How To Use Come down In A Sentence

`A lot of young ones come down with the croup from time to time. LASTING TREASURES
And he said unto him, Thus saith the Lord, Forasmuch as thou hast sent messengers to enquire of Baal-zebub the god of Ekron, is it not because there is no God in Israel to enquire of his word? therefore thou shalt not come down off that bed on which thou art gone up, but shalt surely die. The Doré Gallery of Bible Illustrations, Volume 4
Make haste, and come down this moment. Pride and Prejudice
It would be unforgivably discourteous not to come down to dinner. SANDS OF TIME
Waits have come down since claimants were told to present their case in person. The Sun

Myriad interrelated factors will influence which of them come down as snow. Times, Sunday Times
We were forced to come down in a field.
Make haste, and come down this moment. Pride and Prejudice
At sharp five o'clock th 'rivolution begun. Th' sthreets was dinsely packed with busy journalists, polis, sojers, an 'fash'nably dhressed ladies who come down fr'm th' Chang's All Easy in motocycles. Mr. Dooley: In the Hearts of His Countrymen
The lags staged the rooftop protest during a sunny spell and refused to come down. The Sun
The level of hard work and commitment put in over the past few months had come down to the crunch and true to form, both communities lived up to their full potential.
But why do you come down to our mere mortal plain in this weather, angel?
When she had approached near, I filled the main-topsail, and continued to yaw the ship, while she continued to come down, wearing occasionally to prevent her passing under our stern. The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876
They also come down to the ground for worms and beetles. Times, Sunday Times
The laws of physics dictate that what goes up must come down.
I look at my big daft name on the back wall and nervously come down the stairs. The Sun
He was drunk; he seemed excited and tired, as if he had just come down off methedrine.
The walls of the educational system must come down. Education should not be a privilege, so the children of those who have money can study. Che Guevara
Sheer orders of magnitude matter, and the orders of magnitude do not come down on the side of the real-balance effect.
I live in AZ and would love for some of my kids to come down and take a job like that; small businesses are dying because of our government. Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » So This is How it Works…
As the dust cleared, we saw that the whole ceiling had come down.
The walls of the educational system must come down. Education should not be a privilege, so the children of those who have money can study. Che Guevara
Tolstoy tried to mix domesticity and family life, but he would come downstairs after writing and see his family playing and his eyes would well up.
At suitable sites, mist nets are strung up, and traps laid that harmlessly snare the birds as they come down to roost or rest.
She felt so sick that it was lunchtime before she could drag herself out of bed and come downstairs.
Head-reaches of the Tanana is good enough for me from now on, and mark my words, when the big strike comes, she'll come down river. Chapter X
What goes up must come down. Isaac Newton
The large food retailers are going global, and as barriers to trade come down, the economics ate determining where the investment and trade take place.
Most of the prehistoric monuments that have come down to us served ritual or symbolic purposes, rather than utilitarian ones. Times, Sunday Times
I`m hoping this precaution may act as a talisman to prevent the ceiling coming down...if I don`t put the dustsheet down, the ceiling will come down for sure, yes? Stripping again.
Plastic bars will come down to split the house in two, with those in the rich part given £400 housekeeping money and access to better living conditions.
From their accents, it was apparent that they'd come down from Scotland to take part in the event.
Agatha used the intercom to buzz what she called ‘servant headquarters’ and ordered two maids to come down.
Waits have come down since claimants were told to present their case in person. The Sun
Costs have continued to come down on account of location, technology and globalisation.
Exactly; it all seems to come down to semantics to me, which isn't a compelling argument for existence or non-existence, and therefore epistemologically interesting, but useless in practice. Against Darwinism
You have to come down that hill in a low gear to keep within the speed limit.
Blackbirds that come down for bread on a snowy lawn spend almost as much time quarrelling as feeding. Times, Sunday Times
In bygone days, population changes (with the exception of immigration) might come down to a simple matter of which areas were "outbreeding" the others. The Moderate Voice
Westmoreland; and not liking to intrude on his family circle that evening, I sent a note up to Greta Hall, requesting him to come down and see me, and drink one half mutchkin along with me. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 543, Saturday, April 21, 1832.
Unlike the other girls, whose only vestiary accommodation to the day's activities has been to sweep their hair out of the way with butterfly barrettes, Calloway sports a blue Derek Jeter jersey and her hair is done up in careful rows of tight braids that won't come down right after practice.
Didn't the Governor say (repeatedly) that the viaduct is unsafe and will come down by 2012? Tunnel Construction Could Be Delayed One Year « PubliCola
In most sports, the difference between success and failure can often come down to an explosive burst of power.
