How To Use Comedown In A Sentence
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Far from feeling like a comedown, the change of gear has actually revved up band and audience alike.
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For some of the non-American workers who were supposed to be the foot soldiers of a new technological era, the comedown has been devastating, and incredibly sudden.
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It was quite a comedown for a former super star with 446 career major league home runs.
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As if that wasn't shocking enough, by page ten I am trying desperately to hold my own in a world of strobe-lit flings and comedowns from drugs I have never heard of, described in language I never knew existed.
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Getting trashed on speed and sleeping off the comedown is my THERAPY!
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In those few moments, I was innocent again - untouched by grief and loneliness, cocaine-fuelled highs and comedowns.
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He started taking drugs at age 14, and he began injecting heroin because the comedowns after taking amphetamines were so bad.
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Far from feeling like a comedown, the change of gear has actually revved up band and audience alike.
Times, Sunday Times
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All those hoovers are great if you've popped a pill, but I'm so over that these days: mid-week comedowns hit a hell of a lot harder when you live alone and don't have a full-time job to distract you.
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It's a big comedown in one sense, a remarkable comeback in another.
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Is it a comedown to take a trip that doesn't set any records?
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Which must feel an awful comedown after five years.
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‘It was a bit of a comedown with me thinking I was making my first Hollywood movie,’ he says.
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What a comedown for the land known in ancient times as Arabia Felix, or Happy Arabia, whose rulers included the Queen of Sheba and whose caravan routes supplied frankincense and myrrh to the Holy Roman Empire.
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The film marks a real comedown for the director.
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The comedown occurred later rather than sooner.
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After the hectic year in hospital it was a great comedown to be treating minor ailments of fit young men, half of them anxious to avoid guard duties.
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I think it's not uncommon for people who have felt like that to experience a complete comedown when they get back home.
Times, Sunday Times
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Part-time football may seem a comedown, but he insists he has never enjoyed his football as much.
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What a comedown for the land known in ancient times as Arabia Felix, or Happy Arabia, whose rulers included the Queen of Sheba and whose caravan routes supplied frankincense and myrrh to the Holy Roman Empire.
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The prospect of relegation is a comedown for a club that finished second two seasons ago.
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I stopped when I realized that the comedowns were worse than the highs.
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Only 10% of broadband subscribers get its service now, a big comedown for a company that once had 50% of the Net-access market.
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E comedowns are generally spread over three days, gradually improving until you feel recovered by the fourth day.
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Would have been quite a comedown after the white wines from the Alto Adige that I tried.
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Which must feel an awful comedown after five years.
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Considering both the cinematic and literary sources of inspiration that marked the weekend just past, it is reasonable to compare the aftermath of this greasy and sugary happenstance to a heroin comedown, or something of that notoriety.
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The prospect of relegation is a comedown for a club that finished second two seasons ago.
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That is a comedown for Bangalore's development portal which was headed by a core team of professionals and eminent citizens.
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This is a sad comedown for the man who was once the most important figure in the comic book industry.
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The comedowns were a nightmare, and even the very peaks of the peaks were nothing much to write home about.
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It was a huge comedown for the star, who had owned a fleet of luxury cars.
The Sun
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When he was known at all, he was thought of as a writer of noirish detective thrillers, which were seen as a comedown from promising literary beginnings.
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There was a real comedown as a result of our chances being over-hyped, though.
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Caught in a whirlwind of high times, hard drugs and harder comedowns, the singer made a botched suicide attempt and began to overdose on a regular basis.
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They like the hit it gives them, but the comedown is really heavy so then they take some smack to get through it.
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On Dig Your Own Hole, Beth Orton's looping lament to wasted comedown mornings gradually elided into one of that record's most assertive beats.
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I got on a high, and the comedown was vicious, but I recovered from a bad hangover - and if there is a next time I probably won't drink as much and will read the side of the pack and go by the recommended dosage.
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They had been talking about going home and making scrambled eggs - which would be quite a comedown from last night's glorious dinner.
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The Super Bowl functions as a kind of comedown from the holiday season.
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That was a major comedown from the previous five games — four against San Antonio and one against Minnesota — where O'Neal was back to being his dominant self.
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And after the build-up the comedown: a shift in rates is taking some of the zing out of the mortgage market.
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It might seem somewhat a comedown for the nation's telecom commentariat, but the big issue in telecommunications for 2005 is municipal broadband provision.
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For someone who was one of the nation's top TV presenters, the chance to appear in the reality show represents a significant comedown.
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It was a huge comedown for the star, who had owned a fleet of luxury cars.
The Sun
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Forgoing the usual "comedown" finale, Magda instead closes the mix with Jimmy Edgar's "Beat Squared"/Jan Jelinek's "Tierbeobachtungen", whose punchy rhythm and synth blasts clearly nod back to the vintage sounds of Detroit, as well as Factory Records 'Be Music productions of the 1980s.
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There were a few kilted drunks doing the Tartan Army thing and it wasn't the worst crowd inside Hampden but after the barnstorming frenzies of Italy and Belarus, this was a heart-slowing comedown.
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In an attempt to postpone the comedown indefinitely, some people become addicts, taking the drug continuously to maintain a permanent high.
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It was a bit of a comedown in that we had to pack up everything and then spend 48 hours homeless - living in other people's spare rooms, our car packed to the gunnels with all our worldly possessions.
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Subtlety has never been a trademark of the Internet, so don't expect its comedown to be any less tasteful or underscored than its ascension.
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A slide from 74% to 70% ain't that big of a comedown.
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The prospect of relegation is a comedown for a club that finished second two seasons ago.
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After that, the title track is a bit of a comedown.
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These days he plays to audiences of a hundred or fewer which is a bit of a comedown after Wembley Stadium.
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The opening triumvirate is as strong as any string of songs he's written, and the wistful finality of the sweetly cathartic title track foreshadows a disappointing comedown.
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These days he plays to audiences of a hundred or fewer which is a bit of a comedown after Wembley Stadium.
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They don't like the comedowns, they don't like the way people they know act when they're coked up; they just enjoy talking to people at parties who are straight, when they themselves are straight.
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Typically, when offered good roles on TV, she didn't consider the small screen a comedown, but welcomed the opportunity to do some of her best work.
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Despite the speculation, the notion that being a senator would be some kind of comedown made no sense to Hillary.
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When Himes was known at all, he was thought of as a writer of noirish detective thrillers, which were seen as a comedown from promising literary beginnings.
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Still, his reputation is under assault - quite the comedown for a guy who is a hometown hero in both San Diego and Houston.
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The comedown was horrible because I wanted to sleep and instead I had to be running around doing errands.
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He feels that the commissioner job would be a comedown for the minister.
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I think it's not uncommon for people who have felt like that to experience a complete comedown when they get back home.
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