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down town

NOUN
  1. the center of a city

How To Use down town In A Sentence

  • OPPENHEIM: Our story on Vidor, Texas, depicted a place with very few African-American residents, a place that, in the '50s and' 60s, was known as sundown town, where African-Americans were warned not to be caught after dark. CNN Transcript Dec 15, 2006
  • I whistled up my trusty steed and galloped across the badlands towards a rundown town, my mount kicking up grit with its hooves. The Sun
  • Who wants to go down town and see all the dirt and the filth, and the drunks, people spitting and weeing and defecating, which they do.
  • There was also concern that the car boot sale could be used to fence stolen goods and market stalls may further damage existing trade in the rundown town.
  • I told her I believed you would,” I told her to pack her trunk, and if she was down town near the time for the boat to leave for Cleveland, to call a drayman to take her trunk to the boat and follow it, if possible, before Mrs. Cassaday came in. A Woman's Life-Work
  • I whistled up my trusty steed and galloped across the badlands towards a rundown town, my mount kicking up grit with its hooves. The Sun
  • Hand Shake Dave a main instigator of aggressive strong arm prostelization is well known as a screamer of a Bible thumper down town as he uses a booming voice and an in the middle of everything presence as he 'witnesses'. The Register-Guard: RSS Feeds
  • It used to be known as a sundown town where blacks didn't dare go out at night. CNN Transcript Dec 15, 2006
  • Does her shopping at the mall rather than down town.
  • Also, you know, year ago they were called sundown towns, as in if you're black you want to be out by sundown. CNN Transcript Dec 12, 2006
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