The cost of food and clothing has come down in recent years. Similarly, fuel prices have fallen quite considerably.
They'll think it most awfully sneakish of me to talk to you without them; do come down, there's a dear. ' The Story of the Amulet
They also come down to the ground for worms and beetles. Times, Sunday Times
Then we would come down behind the net, making a noise and splashing the water to move the flounder.
Unemployment has come down slightly but this does not alter the fact that it is still a major problem.
In the US, stallion fees for new sires have come down significantly.
What goes up must come down. Isaac Newton
An oxygen mask will come down from the overhead in case of an emergency.
Prisoners are fed breakfast, lunch and dinner by wardens who come down the corridors with ready-cooked food on trolleys but many inmates prefer to make their own meals in the evening.
The differences come down essentially to terms and conditions - most importantly, commitment and charges.
“Come down, my boy,” he said in the slightly schoolmasterish tone he always used when he wanted something done quickly. The Tiger in the Smoke
But, Raoul, let us come down to what I call plain reason. Vautrin
You have to come down that hill in a low gear to keep within the speed limit.
The defense is for us all, but scientists in particular, to be aware of what's going on and not be gulled by the claims to greater efficiency made by private enterprise, which on close examination usually come down to presentation.
Is the foregoing family a branch of that of Herefordshire, now ennobled; or does it come down from one of the name anterior to the time when such earldom was made patent, viz. from Sir Richard Harley, 28 Edward I.: whose armorial bearings, according to one annalist, is mentioned as _Or, bend cotized sable_? Notes and Queries, Number 184, May 7, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
Similarly, oxygen level had come down substantially in the lake also due to discharge of contaminated water into it.
It's a bad lookout for the company if interest rates don't come down.
If I were really worried, I'd get a stepladder and get up closer to her and see how she reacted… if she didn't seem eager to come down, I'd probably not force the issue.
The revenue authorities have come down on me for the payment of twenty pounds income tax.
Or, you could argue that our language has become downright coarse, offensive and rude.
But the same comment applies in any situation we think of as probabilistic (either the coin will come down heads or it won't).
'entresol', where I supposed she had taken refuge, to induce her to come down, fancying it safer that we should not be separated. Marie Antoinette — Volume 06
In the end, it will all come down to clever marketing of the brand extension.
And now he had come down with the firm resolve that he would not again evade the trial. Daniel Deronda
A recent thread over on Hit and Run drove home the point that a lot of people think complaints about DRM and policies like the broadcast flag come down to thin fig leaves for a desire to pirate music. The Pragmatics of Crappy DRM
The ravine grew more and more beautiful, and an ascent through a dark wood of arrowy cryptomeria brought us to this village exquisitely situated, where a number of miniature ravines, industriously terraced for rice, come down upon the great chasm of the Kinugawa. Unbeaten Tracks in Japan
These braces come down to the ship's sides, or to the heads of the masts fore and aft of those on which the yard is swung; all the mizzen-braces working on the mainmast; the maintopgallant, mainroyal and skysail braces working on the mizzenmast; and the foretopgallant and foreroyal braces working on the mainmast, as is clearly shown in our illustration. Golden Days for Boys and Girls, Vol. XIII, Nov. 28, 1891
And now he had come down with the firm resolve that he would not again evade the trial. Daniel Deronda
She would, with malice aforethought, stop a plow to send Sarah to a quilting, and then, the Captain's foot would come down in earnest, and he'd "wonder whether there was a woman in the world that wouldn't lose a crop to give her daughter a sugar-tit! Master William Mitten: or, A Youth of Brilliant Talents, Who Was Ruined by Bad Luck
For the same reasons, leprosy is now called Hansen's disease, and mongolism has become Down syndrome; people who were once called crazy, mad, lunatic, demented, etc., are now categorized as sick. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XVIII No 1
I suggest we hand-pick a couple of journalists to come down and cover it. TEN STEPS TO HAPPINESS
Then, as you get better, come down to something like an eight-foot funboard. Kook
It's always very interesting to see how the ranch air invigorates people when they come down from Washington.
Every trivial action must be thoroughly motivated, and the finish of the playlet, instead of occurring upon the 'catabasis,' or general windup of the action, must develop the most striking feature of the playlet, so that the curtain may come down on a surprise, or at least an event toward which the entire action has been progressing. Writing for Vaudeville
With the vaccine approved and becoming more widely available, the unvaccinated continued to come down with polio.
