How To Use put-down In A Sentence
- The ease and humor that he displayed in his I-do-not-choose-to-run press conference should quiet the put-downs.
- He is not an experienced debater, given in the past to flourishes of synthetic rage at Nationalists rather than the humour and put-down his elevated status requires.
- He always savoured the chance to quash interviewers with one of his favourite put-downs: ‘Please desist from your perfervid questioning.’
- The rift with the rest of the ECB's council deepened in September when, in an interview with Bloomberg, Mr. Weber pre-empted the policy decisions of the council's next meeting, something that provoked a memorable put-down from the normally imperturbable Mr. Trichet. Was Weber Sacrificed for the Euro?
- He commands this role, speaking in a frenzied bark of orders, put-downs and overwrought egomania.
- Her verbal dexterity when delivering a stream of brilliant put-downs is extremely impressive. The Sun
- Constantly bemoaning his lot, he spouts an endless supply of cruel put-downs, although few of them have much effect.
- This strange expression comes from the north of England and is used, mainly by women in my experience, as a sharp-tongued and effective put-down of a certain kind of pushy, over-confident male.
- Drunken hecklers were a different matter: the only way to handle them was to unleash a volley of abuse, humbling them with a few crushing put-downs.
- Your mate will consider this a personal put-down and will immediately move into a defensive posture.
