How to Use bring down in a Sentence

bring down

verb
  • Pressing a warm, damp washcloth or towel onto your trouble spot can be a great way to bring down the swelling.
    Jenna Ryu, SELF, 13 Sep. 2024
  • Barrett aims to bring down inflation by reducing government spending and cutting taxes.
    Staff, Detroit Free Press, 21 Sep. 2024
  • The important thing is that the rate cut is almost certain to be the first of a series, which would bring down the cost of mortgages and consumer loans and give a significant boost to the economy.
    John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2024
  • Affordability will still be a big problem Lower mortgage rates can certainly bring down a homebuyer's monthly mortgage payment.
    Laurel Wamsley, NPR, 18 Sep. 2024
  • The Chiefs have Isiah Pacheco, the hardest to bring down.
    Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Feb. 2024
  • How to save money on road trips There are ways to bring down the cost of a road trip, too.
    Nathan Diller, USA TODAY, 18 Mar. 2023
  • The snow will be heavy and wet, the kind that brings down tree branches, and with them, power lines.
    Tovia Smith, NPR, 3 Apr. 2024
  • Cordeiro is flushed and brought down by Joe Golden after a gain of 1.
    Nick Daschel | Ndaschel@oregonian.com, oregonlive, 3 Sep. 2023
  • This jealousy then leads them to try to bring down others.
    Emily Edlynn, Parents, 15 July 2024
  • The Kids Ride Free program brings down the overall cost of free bus service.
    Justin George, Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2023
  • The Fed jacks up rates to slow demand and bring down inflation.
    Bryan Mena, CNN, 14 Mar. 2024
  • Projects meant to scale the industry up and bring down costs have faced trials.
    John Ainger, Fortune Europe, 2 Apr. 2024
  • The first one is the Robert Morris hack, the Morris worm, the first hack that’s kind of brought down the public internet in 1988.
    IEEE Spectrum, 26 July 2023
  • Clean energy policies make an easy foil in the fight to bring down costs.
    Justin Worland, TIME, 26 July 2024
  • If the film did go south, their music careers would likely be brought down with it.
    Alex Ritman, Variety, 1 Aug. 2024
  • On top of slick roads, high winds and icing may bring down more tree limbs and other debris.
    oregonlive, 23 Dec. 2022
  • The Fed has repeatedly mentioned labor and the need to bring down wage growth.
    Erik Sherman, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2022
  • A couple of hours later, the Palestinian flags were brought down.
    Minnah Arshad, USA TODAY, 25 July 2024
  • The Rams controlled the line of scrimmage, and Dallas never figured out a way to bring down Malcolm Brown with the first hit.
    Dallas News, 14 Sep. 2020
  • South Alabama’s Tolbert, who is 6-3, could not bring down jump balls as the two of them battled on Sept. 12.
    G Smith, NOLA.com, 24 Sep. 2020
  • The Biden White House has seized on bringing down the cost of health care as one way to tackle these economic concerns.
    Bo Erickson, CBS News, 6 Mar. 2024
  • The next step would be to make a longer commitment with the charter company, leasing the plane for a month or even a year to bring down costs.
    Rachel Treisman, NPR, 26 May 2024
  • That could bring down the wrath of the California Coastal Commission.
    Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 5 Aug. 2024
  • The Turtles face a moral dilemma and team up with the other mutants to bring down Superfly — a tale as old as time.
    Amanda Luberto, The Arizona Republic, 2 Aug. 2023
  • The sale brought down Apple’s weighting in Berkshire’s portfolio to about 30% from almost 50% at the end of last year.
    Yun Li, CNBC, 15 Aug. 2024
  • John goes on the run to clear his name and bring down some monstrous manipulators of Big Data.
    Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Mar. 2023
  • Part of the Fed’s reasoning was to cool the job market and bring down wages, which, in theory, suppresses price growth.
    Matt Ott, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Aug. 2023
  • Soldiers can also bring down Lancets with machine guns and small arms, but that requires being able to see them.
    Serhii Korolchuk, Washington Post, 13 Sep. 2023
  • Plus, smaller venues can also bring down the overall spending.
    Ana Teresa Solá, CNBC, 3 Aug. 2024
  • Three 6 Mafia was the longest of long shots, but the collective brought down the house performing with Henson during the telecast.
    August Brown, Los Angeles Times, 7 Aug. 2023

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