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
• 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
• The race starts and ends downtown each day at 4th Avenue and D Street.
  — Beth Bragg, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Feb. 2018
• Service for the initial downtown streetcar route is scheduled to begin in the fall.
  — Rick Barrett, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 21 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
• What space the library does have is overwhelmingly downtown.
  — Mark Dee, Idaho Statesman, 25 Feb. 2026
• Texas is everywhere, like the song says, but not in downtown Manhattan.
  — Craig Hlavaty, Houston Chronicle, 30 Apr. 2018
• The release said about 200 downtown customers were without steam heat.
  — Paul Egan, Detroit Free Press, 12 Feb. 2020
• Near the end, officers held a large gathering of people at a downtown street corner.
  — Maxine Bernstein, OregonLive.com, 19 Jan. 2018
• However, none are downtown, with the closest being in South Park.
  — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Oct. 2023
• The family also owns famed downtown meat-and-three Niki’s West.
  — al, 3 Mar. 2020
• Yes, this rat became famous for dragging a piece of lunch across the stairs somewhere in downtown Manhattan.
  — Fox News, 2 May 2018
• 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 fire would spare downtown Manhattan in this example, but affect most of the city’s boroughs.
  — Jon Schleuss, latimes.com, 15 Dec. 2017
• Find the other pigs in central and downtown Phoenix, Arcadia and Gilbert.
  — Jennifer McClellan, azcentral, 1 June 2018
• Whiskey was still a sleeping giant and downtown Houston wasn't a nightlife destination.
  — Greg Morago, Houston Chronicle, 16 Jan. 2018
• To entice shoppers, downtown street parking and Smart Park garages will be free on Saturday.
  — oregonlive.com, 21 Aug. 2019
• Heavy cloud cover Wednesday morning blocked at least downtown Portland's view of the celestial show.
  — OregonLive.com, 31 Jan. 2018
• 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
• Almost everything on this list is directly downtown, with two or so things being a 10- to 15-minute drive away.
  — Hannah Kirby, jsonline.com, 20 Dec. 2025
• Enjoy jello shots, giant Jenga, beer pong and all of the trimmings of a downtown Christmas party.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 12 Dec. 2019
• The largest default was downtown Dallas’ Harwood Center skyscraper which lenders foreclosed on last year.
  — Steve Brown, Dallas News, 23 Mar. 2023
• 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
• Our simulation shows that there is enough free parking just outside downtown Seattle that AVs would no longer choose to park in downtown lots.
  — Constantine Samaras, The Conversation, 23 Aug. 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
• 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
• 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

downtown

2 of 2 noun

• That store moved out of downtown Naperville last year.
  — Carolyn Stein, Chicago Tribune, 25 June 2026
• But this time, cows were found roaming downtown.
  — Chris Kenning, USA Today, 24 Oct. 2025
• Huddling downtown against the cold and heat.
  — Eric Adler, Kansas City Star, 6 Feb. 2026
• But my heart was always downtown.
  — Kansas City Star, 6 May 2026
• Surely room for one more downtown.
  — Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 13 May 2026
• The city said there are no changes to the viaduct, just a re-ramp into downtown.
  — Briauna Brown, CBS News, 25 June 2026
• Waller's 1839 grid gave downtown its bones.
  — Dante Motley, Austin American Statesman, 20 Mar. 2026
• Stores are closed, and people will be marching downtown in protest.
  — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 23 Jan. 2026
• Car rentals are available at the airport and downtown.
  — Lauren Dana Ellman, Travel + Leisure, 19 Oct. 2025
• Her district includes downtown where the project will be built.
  — Harrison Mantas, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 13 Mar. 2026
• That affects downtown workers and would-be tourists alike.
  — The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 3 Apr. 2026
• But Flewellen, who lives downtown, wasn’t too concerned.
  — Amy Wenk, AJC.com, 23 Jan. 2026
• Where did your interest in downtowns come from?
  — Devan Patel, Mercury News, 6 Mar. 2026
• Whiteville is about a 115-mile drive south from downtown Raleigh.
  — Mark Price january 29, Charlotte Observer, 29 Jan. 2026
• Whiteville is about a 115-mile drive south from downtown Raleigh.
  — Mark Price, Charlotte Observer, 26 Feb. 2026
• The new owners are based in downtown San Jose.
  — George Avalos, Mercury News, 28 May 2026
• The town’s busy downtown, meanwhile, is just a proverbial stone’s throw from the front door.
  — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 May 2026
• And now Koco Bell will spice up downtown.
  — Michael Deeds, Idaho Statesman, 11 Sep. 2025
• The downtown district is quaint and compact.
  — Erika Ebsworth-Goold, Travel + Leisure, 25 Oct. 2025
• All the major streets in downtown used to be one-way, for at least around 50 years.
  — R. Christian Smith, Chicago Tribune, 29 Apr. 2026
• Pangea has just reopened its doors, this time in downtown Dallas.
  — Imelda García, Dallas Morning News, 27 Mar. 2026
• Go to the streetcar website for a guide to parking downtown.
  — Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 26 Sep. 2025
• The school is about 40 miles south of downtown Nashville.
  — Natalie Neysa Alund, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2025
• At least one large-scale protest was already scheduled for downtown this weekend.
  — Jason Meisner, Chicago Tribune, 5 Sep. 2025
• And downtown workers will face paying half their hourly wages for parking.
  — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Sep. 2025
• The neighborhood sprawls for many blocks, a world apart from the skyscrapers of downtown.
  — John Bowe, Travel + Leisure, 18 Oct. 2023
• Greenville is about an 85-mile drive southeast from downtown Raleigh.
  — Mark Price, Charlotte Observer, 25 June 2026
• Yearly, hundreds of thousands of tourists walk the downtown streets.
  — Jeremy Helligar, Peoplemag, 18 Nov. 2023
• Strolling the streets of downtown along the scenic Rum River is a treat any time of year.
  — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 11 Oct. 2025
• One downtown site would be reserved for senior housing.
  — Ryan MacAsero, Mercury News, 11 Feb. 2026