How to Use downtown in a Sentence

downtown

1 of 2 adjective

• The house is in the midst of the city's downtown historic district.
  — Karen Caffarini, Post-Tribune, 22 Dec. 2017
• The race starts and ends downtown each day at 4th Avenue and D Street.
  — Beth Bragg, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Feb. 2018
• His mind wandered to New York City and its downtown saints.
  — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2019
• Maybe open a comic-book shop on a busy downtown street.
  — Jon Talton, The Seattle Times, 27 Jan. 2018
• Many city festivals and downtown events take place along the mall.
  — Steve Lord, Aurora Beacon-News, 28 Mar. 2018
• Windows were blown out of downtown high-rises and downed trees and power lines blocked roads across the city.
  — Washington Post, 30 Aug. 2021
• But their new home isn’t in a Back Bay brownstone, South End condo, or downtown high-rise.
  — Boston.com Real Estate, 6 Nov. 2019
• The city’s downtown office rents jumped to a record high of $84.16 per square foot annually.
  — Roland Li, SFChronicle.com, 18 July 2019
• Find the other pigs in central and downtown Phoenix, Arcadia and Gilbert.
  — Jennifer McClellan, azcentral, 1 June 2018
• Service for the initial downtown streetcar route is scheduled to begin in the fall.
  — Rick Barrett, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 21 Apr. 2018
• Viewers may also use parking garages downtown St. Paul and then make their way to the river.
  — Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 5 Sep. 2019
• The release said about 200 downtown customers were without steam heat.
  — Paul Egan, Detroit Free Press, 12 Feb. 2020
• Texas is everywhere, like the song says, but not in downtown Manhattan.
  — Craig Hlavaty, Houston Chronicle, 30 Apr. 2018
• There’s been an undeniable uptick in downtown foot traffic, and a lot of that has come from weekend tourists.
  — Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 28 June 2018
• The fire would spare downtown Manhattan in this example, but affect most of the city’s boroughs.
  — Jon Schleuss, latimes.com, 15 Dec. 2017
• The family also owns famed downtown meat-and-three Niki’s West.
  — al, 3 Mar. 2020
• And more downtown apartments may be coming under a proposal for the second phase of Riverwalk on the Falls.
  — Cathy Kozlowicz, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 Feb. 2020
• Low temperatures around dawn dip to 40 degrees or so downtown, with mid-30s in the coldest spots well away from the Beltway.
  — A. Camden Walker, Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2019
• However, none are downtown, with the closest being in South Park.
  — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Oct. 2023
• For more information on FDFA and its downtown events, go to www.friendsofdowntownfriendswood.org.
  — Y.c. Orozco, Houston Chronicle, 5 Apr. 2018
• Yes, this rat became famous for dragging a piece of lunch across the stairs somewhere in downtown Manhattan.
  — Fox News, 2 May 2018
• When the Rogers Building was first built in the 1880s, much of what is now downtown Orlando was surrounded by cattle farms and citrus groves.
  — Ryan Gillespie, OrlandoSentinel.com, 25 Jan. 2018
• Near the end, officers held a large gathering of people at a downtown street corner.
  — Maxine Bernstein, OregonLive.com, 19 Jan. 2018
• To entice shoppers, downtown street parking and Smart Park garages will be free on Saturday.
  — oregonlive.com, 21 Aug. 2019
• Back in 2018, Prada put Pradamalia figurines — monkeys that looked like blackface — on display in its downtown New York store.
  — Sara Radin, refinery29.com, 6 Feb. 2020
• Enjoy jello shots, giant Jenga, beer pong and all of the trimmings of a downtown Christmas party.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 12 Dec. 2019
• An apartment building that would be downtown Fort Worth's first new residential high rise in nearly 30 years could be back in play with some tax breaks from the city.
  — Dallas News, 21 Aug. 2019
• In the past decade, companies like Facebook, Google, and Salesforce, wanting to be closer to where their workers live, have rushed to snap up downtown office space.
  — Gregory Barber, Wired, 5 Feb. 2020
• The one thing to get you in the spirit: Ice skating with someone special at the picture-perfect ice rink, located near the downtown Christmas market.
  — Caitlin Morton, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Dec. 2019
• Heavy cloud cover Wednesday morning blocked at least downtown Portland's view of the celestial show.
  — OregonLive.com, 31 Jan. 2018

