come down on
Example Sentences
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Pressed by parents to act, school superintendents have come down on opposing sides.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 22, 2026
"It's very rocky, and the fossils are in cliffs on the shore. Paleontologists hate excavating in cliffs, because the cliff could come down on you."
From Science Daily ● Feb. 11, 2026
Few studies come down on the side of large-scale job destruction.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 5, 2025
“The reaction to their embarrassment was to come down on him as hard as they could, to compensate for the fact that they weren’t watching him.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 2025
“Kehaar’ll fly you up to the moon, Hlao-roo,” said Bluebell, “and you can come down on Bigwig’s head like a birch branch in the frost. But there’s time to go to sleep first.”
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