The energetic come down on ropes or slide into view at about thirty miles an hour. The Times Literary Supplement
They include those who come down from University with no other qualification than a pass degree and perhaps a Blue, and no prospects whatsoever.
Even so, they might have managed to scrape through the winter on their stock of frozen salmon and stored blubber, and what the traps gave them, but in December one of their hunters came across a tupik (a skin-tent) of three women and a girl nearly dead, whose men had come down from the far North and been crushed in their little skin hunting-boats while they were out after the long-horned narwhal. The Second Jungle Book
Debates about translation have been raging since the Romans, and, crudely, they all come down to the same decision: whether to "domesticate" the translation or to "foreignise" it. Languagehat.com: MAGUIRE ON TRANSLATION.
The jury is considering its verdict and we're waiting to see which side of the fence they'll come down on.
Powerful and successful presentations or speeches basically come down to the person doing the presenting or speaking.
Most of them stay on the hillsides all the winter but if it turns very cold they will come down to lowland rivers. Times, Sunday Times
Physical and ideological barriers had come down in Eastern Europe.
Gunnar made men bear down the wares of his brother and himself to the ship, and when all Gunnar's baggage had come down, and the ship was all but "boun," then Gunnar rides to Bergthorsknoll, and to other homesteads to see men, and thanked them all for the help they had given him. The Story of Burnt Njal: the great Icelandic tribune, jurist, and counsellor
The text which has come down to us is only a fragment of the original.
Amongst other things you can: go up the mountain with gondolas, teleferics and chairlifts, come down the mountain with mountain karts, downhill mountain bikes… also trips on quads, trekking, horse-riding…
Will you please go tell Mara and that foxy chick you're with to come down for dinner?
Prisoners are fed breakfast, lunch and dinner by wardens who come down the corridors with ready-cooked food on trolleys but many inmates prefer to make their own meals in the evening.
Mother wants to come downstairs, but is too weak to walk; it'll take both of you to bring her down.
The elder Edda, which is the fountain of the mythology, consists of old songs and ballads, which had come down from an immemorial past in the mouths of the people, but were first collected and committed to writing by Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology
De niggers soon 'skiver' dat he wuz a Yankee, en dat he come down ter Norf C'lina fer ter learn de w'ite folks how to raise grapes en make wine. The Goophered Grapevine
The instrumental ensemble he has assembled - the scores that have come down to us do not indicate instrumentation - consists of three violins, two violas, two cellos, two cembalos, two lutes, harp, two flutes, dulzian, and two cornets.
All you are talking about changing is in the region of five to ten votes per ballot box and that's what it will come down to.
The mast had come down, but rags of the canvas sheets remained.
We come down here in sixth gear into a chicane which is really amazing because it drops away totally and its quite difficult to get it right. WN.com - Articles related to Lewis Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel escape punishment after pit-lane misdemeanor in China
I think I'm starting to come down. Let's smoke another joint.
They always go up like a rocket and come down like a feather. The Sun
Come down from he small, center pinnacle and the gablet is the first one you will find.
The whole weekend was so wonderful I haven't come down yet.
Birds teach us something very important: To whatever height you rise, you will finally come down to the ground! Mehmet Murat ildan
He's improved a lot, and his handicap has come down from 18 to 12.
Hack: With Fred, it will come down to that flatstick, just as it did in '06 when Phil got him. SI.com
By His precious blood a road was made from Heaven to earth, by which God could come down to man.
Just five or ten years ago, the potato men would have come down this street in a wooden wagon pulled by a horse.
So I had to go find a telephone and call the director so that she would come down and escort me in.
With the birch catkins all gone by February, they come down and feed on the early dandelion clocks. Times, Sunday Times
They all come down in a rain of clamoring tambourines and bottleneck slide guitars, clawhammer banjo picking, booming jug band blowing and barrelhouse piano rolls. FLY FISHING WITH DARTH VADER
So saying, he hent in hand a stick 190 and flourishing it thrice in the air, was about to come down with it upon the lame ape, when the creature cried out for mercy and said to him, I conjure thee, by The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
Her life, begun not unprosperously, had come down to this -- to a mean prison and a long, ignoble bondage. Vanity Fair
It always frustrates me when Ministers come down to the House and gabble through a speech written by someone else when they introduce a bill, and clearly do not have the faintest notion what the bill is doing or what it is about.
Physical and ideological barriers had come down in Eastern Europe.
Miss Gwynne waited until she heard Mr Prothero come down from his wife's room, calling busily for Owen, who was in the wheat-field, and telling him to go and fetch Dr Richards. Gladys, the Reaper
He was a great driver of the ball, but with his irons he didn't come down on a steep enough plane, and he hit these sweeping draws.
