How to Use far down in a Sentence
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Scale may help kick the can far down the road.
—David Goldman, CNN Money, 27 Feb. 2026
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Then measure how far down the hanging hardware is from the top of the frame.
—Rabekah Henderson, Southern Living, 22 Oct. 2024
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If the clog is too far down, try using an unclogging gel from the store.
—Megan Boettcher, Better Homes & Gardens, 30 Aug. 2023
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Cut them back as far down the stems as needed to resprout new compact plants.
—Tom MacCubbin, The Orlando Sentinel, 26 Apr. 2025
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And a smart oven is likely to be far down the list of devices to set up again once that happens.
—Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 24 Jan. 2023
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The problem is Dart probably won’t fall that far down the board.
—Pat Leonard, New York Daily News, 12 Apr. 2025
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This far down the road, that isn't easy to do and is a testament to our storytellers.
—Dalton Ross, EW.com, 19 June 2023
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The other video still exists, though now it’s buried far down the page with a couple of others.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Feb. 2022
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Most dive as far down as the twilight zone, where the dim light from above rapidly dwindles to nothing.
—Stephanie Pain, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 June 2022
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So fame and money and all that stuff is pretty far down my list of things to prioritize.
—Erin Jensen, USA TODAY, 30 Mar. 2023
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Obviously, being able to see far down the road at night is a good thing for a driver.
—Ars Staff, Ars Technica, 20 Sep. 2024
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But who’s to say how far down the rabbit hole of local politics the game is willing to go?
—Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 24 Sep. 2025
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Scrape or cut the plant portions to determine how far down the stems the tissue has been injured or killed.
—Tom MacCubbin, Orlando Sentinel, 28 Jan. 2023
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The coverlet fits the bed more like a standard comforter than a larger quilt and doesn’t drape very far down.
—Rebecca Jones, Southern Living, 17 Feb. 2025
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This is a fascinating look at how far down the rabbit hole the world of collecting can go.
—Carolyn Wells, Longreads, 21 Oct. 2022
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Not far down the road, hopes are high at Crowley as well with new head coach Carlos Lynn.
—Lia Assimakopoulos, Dallas News, 28 July 2023
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Of all the sins that might damn your soul for eternity, mumbling is probably pretty far down the list.
—JSTOR Daily, 31 Oct. 2025
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Back-end processes that were far down on lenders’ digital road maps suddenly got pushed to the top of the list.
—Phil King, Forbes, 15 June 2022
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Not too far down the coast, piles of dead Dungeness crab washed ashore on Kalaloch Beach this summer.
—Isabella Breda, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Nov. 2022
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Being so far down, humans rarely, if ever, visit, and are not very likely to be disturbed.
—Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 25 Mar. 2026
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Wet Leg also seems awfully far down, on the ninth line, given that band’s heat at the moment.
—Chris Willman, Variety, 22 Mar. 2022
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From South Carolina’s viewpoint, slavery was very far down the list.
—Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 16 Jan. 2024
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His drops are far down the list of the limitations holding the NFL’s worst team back.
—Pat Leonard, New York Daily News, 6 Dec. 2024
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Before Morrissey could get far down that route, she was shut down by both Spiro and Sommer.
—Dominic Patten, Deadline, 12 July 2024
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In court, Nauta sat far down the defendants’ table from his scowling boss and could be seen at times leaning over to peer at him.
—David Ovalle, Washington Post, 14 June 2023
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These microbes, far down in the earth’s crust, have survived cataclysmic events over billions of years and may have helped to form the continents.
—Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 12 Dec. 2024
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With how thin the Ducks are at inside linebacker Boettcher isn’t going to be too far down in the rotation.
—oregonlive, 4 Sep. 2023
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And honestly, the hints at codependency were pretty far down a long line of Dave's red flags that popped up during the pods.
—Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 1 Mar. 2025
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Some nearby property owners managed to get a rope and rescue her from the waters, but Kyle was too far down the creek at that point.
—Summer Lin, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Jan. 2023
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Be careful not to cut too far down as Talabac warns this can hinder and delay further flowering for that year.
—Melissa Epifano, The Spruce, 27 June 2026
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