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cause to come or go down
The mugger knocked down the old lady after she refused to hand over her wallet
The policeman downed the heavily armed suspect -
tear down so as to make flat with the ground
The building was levelled
How To Use pull down In A Sentence
- A small crowd attempted to pull down a statue.
- It took her five minutes to check all the windows, pull down the blinds, and lock up. EVERVILLE
- At other locations protesters were seen digging up cobbles to throw at police and several tried to pull down fences to make improvised weapons.
- Indeed, in its press release, OPEC warned its members could resort to "voluntary downward adjustments of output" to avoid market unbalances, a code phrase for sagging oil demand amid a global economic slowdown and a pull down prices. OPEC Accord Helps Balance the Books
- It is easier to pull down than build.
- The Frog and the City Arms have closed; time has been called on Layerthorpe Working Men's Club; and now builders Jones Homes want to pull down the Gimcrack on Fulford Road and build 19 three-story town houses there instead.
- Stopping to admire an orchard, Kuralay jumps up to pull down a branch, and we scrump an apple or two. Wildwood
- So why is the gravitational pull downward stronger than ever before?
- It is easier to pull down than build.
- The mulish opposition that met his scheme to pull down the whole of the center of Paris and rebuild it according to his ‘rational’ and ‘advanced’ ideas baffled and frustrated him.