And Felix, knowing accurately the things concerning the way, adjourned them, saying, When Lysias the chiliarch is come down I will determine your affair;
What goes up must come down. Isaac Newton
The world record has come down by about two minutes over multiple attempts across a decade. Times, Sunday Times
There they will now find other snow buntings that have come down from the Arctic. Times, Sunday Times
The cost of borrowing has come down significantly with a loosening of monetary policy in the hope that injecting more cash into the economy would help revive struggling businesses.
The whole life of the person come down be destine and meekly tolerate insult negative heavy, be want continuously of with desire aggro, particularly man, ever smoke cigarette of man!
It still has to come down to telling the audience you've had as bad a day as them. The Sun
There are huge Douglas firs, cedars, and hemlocks behind us, and cougars come down to the lake to drink.
In my confusion I imagined, a moment before the assailants entered the Queen's apartments, that my sister was not among the group of women collected there; and I went up into an 'entresol', where I supposed she had taken refuge, to induce her to come down, fancying it safer that we should not be separated. Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete
It will come down because it is ridiculous, and no mandarinic efforts can keep it up. Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911
Apparently, there are fish called stonefish that come down when the rivers are swollen and they are very poisonous. '' AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories
The order to come down, however, never reached many of the men who had climbed the staircases of the North Tower.
Well, lemme get my room first and then, I'll come down to meet everyone.
She refused to come down squarely on either side of the argument.
Past the flailing dramatics it will come down to a well-placed drop-step or well-timed tip-in.
The Film Works is currently wrapping production on Virgo's second feature, Love Come Down, starring Deborah Cox.
Are you prepared to come down to the station later on to amend your statement? FORESTS OF THE NIGHT
Basseterre, and another French seaman, who was with him in the crossjack yard, having come down from aloft to our assistance. The Ghost Ship A Mystery of the Sea
Councillors ruled last year that they were detrimental to visual amenity and had to come down.
It's a bad lookout for the company if interest rates don't come down.
While a cut in termination charges could cause downward pressure on retail prices, it is unlikely that mobile text message prices would come down for consumers. Times, Sunday Times
Finally, she was joined by an old bearded tinker who had come down to the shore with his heavy canvas bag of tradesman's tools.
All I can say is the city is on a power trip and they need to come down to earth and see the simpler stuff in life.
An oxygen mask will come down from overhead in case of an emergency.
The jury is considering its verdict and we're waiting to see which side of the fence they'll come down on.
Falling trees don't come down slow and graceful but crash very fast, and there's no time to jump out of the way.
Its period of service over, the hatchment had come down from the front of the house, and lived in retirement somewhere in the back premises of Vanity Fair
Fancy her taking a job like that - she's certainly come down in the world!
Unemployment has come down slightly but this does not alter the fact that it is still a major problem.
As the dust cleared, we saw that the whole ceiling had come down.
But it's stopping experimentation from becoming a habit that good parenting is all about and the way that you do that is to come down hard. The Sun
The point of attaching the parachute bridle to the carabineer is that then you can dangle from the hang glider as you come down under chute.
They used to come down in droves. Lost Voices of the Edwardians: 19011910 in the words of the Men & Women Who Were There
With only nine more needed after the interval it had come down to the batsmen keeping cool heads.
I have learned tabla and mridangam from a teacher who had come down to Durban not very long ago.
She dressed three times a day, and in the morning would come down in what she called a merino gown. The Vicar of Bullhampton
He told a conference yesterday that he wants prices for high speed Internet access to come down, or the Government would introduce regulations and legislation to bring prices down.
It's going to come down to how your behind looks when you pour yourself into them.
That is the policy which we have pursued consistently, with the result that direct taxation has come down substantially.
Here the chant alternates between monody and three-part polyphony, following the method of twelfth-century Parisian discantus as it has come down to us in the only extant work of Master Albert of Paris precentor of the Cathedral of Saint-Étienne, preserved in the Codex Calixtinus: the Congaudeant catholici. Archive 2009-03-01
Till the stone is lifted, and the Brahmins come down singing the songs that I know, and feed me with warm milk, and take me to the light again, I-- I-- _I_, and no other, am the Warden of the King's Treasure! The Second Jungle Book
He really didn't want to come down much but I didn't really give him a choice. (btw, he'd come down to Mexico from WI for the winter as the winter in WI is too harsh:)) In the mercado, if the price is right I don't haggle. To bargain or not to bargain?
Electrolux says prices could come down as production is ramped up.
