How To Use Round down In A Sentence
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The island will not be ground down so much as wasted away.
THE EARTH: An Intimate History
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One reason may be that doctors get ground down by pill-focused patients who want quick fixes, and patients who can be superlative deniers about their personal health risks.
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In the '90s, most creatine monohydrate wasn't micronized (ground down to a very fine powder for better absorption in the intestines and causing less diarrhea).
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In fact, it’s just gorgeous, and in the kind of synchrony that seems to be happening all too often to me lately, Alex and I were wandering around downtown on Saturday and paused at an adorable pastry shop called Financier on Stone Street.
Gluten-free chocolate financiers | smitten kitchen
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One of these days, you'll see me on the news, wandering around downtown Baghdad with a dazed, desperate look in my glinty eyes as I stumble down the streets stopping the passing terrorists as they prepare for a fun-filled day of setting off improvised explosive devices.
Bluemeany Diary Entry
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a portion of the previously-crushed materials seems to have been subjected to some further attritive process, like that through which, in the mill, the broken grain is ground down into meal or flour.
The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland
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The greenway will be a four-mile walking and biking trail that will loop around downtown.
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One of the places in which Dawg lives is Chiapas State where the term "gringo" is considered a racial epithet so when you are looking around down there for Dawg to buy me some cerveza, please refrain from canvassing locals for the "fat gringo from Alabama often seen hanging out in the barrio plaza" or they might think you are disdaining me.
S.O.S.E. Security - Chapala
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If you've got liverwurst and onions rolling around down there, the delicate flavors of chocolate get overwhelmed.
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Most of the people were ground down by hunger and poverty.
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Walking around downtown late at night is just asking for trouble.
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When I think of the old Allen Street school, with its hard and ugly lines, where the gas had to be kept burning even on the brightest days, recitations suspended every half-hour, and the children made to practice calisthenics so that they should not catch cold while the windows were opened to let in fresh air; of the dark playground downstairs, with the rats keeping up such a racket that one could hardly hear himself speak at times; or of that other East Side playground where the boys werent allowed to speak above a whisper, so as not to disturb those studying overhead, I fancy that I can make out both the cause and the cure of the boys desperation.
XIII. Justice to the Boy
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Those who are ground down by economic circumstances ought also to be able to depend on the help of others.
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I think maybe he's spent so long grubbing around down there that he finds it hard to see the good in people.
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Industry experts put the turnaround down to the strong rebound in coal and iron ore prices.
The Sun
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The Section somehow got hold of a city tram and off we were -- about thirty of us -- in the tram, riding around downtown Prague, in the heart of communist-controlled Central Europe, for some two hours, with jazz music blasting from a tape recorder, drinking Soviet (if I remember its provenance correctly) champagne.
John Brown: Sanity Rally and Cold-War Public Diplomacy
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We wandered around downtown and found our way to the red-light district.
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If it is to be made into polished plate it must be ground down first with sand and water; then ground smoother still with a coarse kind of emery stone and water; next ground again with water and powdered emery stone.
The Story of Glass
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Industry experts put the turnaround down to the strong rebound in coal and iron ore prices.
The Sun
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People who for years had been ground down by high prices for the commonest necessities, considered seriously the question of the "salariat" joining forces with organizing labour under a banner that might be red.
The Masques of Ottawa
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The people are ground down by taxation; they are extremely poor; there are widespread diseases which are not merely epidemics, which are more or less chronic diseases over a great part of her frontier population, probably the result of contact between different races widely divergent in ethnical character.
The Russo-Japanese War
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The wheat has ground down to a fine white flour.
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The prominences left between the hollows due to plucking are commonly ground down and rounded on the stoss side, -- the side from which the ice advances, -- and sometimes on the opposite, the lee side, as well.
The Elements of Geology
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We stood around down by St Mary's church slugging back bottles of beer and singing ‘There is an Isle’ until we were hoarse with it.
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Unlike our boys in Japan, Steve is the red-hot favourite to win both the first round downhill race in Fort William and the World Cup itself.
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I could hear someone creeping around downstairs.
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Whispers around downtown predict major cutbacks soon at Forum East.
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He ground down the sharp metal edges to make them smooth.
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They scuffled and banged around downstairs for a few minutes, but then they were gone.
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Industry experts put the turnaround down to the strong rebound in coal and iron ore prices.
The Sun
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Now, castor beans sound pretty innocuous, but when they're ground down, they can be made into a product called ricin (ph), which is a deadly bio warfare agent.
CNN Transcript Dec 8, 2002
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Slaves were mercilessly ground down by slave holders.
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Mr. Obama also needs to inspire Americans who have been ground down by the economic crisis and Washington's small-bore sniping.
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Astronomers have long thought the asteroid belt is being ground down through collisions, but such a smashup has never been seen before.
Ianrandalstrock's Journal
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Average final score on the exam was 3.199 (a “B” - I round down to make up for my loosey-goosey grading impulses).
Discourse.net: Grading Update
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Metromover is an elevated tramway looping 1.9 miles around downtown with automated cars running every 5 minutes.
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But look here, this rail is so ground down that there's only a narrow gap.
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This rock can be ground down for road - building material.
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Must do Take a carriage ride around downtown.
Times, Sunday Times
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Whispers around downtown predict major cutbacks soon at Forum East.
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Industry experts put the turnaround down to the strong rebound in coal and iron ore prices.
The Sun
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Then I walk around downtown Cleveland, using the View option to study a random timeline as far up the 300 year Masterson asymptote as I can get (usually at least a quarter millennium).
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Industry experts put the turnaround down to the strong rebound in coal and iron ore prices.
The Sun
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I could hear Mom banging around downstairs, probably making something else.
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For the 1841 census it was decided to round down ages over fifteen to the nearest five.
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If the chips are quite minor, it should be possible to have them ground down and polished out, or the edges could be bevelled out.
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Then quick dash round downstairs, pick up some tops, ostensibly for work, but probably unsuitable with those necklines, and home within two hours of leaving the office.
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Here we find the highest mountains of Canada, some varying from ten to fifteen thousand feet, and assuming a grandeur which we never see in the far more ancient Laurentides, which, in the course of ages, have been ground down by the forces of nature to their relatively diminutive size.
Canada
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Ground down by years of abuse, she did not have the confidence to leave him.
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He's extracted the dentition for detailed views of Meresamun's jaws and teeth, which were severely ground down by the grit in Egyptian bread, and compared them with those from modern patients who grind their teeth, a condition known as bruxism.
Getting By On Her Looks
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A vessel in which the loss of ground downwind is minimal is described as weatherly, as opposed to leewardly.
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The wheat has ground down to a fine white flour.
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Most of the people were ground down by hunger and poverty.
