How to Use live down in a Sentence

live down

verb

• The Hlavaceks happened to live down the street from the Smith family.
  — Shanzeh Ahmad, chicagotribune.com, 18 Dec. 2021
• Like so many of the tastiest recipes, it was passed down from her mom, who got it from a friend who lived down the street from her.
  — Christianna Silva, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 June 2024
• His next-door neighbor was George Clooney; Jimmy Page lived down the street.
  — David Segal, BostonGlobe.com, 8 July 2023
• Many of the folks who make these goods might live down the street or work in his nearby restaurant, Red Rooster.
  — Marcus Samuelsson, Bon Appétit, 17 Nov. 2020
• Her brother lives on their parents’ old farm, and her sister lives down the road.
  — Nicolás Viñuela, NBC News, 10 Mar. 2024
• Martie, the pastor of CrossTies, knows the families who live down and across the street from the nonprofit.
  — Brianna Griff, Chron, 8 Aug. 2022
• Even though southern summers are gross, folks who live down here get used to them after a while.
  — Dennis Mersereau, Forbes, 26 June 2021
• Many of the staff members, who live down in La Serena, had retired.
  — Dennis Overbye Marcos Zegers, New York Times, 18 Apr. 2023
• Shaq and Chuck have since amended their case, arguing that Porzingis needn’t live down there.
  — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 7 Aug. 2020
• Barbies cemented a decades-long friendship with the girl who lived down the street.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 13 July 2023
• Bobby tells Dean that their parents live down the road, and Rufus (Steven Williams) also lives nearby.
  — Sandra Gonzalez, CNN, 20 Nov. 2020
• Michigan State won’t live down last week’s double-overtime home loss to Indiana for a long time.
  — Carlos Monarrez, Detroit Free Press, 25 Nov. 2022
• The mother of four children and grandmother to 15 lived down the street from where she was found and had gone to the gas station for cigarettes the evening before her body was found.
  — Jake Allen, The Indianapolis Star, 9 Feb. 2024
• Holstein and her family evacuated their home but got stuck in the mud, staying overnight at a friend’s house who lived down the hill.
  — Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 5 Feb. 2024
• David Dapper, 59, who lives down the street from a park, said homeless people camping there often wander by his front yard.
  — Abbie Vansickle, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2024
• In the final analysis, Long believes that Garrett will live down The Helmet and be remembered for so much more.
  — cleveland, 17 Oct. 2020
• But that was only one low note among many as the GOP majority lived down to our worst expectations.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2024
• That rules out Man 1 and Man 2 in your letter, but Man 3 — the guy who lives down the street from his ex — might just be a really involved dad who’s dealing with divorce paperwork.
  — Meredith Goldstein, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Apr. 2023
• This from a company that needed years to live down 2013 comments by its founder and former CEO that its products were not meant for larger women.
  — Phil Wahba, Fortune, 28 Oct. 2020
• The administration has often seemed determined to live down to that adage in the balloon affair.
  — The Editors, National Review, 4 Apr. 2023
• The producers and editors did the building for them, giving each a type (naïf, himbo, rock god, firebrand), which the cast members then spent years trying to live up to — or live down.
  — New York Times, 26 Mar. 2021
• The married couple is in a relationship with another married couple, who live down the street.
  — Clare Sestanovich, Harper's Magazine, 23 June 2020
• My mother never let my sister live down her grade school class heritage project, where she was assigned to bring in food that represents a country in her lineage.
  — Kristina Behr, Parents, 11 Mar. 2024
• For example, apartment dwellers might live down the block from a small park where a few strategic plantings could create significant impact.
  — Dustin Renwick, Environment, 10 Dec. 2020
• Old reputations die hard, and the other thing the school has spent a generation trying to live down is its University of Spoiled Children moniker.
  — Ron Lieber, Town & Country, 23 Feb. 2021
• Harshly judgmental and coldly self-interested, Rachel—who is divorced from Tammy Faye’s father—bans the girl from the church in order to live down the local scandal that the divorce sparked.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 24 Sep. 2021
• The responses sent from these women who unfortunately don’t live down the street, and therefore can’t be in my day-to-day mom clique, were equal parts hilarious and heartbreaking.
  — Helena Andrews-Dyer, Washington Post, 15 Aug. 2022
• Freddie was in Washington D.C., living down the street from a community center where a non-profit group was helping kids from the inner city, kids who were slipping through the cracks, toward dark places.
  — Gregg Doyel, The Indianapolis Star, 25 Jan. 2024
• Aldridge can operate one-on-one inside, but won't have to live down there because Phoenix's offense creates opportunities from all over.
  — Duane Rankin, The Arizona Republic, 16 Mar. 2021
• That day, Emily Baden, whose boyfriend (now husband) contacted the police, had traded accusations with Mrs. Alito, who lived down the street.
  — Jodi Kantor, New York Times, 28 May 2024

Last Updated: 18 Nov 2024