How to Use talk down in a Sentence

talk down

verb
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  • Due to the joint effort, the man was talked down from the edge.
    — Brian Manzullo, Detroit Free Press, 24 Apr. 2018
  • No one likes to be lectured, and no one wants to be talked down to.
    — Meghan Leahy, Washington Post, 14 Feb. 2024
  • Colin is used to people talking down to him — that seems to be the thing.
    — Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Apr. 2023
  • Tina [Landau], that this isn’t a show that is talking down to kids.
    — Alyssa Bailey, ELLE, 20 July 2023
  • Michelle says Martin needs to lift women up and not talk down to them.
    — Ali Barthwell, Vulture, 8 Dec. 2021
  • But some can be talked down to just a few bucks, Terrell noted.
    — John Carlisle, Detroit Free Press, 14 Sep. 2017
  • Limbaugh’s canon was never to talk down to or insult the base.
    — Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 25 Feb. 2021
  • Mulaney’s goal for Sack Lunch Bunch was to never talk down to the kids that were watching.
    — Omar Sanchez, EW.com, 19 Dec. 2019
  • So Mullen was willing to talk down his old friend’s favorite team.
    — Doug Lesmerises, cleveland, 13 Dec. 2020
  • And along came Animaniacs, a kids' show that didn't talk down to me.
    — Kate Cox, Ars Technica, 23 Nov. 2020
  • Don’t let anyone talk down to you about quitting in the middle of something, either.
    — Josh Gondelman, SELF, 27 Dec. 2022
  • One was trying to talk down Parker, who had a gun to his head and was threatening to kill himself.
    — Kyle Whitmire, al, 12 Aug. 2021
  • The suicidal male eventually was talked down from the ledge of the bridge, the Detroit Free Press reports.
    — Cliff Pinckard, cleveland.com, 25 Apr. 2018
  • Trump for days has talked down the risk of the virus amid a market selloff and rapidly rising global cases.
    — Josh Wingrove, Bloomberg.com, 29 Feb. 2020
  • One of the elements that was very important for all of us at MTV News from the start was to never talk down to the audience.
    — Dave Sirulnick, Variety, 16 May 2023
  • Can Peanut talk down a customer who’s irate because their eggs were fried instead of scrambled?
    — Patrick W. Watson, Forbes, 15 June 2021
  • That number would be the $1.6 billion the White House requested, but haggling over the type of structure -- and where the structure could be placed -- has slowed the talks down.
    — Phil Mattingly, CNN, 21 Mar. 2018
  • Some investors have started to talk down the EV maker's stock, and this morning, Tesla's share price fell.
    — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 9 Oct. 2017
  • The players actively talked down their chances in a bid to project an air of humility.
    — Jonathan Clegg, WSJ, 3 July 2018
  • Disney doesn’t always have to talk down to its audience.
    — Dani Di Placido, Forbes, 10 June 2022
  • As in his other books, Mr. Murphy did not talk down to his young readers or sugarcoat.
    — New York Times, 8 June 2022
  • What a big man talking down to couple of women and a helpless employee.
    — Christopher Brito, CBS News, 17 May 2018
  • The Big East Conference deserves criticism for not doing anything to shut the talks down.
    — Mike Raia, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Mar. 2023
  • Your best bet now — to be fair to your sister, to start breaking this nasty older/younger pattern, to stay close to your nephew — is to apologize for talking down to her.
    — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 7 Aug. 2023
  • Some of her parts came out in full flashback mode, feeling absolutely terrified, and had to be talked down.
    — Rebecca J. Lester, Scientific American, 16 May 2023
  • That said, even Ukraine's top general is now talking down the prospect of a significant breakthrough.
    — Tom Soufi Burridge, ABC News, 3 Nov. 2023
  • But two activists who helped talk down that climber after more than 14 hours said the police should have done more to help someone that the activists said was in crisis — not staging a protest.
    — Leonardo Castañeda, The Mercury News, 14 Aug. 2019
  • Wall Street firms and the leftist national media (are) talking down the Trump stock market and the Trump economy today.
    — Rex Huppke, chicagotribune.com, 27 Aug. 2019
  • That could hurt Newsom’s ability to talk down the recall — and his ability to activate his base against it.
    — Joe Garofoli, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 July 2021
  • Craig, as has always been the case with Blume, never tries to talk down to her pre-teen audience or dismiss their intelligence.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 11 July 2023

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