How to Use from top to bottom in a Sentence

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• Hold the side of the avocado with one hand, and cut from top to bottom, making sure the knife’s blade is perpendicular to the cutting board.
  — Anahad O’Connor, Washington Post, 26 June 2024
• Stand the pineapple on one end, then slice off the fruit's skin in strips from top to bottom.
  — Sheena Chihak, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 June 2024
• Her lyric and melody was written from top to bottom in no more than an hour, right there on the spot.
  — Jem Aswad, Variety, 1 Dec. 2023
• At the end of 10 minutes, remove the lid and use two large spoons to quickly turn the rice from top to bottom.
  — Debbie Moose, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
• First, give the mower a good cleaning from top to bottom.
  — Kat De Naoum, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 Apr. 2023
• The flow of air in a plane cabin goes from top to bottom, not from front to back or vice versa.
  — Stefanie Waldek, Travel + Leisure, 6 Sep. 2023
• Note that this recipe calls for halving the peppers from top to bottom.
  — Robin Miller, The Arizona Republic, 3 May 2024
• The screen in the Nautilus measures 4.3 inches from top to bottom.
  — Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 22 Jan. 2024
• Second is the lug-to-lug length, which is how long the watch is from top to bottom where the strap attaches.
  — Brad Lanphear, menshealth.com, 11 May 2023
• Second is the lug-to-lug length, which is how long the watch is from top to bottom where the strap attaches.
  — Brad Lanphear, menshealth.com, 11 May 2023
• Those over-the-knee sparkling cowboy boots that were studded from top to bottom.
  — Chaise Sanders, Country Living, 16 June 2022
• Each letter’s code was then defined by the path from top to bottom.
  — Quanta Magazine, 31 May 2023
• For an outside mount, do the same thing, just measure from the outside of the trim pieces from left to right and from top to bottom.
  — Katy Spratte Joyce, ELLE Decor, 5 Sep. 2023
• The Red Sox escaped a Braves team that, from top to bottom, is the best team in baseball, with a series split.
  — Julian McWilliams, BostonGlobe.com, 26 June 2023
• Slide Rock is 80 feet long and features a 7% decline from top to bottom.
  — Shelby Slade, The Arizona Republic, 10 July 2024
• Using the knife in a sawing motion, curving with the shape of the orange, cut the pith and peel from top to bottom.
  — Sally Pasley Vargas, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Jan. 2023
• Working from top to bottom means debris from the top will land on a dirty floor instead of a clean one.
  — Kelsey Mulvey, Southern Living, 29 Aug. 2023
• Take your measurements from top to bottom and write them down.
  — Ann Friedman, The Atlantic, 11 Sep. 2023
• Lay a square napkin facedown, and fold in half from top to bottom and again from left to right, forming a small square.
  — Maggie Burch, Southern Living, 24 Jan. 2024
• This backpack comes with a U-zip back panel, which unzips from top to bottom to open the entire back of the bag.
  — James Lynch, Popular Mechanics, 6 July 2023
• With that in mind, keeping your vents open will help keep the air moving from top to bottom quickly.
  — Stefanie Waldek, Travel + Leisure, 6 Sep. 2023
• When using a box grater, use the side with the largest holes and run the zucchini from top to bottom in a downward motion.
  — Robin Miller, The Arizona Republic, 27 June 2024
• Set aside an afternoon and go shelf by shelf to empty your fridge from top to bottom.
  — Maggie Gillette, Better Homes & Gardens, 23 Apr. 2024
• While some are covered in bulging muscles from top to bottom, others are lanky and lean.
  — Kimmy Yam, NBC News, 25 Feb. 2023
• Your paddle system has three parts: the paddles at the bottom, a length of rope in the middle, and a heavy weight that slides along the rope from top to bottom.
  — Rhett Allain, WIRED, 31 Oct. 2023
• Work your way from top to bottom when applying the flocking, and work only on one section of the tree at a time.
  — Rachel Silva, ELLE Decor, 7 Aug. 2023
• Its curled brush is inspired by hairstyling tools, so it’s designed to get every lash from top to bottom.
  — Talia Ergas, Travel + Leisure, 25 Apr. 2023
• For a thousand years, locals have tamed the cliffs by terracing them with stone walls from top to bottom.
  — Julia Buckley, Travel + Leisure, 18 Nov. 2023
• Staggering the pruning heights can give you a fuller vine with flowers from top to bottom.
  — Janet B. Carson, arkansasonline.com, 1 July 2024
• The interior of this Magro built home has been recently repainted, from top to bottom, Buccheri said.
  — James Alexander, Hartford Courant, 14 July 2024

Last Updated: 7 Sep 2024