How to Use bring down in a Sentence

bring down

verb
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  • This jealousy then leads them to try to bring down others.
    — Emily Edlynn, Parents, 15 July 2024
  • A couple of hours later, the Palestinian flags were brought down.
    — Minnah Arshad, USA TODAY, 25 July 2024
  • The next step would be to make a longer commitment with the charter company, leasing the plane for a month or even a year to bring down costs.
    — Rachel Treisman, NPR, 26 May 2024
  • The conversation is always about the patriarchy and how to bring down patriarchy.
    — Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 16 May 2024
  • Who is baseball to bring down such a massive hammer when there’s a giant Sycuan sign in center field at Petco Park?
    — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 June 2024
  • Companies have been heavily focused on scaling production to bring down costs and on winning government approval to sell their products.
    — Dee-Ann Durbin, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 June 2024
  • Ford said recent initiatives to improve quality and vehicle launches are paying off and are expected to help bring down future warranty costs.
    — Michael Wayland, CNBC, 24 July 2024
  • The scandal that brought down Donald Sterling finally gets the Hollywood treatment.
    — Kevinisha Walker, Los Angeles Times, 25 May 2024
  • Millennial gamers got angry with short sellers aiming to bring down one of their favorite hangouts, and bought the stock, squeezing some $6 billion from the shorts, who had hoped to profit by tanking it.
    — Peter Green, Quartz, 18 May 2024
  • Still, taken as a whole, the April data could restore some confidence that policymakers will be able to keep bringing down inflation without causing a recession.
    — Ben Casselman, New York Times, 15 May 2024
  • The Chiefs have Isiah Pacheco, the hardest to bring down.
    — Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Feb. 2024
  • How to save money on road trips There are ways to bring down the cost of a road trip, too.
    — Nathan Diller, USA TODAY, 18 Mar. 2023
  • The snow will be heavy and wet, the kind that brings down tree branches, and with them, power lines.
    — Tovia Smith, NPR, 3 Apr. 2024
  • Cordeiro is flushed and brought down by Joe Golden after a gain of 1.
    — Nick Daschel | Ndaschel@oregonian.com, oregonlive, 3 Sep. 2023
  • The Kids Ride Free program brings down the overall cost of free bus service.
    — Justin George, Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2023
  • The Fed jacks up rates to slow demand and bring down inflation.
    — Bryan Mena, CNN, 14 Mar. 2024
  • Projects meant to scale the industry up and bring down costs have faced trials.
    — John Ainger, Fortune Europe, 2 Apr. 2024
  • The first one is the Robert Morris hack, the Morris worm, the first hack that’s kind of brought down the public internet in 1988.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 26 July 2023
  • On top of slick roads, high winds and icing may bring down more tree limbs and other debris.
    — oregonlive, 23 Dec. 2022
  • The Fed has repeatedly mentioned labor and the need to bring down wage growth.
    — Erik Sherman, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2022
  • The Biden White House has seized on bringing down the cost of health care as one way to tackle these economic concerns.
    — Bo Erickson, CBS News, 6 Mar. 2024
  • The Turtles face a moral dilemma and team up with the other mutants to bring down Superfly — a tale as old as time.
    — Amanda Luberto, The Arizona Republic, 2 Aug. 2023
  • John goes on the run to clear his name and bring down some monstrous manipulators of Big Data.
    — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Mar. 2023
  • Part of the Fed’s reasoning was to cool the job market and bring down wages, which, in theory, suppresses price growth.
    — Matt Ott, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Aug. 2023
  • Soldiers can also bring down Lancets with machine guns and small arms, but that requires being able to see them.
    — Serhii Korolchuk, Washington Post, 13 Sep. 2023
  • Three 6 Mafia was the longest of long shots, but the collective brought down the house performing with Henson during the telecast.
    — August Brown, Los Angeles Times, 7 Aug. 2023
  • Creative Artists Agency will bring down a small round of layoffs in the coming days, Variety has learned.
    — Joe Otterson, Variety, 10 Aug. 2023
  • Part of the Fed’s intent was to cool the job market and bring down wages, which many economists believe suppresses price growth.
    — Matt Ott, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Aug. 2023
  • Supporters of the Durbin-Marshall bill say this will bring down costs and those savings would be passed on to consumers, but research shows that this might not be the case.
    — Bill Hardekopf, Forbes, 15 Feb. 2024
  • Rain brings down an oily film that corrodes car engines, turns white clothes dark and stains notebooks that children carry to school.
    — Sheyla Urdaneta Adriana Loureiro Fernandez, New York Times, 22 July 2023

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