How to Use downer in a Sentence

downer

noun

• I took some downers to help me sleep.
• Our conversation about death was a bit of a downer.
• Of course, the downer is that the schedule gets much tougher down the stretch.
  — J.p. Pelzman, Forbes, 13 May 2021
• The last week or two before the game were a downer for me at the plate.
  — Steve Millar, Daily Southtown, 14 July 2018
• The one downer was his 0-for-5 shooting from the foul line.
  — Cincinnati Enquirer, Cincinnati.com, 17 Dec. 2017
• The line comes from the sixth scene of act two of William’s iconic downer.
  — Ashley Hoffman, Time, 18 Apr. 2018
• Was this one too much of a downer to make the cut for Fearless?
  — TIME, 25 Oct. 2023
• That's why the last three seasons have been such a downer.
  — Paul Newberry, ajc, 11 Oct. 2022
• Okay, not to be a downer… But what about falling out of love?
  — Women's Health, 4 May 2023
• After that, the game could have been a downer, but Ransom raised the roof on the creaky old gym.
  — Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 Feb. 2022
• Then again, slip dresses, knit shrugs, and bare legs are even more of a downer.
  — Maria Ward, Vogue, 20 Dec. 2017
• That could be a big downer for Packers fans, who can be a thirsty bunch.
  — John Meyer, The Denver Post, 3 July 2019
• Europe and Asia are closing out the week on a downer note.
  — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 19 Mar. 2021
• However that’s not to say that None of This Rocks is a downer.
  — Jonah Bayer, SPIN, 12 Sep. 2022
• Losing this game would've been a downer for the Pacers.
  — Clifton Brown, Indianapolis Star, 14 Feb. 2018
• This can make my time in the outdoors a bit of a bummer or even a real downer.
  — Blair Braverman, Outside Online, 14 Oct. 2021
• The lack of a pack-in wireless charger is a real downer.
  — Patrick Lucas Austin, Time, 6 July 2021
• Your friends don't want their feed full of debbie downers.
  — Jessica Mattern, Country Living, 24 July 2017
• But the last panel of issue #3 is a quiet downer that will stick with you -- in a good way.
  — Will Nevin, OregonLive.com, 15 May 2018
• The only downer for the Utes will be the absence of freshman Kara Eaker.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 14 Jan. 2022
• There also is no Mr. Rogers death scene (now, that would be a downer of an ending).
  — Randy Cordova, azcentral, 18 Nov. 2019
• Its story, like those of most animals on the list, was a downer.
  — Darryl Fears, Washington Post, 21 Apr. 2018
• Maybe not on Christmas Eve per se, or your first visit home in a while—that could be a downer.
  — Margareta Magnusson, Time, 19 Dec. 2022
• April was a downer; May brought optimism; June was a slow start.
  — Dallas News, 11 June 2022
• Game 4 and Game 5 sales are slow because no one wants to pay to go to what could be a downer of a season finale.
  — Teddy Greenstein, chicagotribune.com, 17 Oct. 2017
• That’s not to say In Search of Tomorrow is a total downer.
  — Josh Weiss, Forbes, 3 Aug. 2022
• For decades, grill masters — and chow-downers of their work — have sworn that steaks taste better bone-in than bone-out.
  — Bill St. John, The Denver Post, 10 July 2019
• Samuel ended his first half on a downer, fumbling with 10 seconds left in the red zone.
  — Cam Inman, The Mercury News, 8 Sep. 2019
• So not to be a downer, but some of the economic forecasts for the near future aren't looking so great.
  — Robert Goulder, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2024
• There's also that twist and the downer of an ending that chases it; decades later, the franchise is still trying to recapture that magic.
  — Randall Colburn, EW.com, 9 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Nov 2024