Example Sentences

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Downed utility wires and trees were scattered across roadways.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 10, 2025

Downed telecommunication lines and damage to infrastructure left residents cut off from the outside world.

From Reuters • Oct. 26, 2023

Downed planes that spent decades underwater were left so pristine they could practically fly again when archaeologists finally discovered them.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 22, 2023

Downed power lines can electrify floodwaters, and tree limbs and other wreckage can hurt people trying to move through water, particularly if that wreckage is below the surface.

From Scientific American • Aug. 30, 2023

Downed trees lay across the path every fifty or sixty yards, often with great bomb craters of dirt around their splayed roots.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson