mowed (down)

past tense of mow (down)

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for mowed (down)
Verb
  • In 2022, producers slaughtered more beef cows than ever before in the USDA recordkeeping.
    Brittney Melton, NPR, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Her time out in the world was brief; not long after her escape, she was surrounded by police cars and taken back to the plant, where she was scheduled to be slaughtered in a few days.
    Bailey Richards, PEOPLE, 18 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Defenders downed or suppressed 439 drones and 39 missiles, the air force said, with eight other missiles failing to reach their targets.
    David Brennan, ABC News, 5 Oct. 2025
  • Report downed power lines to the police.
    CA Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 3 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • In a statement following an attack days earlier where gunmen massacred at least 40 people in the rural fishing village of Labordrie, just north of the capital, Amnesty International called on Haitian authorities to take action to protect the population.
    Ychmuth Corneille, Miami Herald, 21 Sep. 2025
  • Principals told to stop calling police chief There was so much chaos in the minutes after the gunman entered the classrooms and massacred the children and teachers inside that school police chief Arredondo called the district’s communication chief for help.
    Matthew J. Friedman, CNN Money, 4 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Arsenal are now winless in three matches, seven dropped points in total, more than Chelsea lost all last season, and are fifth in the table behind Tottenham Hotspur.
    Megan Feringa, New York Times, 5 Oct. 2025
  • Hawaiian authorities also recovered a hat that the man in the security footage had dropped after leaving Tokuhara's clinic.
    Emily Blackwood, PEOPLE, 4 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Stocks were knocked down a bit in afternoon trading by declines in key technology names like Palantir Technologies, Tesla and Nvidia.
    Sean Conlon,Pia Singh, CNBC, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Mitchell knocked down the resulting free throw to extend Indiana’s lead to eight.
    Frank Nunns O'Connell 11 hr ago, CNN Money, 29 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Emma Stone was spotted speaking with Felix from Stray Kids, but both jumped when a crowd of guests knocked over one of the metal chairs — despite security’s best efforts to protect the central table.
    Rhonda Richford, Footwear News, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Small children and elderly people can accidentally be knocked over, so give your dog space or redirect their zoomies to a safer area like a dog park.
    Maria Azzurra Volpe, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Sep. 2025
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“Mowed (down).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mowed%20%28down%29. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.

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