How to Use mow down in a Sentence

mow down

phrasal verb

• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Some Black Hawk helicopter with night vision mows down like 40 people.
  — TIME, 23 Feb. 2024
• Almost instantly, five men were mowed down by a machine gunner.
  — Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 31 July 2023
• In cities in his state, gun violence is mowing down a generation of people.
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 20 July 2023
• 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
• 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
• To others, the scooters were dangerous playthings that enabled jerks to mow down pedestrians.
  — Shira Ovide, Washington Post, 22 Dec. 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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

Last Updated: 28 Aug 2024