How to Use put (something) down to in a Sentence

put (something) down to

phrasal verb

• The tropes of that genre are so well worn that, to some extent, the flimsiness of the plot and of the psychology can be put down to this self-consciously genre-forward approach.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 28 Aug. 2023
• Part of that change can be put down to U.S. steamers themselves.
  — John Hopewell, Variety, 16 Feb. 2022
• At least 10 markers have been put down to record shell casings.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 24 Aug. 2020
• More than half of July's emissions could be put down to fires in North America and Siberia.
  — Amy Woodyatt, CNN, 21 Sep. 2021
• Fraying passenger tempers can be put down to a few things.
  — Ragini Saxena, Fortune, 12 June 2023
• Folbigg's story is considered by many too tragic to be put down to bad luck alone.
  — Rod McGuirk, Star Tribune, 5 May 2021
• Paddy’s own father died from the condition in his sixties, although at the time it was put down to angina.
  — Grace Browne, WIRED, 28 Dec. 2022
• The movie will follow the dog's remarkable journey from shelter pet at risk of being put down to hero police K9.
  — Kelli Bender, PEOPLE.com, 15 Mar. 2022
• One of the most common times grass seed won't germinate is after a pre-emergent herbicide has been put down to prevent weed growth.
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, Country Living, 20 Apr. 2023
• As Turner sees it, the relatively low levels of angel investment by women can’t be put down to a lack of cash.
  — Trevor Clawson, Forbes, 12 Apr. 2021
• The dog, which the team decided to call Champ, was put down to relieve his pain and suffering, according to authorities.
  — City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Apr. 2023
• The differences in mortality are often put down to men behaving more riskily.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 13 Apr. 2020
• This increase in the cost of carbon permits can, the FT’s David Sheppard explained last month, be put down to increasingly ambitious political targets to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
  — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 10 Sep. 2021
• The bitcoin price has jumped over the weekend, though that's largely been put down to Tesla billionaire Elon Musk confirming his electric car company plans to eventually resume bitcoin payments.
  — Billy Bambrough, Forbes, 14 June 2021
• Any suggestion of mounting disinterest among fans should be put down to young people no longer having attention spans, rather than the fact that soccer’s existing structures have turned the vast majority of games into meaningless processions.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2023
• Complaints that women make more than men have been put down to ‘hysteria’ or ‘anxiety’ for millennia, not because women are innately unstable or unable to cope but because medicine has never bothered to investigate the symptoms!
  — Anushay Hossain, NBC News, 15 Nov. 2021
• Bitcoin's screeching rally has been put down to a combination of Wall Street institutional adoption, corporate interest, and retail traders piling into the bitcoin and cryptocurrency market.
  — Billy Bambrough, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2021
• Tocqueville thought that this contrast between spiritual contentment amid material suffering and spiritual crisis amid material wealth could be put down to the different psychological implications of stratified and democratic social orders.
  — Cameron Hilditch, National Review, 24 July 2021

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