let down

How To Use let down In A Sentence

• He let down a bucket into the well to draw water.
• In any unwieldy bureaucratic system there will be some in need who will be let down by officialdom. The Sun
• They feel that they have been let down by the Government, the employers and now by their own union.
• On the whole I found the films kind of a let down (I’ll never brag about having film in Annecy again ..) but it was worth it for one film, I think the best short film I’ve ever seen: Skhizein, which won the audience award. Sydneypadua.com » Blog Archive » Things I Draw When I’ve Had a Few
• The "gharry" makes an excellent perambulating studio -- it is a small, high, wooden cab, with little lattice shutters instead of glass which pull up all round so that you can let down those you need for view, aft or forward, or at either side, and pull up the others and thus have privacy and light and air, and you need no stove or hot pipes, for you could roast a partridge inside! From Edinburgh to India & Burmah
• Every year on St Paul's day, while the soloist on the ambo sang the melodies of the fourth vigiliary responsory, the Pope, entering, as we have said, into the camera confessionis, withdrew the censer - which had been let down through the hole on to the tomb of the apostle at this same Office in the preceding year, and introduced another also full of burning incense. The Station at St Paul
• Lady Kicklebury wears a front, and, I make no doubt, a complete jasey; or she certainly would have let down her back hair at this minute, so overpowering were her feelings, and so bitter her indignation at her daughter's black ingratitude. The Christmas Books of Mr. M.A. Titmarsh
• Many thousands felt let down by their aborted duel at York last month. Times, Sunday Times
• We actually got let down by a 2.50 part on the car battery terminal that failed. Times, Sunday Times
• Conservative councillors, who have been campaigning for a weekly clean, said they were dismayed by the decision and felt residents had been let down.