How to Use downfall in a Sentence

downfall

noun

• Their downfall was the result of several bad decisions.
• Bad decision-making was their downfall.
• But Take Note The only downfall is the size of the tube.
  — Phoebe Sklansky, Parents, 7 Mar. 2024
• Some have gone as far as to call for the regime’s downfall.
  — Bobby Miller, National Review, 7 Oct. 2022
• What was the reason for the downfall of the Song dynasty?
  — Scott Travers, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2025
• Boise State shoots 65% from the stripe, which will be their downfall if the game gets close.
  — Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 14 Mar. 2022
• Mordred is best known for his role in the downfall of King Arthur.
  — Sophie Hanson, StyleCaster, 15 July 2024
• Its downfall is the brioche, which ended up soggy and mushed in the bag.
  — Amanda Finnegan, Washington Post, 19 Jan. 2024
• Ye’s downfall has taken a turn to the deplorable and sad.
  — Vulture, 30 Dec. 2022
• But turns out, its downfall had a lot more behind it than just the ebb and flow of trends.
  — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 18 Nov. 2021
• The downfall of the Tigers began in the first inning, when Manning and Ibáñez teamed up to let the Rays take a 3-0 lead.
  — Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 7 Aug. 2023
• The final season could have been all about the Last Alliance and the downfall of Sauron.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 13 Oct. 2024
• And some of them may be critical enough to lead to their downfall.
  — Yec, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2024
• The movie follows this anti-hero’s downfall through the next 48 hours.
  — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 24 Sep. 2021
• Have a mimosa and toast to the downfall of crappy men in music!
  — Emma Specter, Vogue, 30 May 2025
• But others fear the new building will be the downfall of the largest art museum in the West.
  — Deborah Vankin, Los Angeles Times, 23 June 2024
• Pearl prepped his team, but poor shooting and miscues led to the Tigers’ downfall.
  — Nubyjas Wilborn | [e-mail], al, 13 Mar. 2022
• The final minute was Xavier's downfall in a 69-68 Marquette win.
  — Adam Baum, The Enquirer, 16 Feb. 2023
• In a year where so many lamented the creative downfall of rap, Ganger came along to prove all of them wrong.
  — Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 19 Dec. 2023
• There were times in the 2019 season when the UConn football team’s lack of size and strength became its downfall.
  — Shawn McFarland, courant.com, 30 July 2021
• That’s a downfall for the current glut of social-justice docs.
  — Armond White, National Review, 23 June 2023
• So all the stuff that’s going on in society that’s the downfall of us is cause and effect.
  — Quentin Thane Singer, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2025
• The arc of their downfall was not inevitable, and there is something to be learned from their choices.
  — Dennis Jaffe, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2021
• The Hamas war also saw the downfall of Hezbollah, which joined the assault against Israel on Oct. 8.
  — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 16 Jan. 2025
• The Falcons don’t prevent big plays very well, and that’s going to be their downfall.
  — Michael Niziolek, cleveland, 21 Oct. 2022
• The scandal that brought his downfall wasn’t Johnson’s first.
  — Garret Martin, The Conversation, 7 July 2022
• The crash signaled the start of the Great Depression, which led to the downfall of his presidency.
  — Rachel Schilke, Washington Examiner, 9 Jan. 2024
• His downfall came when he was convicted for the 2013 murder of Odin Lloyd.
  — Angel Saunders, Peoplemag, 4 Nov. 2023
• While from an emotional standpoint, falling in the NFL draft was likely hard on Sanders, the real downfall of being drafted much later than expected is the loss of money.
  — Seth Quinn, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 May 2025
• Lineker saw the good in projecting his political views to a social media following that ran into the millions but the posts ultimately became his downfall.
  — Philip Buckingham, New York Times, 19 May 2025