How to Use mow down in a Sentence
mow down
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In the old days, the river constantly swelled and shifted to mow down old trees to raise the new.
—Brandon Loomis, The Arizona Republic, 30 June 2023
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The trick is to mow down the dandelion flowers, but try to let the grass stay pretty long, say around 3 inches.
—Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 16 June 2023
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Sure, a lot of people are here to see a machine-gun-toting Pikachu mow down other Pikachu.
—Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica, 23 Jan. 2024
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The cattle mow down the fields and then the chickens spread out the manure and aerate the soil with their pecking, which speeds up regrowth of the grass, Hamilton said.
—oregonlive, 12 Aug. 2023
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Even the streetlamps are gone, mowed down when tanks plowed through the narrow lanes as the Israeli army arrived to defend against the attackers.
—Roni Caryn Rabin, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2024
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In an early scene, droids are sent in place of humans for a fight deemed too dangerous, and they get mowed down at a pretty hefty pace throughout the film.
—Angelique Jackson, Variety, 11 May 2024
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Some Black Hawk helicopter with night vision mows down like 40 people.
—TIME, 23 Feb. 2024
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Almost instantly, five men were mowed down by a machine gunner.
—Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 31 July 2023
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In cities in his state, gun violence is mowing down a generation of people.
—Laura Johnston, cleveland, 20 July 2023
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While there are cheaper wired bots under $1,000, these require laying perimeter wire around your yard to avoid mowing down your flower beds.
—Jennifer Pattison Tuohy, The Verge, 19 Mar. 2024
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The Soviet Union seemed to be turning back the Nazi invasion, but Russian soldiers still were being mowed down in obscene numbers.
—Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 28 Apr. 2023
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To others, the scooters were dangerous playthings that enabled jerks to mow down pedestrians.
—Shira Ovide, Washington Post, 22 Dec. 2023
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The vehicle moved during the confrontation, police said, but Kahane is not accused of trying to mow down a group of protesters.
—Jake Offenhartz, Fortune, 9 May 2024
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The guns mowing down school kids, shoppers, worshippers and concert crowds belong on the same list as missile-firing tanks, nuclear subs and fighter planes.
—Dean Minnich, Baltimore Sun, 3 Feb. 2024
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The mother of a New Yorker killed in 2017 when a man driving a truck mowed down cyclists and pedestrians on a crowded Manhattan bike path told a hushed courtroom on Wednesday that no punishment meted out to the attacker could compare to her pain.
—Reuters, NBC News, 17 May 2023
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Indeed, recovery for Puerto Rico and for other islands mowed down by Irma and Maria hinges on logistics as much as engineering.
—IEEE Spectrum, 27 Sep. 2017
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Consistency in characterization is one element of that, i.e. Spider-Man isn’t going to suddenly start acting like The Punisher and mow down mafiosos with a machine gun for the long term.
—Richard Newby, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Oct. 2023
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