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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
- The sun was so strong we had to pull down the blinds.
- Now the advantage of our car is that you can just put the rear seats down and lay everything out as it was in the centre and pull down side seats and carry on in a civilized manner.
- It is easier to pull down than build.
- Pull down menus offer easy access to the multitude of facilities and options can be selected by mouse or keyboard.
- And the thought is we can pull down the nebulous notion of beauty and make it exact and precise when we tie it to the notion of function; but in fact this doesn't work very well.
- It will pull down your lower lip and raise the upper one to display your 100,000 pearly whites. Times, Sunday Times
- There was a great uproar over plans to pull down the old library.
- The apparent sticking point in the current talks appears to be the usual one -- the developed nations want to see the LDCs "liberalise" their economies, and pull down tariffs and restrictions to trade. Real World Economics -- Protectionism Is Not Always Wrong
- Use the pull down menu to select the type of screen saver you want to use.
- To field strip, make sure the pistol is unloaded, remove the magazine, decock and pull down on the takedown latch.