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downtown

2 of 2 noun

• Lows range through the 60s over the region (warmest downtown and coolest north and west of the Beltway).
  — Jason Samenow, Washington Post, 10 July 2023
• The neighborhood sprawls for many blocks, a world apart from the skyscrapers of downtown.
  — John Bowe, Travel + Leisure, 18 Oct. 2023
• But one of the biggest hurdles remained: a lack of child care in the area, which is about 20 miles from downtown.
  — Abha Bhattarai, Washington Post, 29 Oct. 2023
• Yonatan, in a T-shirt and shorts, walked into the Foreign Ministry in downtown Jerusalem.
  — Kevin Sieff, Washington Post, 7 Nov. 2023
• Among his works is the 30-foot acrylic prism in the Federal Courthouse downtown.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Oct. 2023
• Nights are seasonably balmy with lows from the mid-60s in our cooler areas to the low to mid-70s downtown.
  — Jason Samenow, Washington Post, 14 Aug. 2023
• The kitchen is in the basement of a building in the Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist complex downtown, and guests dine in a room on the first floor.
  — Sophie Carson, Journal Sentinel, 9 Apr. 2024
• Yearly, hundreds of thousands of tourists walk the downtown streets.
  — Jeremy Helligar, Peoplemag, 18 Nov. 2023
• The area is near a golf club about five miles southeast of downtown Birmingham.
  — Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 7 Sep. 2023
• The event celebrates the culinary talents of downtown’s renowned chefs and food scene.
  — cleveland, 26 Aug. 2023
• Knox said the curfew efforts have been successful in the downtown area.
  — Tony Roberts, Baltimore Sun, 27 June 2023
• On the day of the incident, Shakir had joined a group of protesters marching in downtown.
  — Libor Jany, Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2023
• New leases are being signed in the downtown area and other parts of the city in every single day.
  — ABC News, 19 Nov. 2023
• Four downtown business owners spoke to the council in support of the effort.
  — Stacy Ryburn, Arkansas Online, 2 Aug. 2023
• The fair, in Dallas' Fair Park southeast of downtown, was scheduled to run through next weekend.
  — Dennis Romero, NBC News, 15 Oct. 2023
• The arrival of the truck pulling the trailer downtown was not a spontaneous occurrence.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 17 Sep. 2023
• At Cocoa Beach, enjoy the water, soak in the sun, or spend the afternoon in downtown Cocoa Beach.
  — Marisa Spyker, Southern Living, 7 July 2023
• Siegel gave the downtown audience the 90-second version of the origin story.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 18 Dec. 2023
• The students have organized multiple events on campus and in downtown Austin in the last month.
  — Rich Schapiro, NBC News, 11 Nov. 2023
• On wide downtown blocks, bus stops are curbside, but on narrower streets they’re set back behind the grass line.
  — Andrew Leland, The New Yorker, 8 July 2023
• Margaux’s Wine, Pizza & Market, which opened in 2021, is located right in the heart of downtown Pineville.
  — Chyna Blackmon, Charlotte Observer, 21 Feb. 2024
• That was when Vogt made the decision to drop the family off at the house five miles from Lahaina and grab his father to help move the boats from the downtown harbor area.
  — Susan Young, Peoplemag, 13 Aug. 2023
• Seconds later, the train doors open at the Hoyt-Schermerhorn station near downtown Brooklyn as the two men fight once more.
  — Jeff Winter, CNN, 15 Mar. 2024
• City government seems to be highly focused on downtown, with a bit of Chula Vista and City Heights.
  — Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 July 2023
• Those looking for a sunlit aerie in the heart of downtown Manhattan may not need to further than this triplex penthouse.
  — Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 18 Dec. 2023
• Mayor Clark Hill said new businesses, like a brewery, are opening in the downtown area.
  — Ben Tracy, CBS News, 4 Oct. 2023
• Preliminary rain gauges have shown three hours’ worth of rain in just 15 minutes in some areas of downtown.
  — David Chiu, Peoplemag, 19 Sep. 2023
• Fahy uploaded a picture of the two of them (seen from behind), walking with their arms around each other in downtown New York City.
  — Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 20 Feb. 2024
• Within a three week span there was a nonfatal shooting, a stabbing and a rape at gunpoint, all in the downtown Towson area.
  — Katia Parks, Baltimore Sun, 25 Aug. 2023
• Heading into downtown, though, displays a much less glamorous version of the city.
  — Justin Klawans, The Week, 26 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 6 May 2024