If it really did come down to a commonplace usurpation, dominating usurpation, what could be more wounding? TESTIMONIES
Nose jobs have really come down in price, nowadays, and Brunette could be stunning with one of those cute retrousse noses. Bloggingheads!
There was also a big projection screen that would come down from the ceiling and over the fireplace. Times, Sunday Times
The castles were built by the dukes, and barons, and other feudal chieftains of the middle ages, and they are placed in these commanding positions in order that the chieftains who lived in them might watch the river, and the roads leading along the banks of it, and come down with a troop of their followers to exact what they called tribute, but what those who had to pay it called plunder, from the merchants or travellers whom they saw from the windows of their watchtowers, passing up and down. Rollo on the Rhine
Bernard Mullan, one of the Fascists who had come down from the Chelsea headquarters, was under arrest.
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My philosophy is normal orthodox philosophy, such as has come down from the Indians through the Greeks, to Spinoza.
Are you prepared to come down to the station later on to amend your statement? FORESTS OF THE NIGHT
Sae baith skaith an 'scorn ha'e come down upon me. The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century
It highlights that prices come down as well as go up and that payments rise steeply as a result of wider economic pressures. Home-ownership - differentiation and fragmentation
Several monitors have come down with heat rash and heat stroke this summer.
But she had attained this position not by practicing free trade, rather under a now-largely-forgotten protectionist policy that has come down to us under the name "mercantilism. The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
Her fin keel struck bottom, and her main topmast lurched and shivered as if about to come down upon our heads. Chapter 15
The single-engine Piper Cherokee had taken off from El Monte Airport, about two miles away, but it must have come down right away: it clipped the roof of a nearby house, cartwheeled into two parked cars and smashed into the freeway wall. Fallin’ Up
She explains that the animals instinctively know when the tide is ebbing, and thus when to come down to the shore to graze.
These tomes cost as much as $200 each, but the price will come down as tablet computers become ubiquitous in higher education. Times, Sunday Times
The text which has come down to us is only a fragment of the original.
German interest rates will come down before long.
Birds teach us something very important: To whatever height you rise(sentence dictionary), you will finally come down to the ground! Mehmet Murat ildan
Shadows offered only meagre protection, but it was protection I was thankful for as I listened to her footsteps come down the hall toward me, the steps slow and measured.
There is a cartoon on the reception desk which depicts Santa, having come down the chimney, looking at a plate of food which has been left out for him.
They always go up like a rocket and come down like a feather. The Sun
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But we just got our third Starbucks: Maybe people are so hypercaffeinated, they have to go to yoga classes just to come down from their frappuccino highs? ‘Yoga School Dropout,’ a Memoir by Lucy Edge « One-Minute Book Reviews
The revenue authorities have come down on me for the payment of twenty pounds income tax.
So I had no difficulty in spotting which drainpipe you come down by. PASSION IN THE PEAK
As the laborers saw it - ‘competition forces all employers to come down to the level of the most grasping, and forces all workmen to accept the rate of pay accepted by the most necessitous.’
In the mythologies that have come down to us, many cultures express this as a sexual union.
Heavy bars, however, may come down and conk you in the head so keep your hand on the bar to be safe.
And all the time I was praying that the kid wouldn't wake up, come down out of the cab, and put the "kibosh" on me. Hoboes That Pass in the Night
Give eferypody a chance, and -- mine gootness, I mighty near proke my pack dot time, "for he had come down with a tremendous thump, when his feet slipped out from under him. Boy Scouts on a Long Hike Or, To the Rescue in the Black Water Swamps
It is acknowledged, that in the end, in Web page design, decisions can come down to a compromise between the aesthetics and search engine visibility.
We think he will come down when he gets really hungry. The Sun
The man eventually agreed to come down after more than 16 hours sitting aloft in freezing temperatures and rain.
With no need to appease shareholders, the costs would come down. Times, Sunday Times
Rose would scold her about ruining her frock, Bethamy would be in a fluster about how unsafe it was and Elizabeth would want her to come down before they had a fight about it.
This is a series that was expected to come down to the respective bullpens.
Because he had come down at Ilitu's head, he saw the face inverted, a chiaroscuro behind the hyalon, lights and shadows aflicker as his lamps moved. The Stars Are Also Fire
Finally, she says human rights lawyers must come down from their lofty perches.
So when I say that walls need to come down, I mean that we all need to be more honest about what our jobs mean, why we work and how they can be improved, which means tolerance for talking *about* work in a social context. Workplace Chatter in the Age of Tweets « shattersnipe: malcontent & rainbows
They tried for hours to get her to come down from the roof, but it was no go.

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