downcast about her six-over-par 76.
  — Rand Richards Cooper, courant.com, 19 Sep. 2019
• He was downcast when his family moved back to Sweden in 1942.
  — Matt Schudel, Washington Post, 3 Nov. 2020
• That didn't ease the pain obvious on the faces of players in a downcast locker room but offered promise too hard to come by in the Fox era.
  — David Haugh, chicagotribune.com, 11 Sep. 2017
• Her downcast eyes, that clutch of her shawl, strongly suggested both those things.
  — The Economist, 17 May 2018
• Yet as guests made their way to a champagne-soaked after-party Ms. Chiuri looked downcast.
  — Elizabeth Paton, New York Times, 26 May 2018
• Speaking of avatars of alienation, K moves through his days with the unhurried shuffle and downcast baby blues of Ryan Gosling.
  — A. O. Scott, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2017
• The downcast melody brings to mind the early, fragile work of his contemporary Elliott Smith.
  — Mark Richardson, WSJ, 28 Nov. 2018
• The end result was a rather downcast orchestral ballad that director Sam Mendes couldn’t find a way to use.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 7 Oct. 2021
• When My Chem announced its dissolution in 2013, the news left its fans even more downcast than they’re usually known to be.
  — Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2022
• Seated in a Guadalajara hotel lounge last March, a downcast Brian Schmetzer divulged the bare and brutal truth of what lay ahead.
  — Geoff Baker, The Seattle Times, 30 Oct. 2018
• Osnos hits on the above truth, but does so in typically downcast fashion.
  — John Tamny, Forbes, 22 Sep. 2021
• Each is a double: two sets of the twelve apostles, in action, flanking Christ, whose eyes are downcast—the rare Warhol protagonist who doesn’t face the viewer.
  — Paul Elie, The New Yorker, 7 Dec. 2021
• The boys shuffled past, eyes downcast, mumbling something about being sorry for her loss.
  — Andrew Solomon, The New Yorker, 4 Apr. 2022

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024