face down
Example Sentences
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On the game’s first play from scrimmage, Mendoza took a ferocious hit that knocked him off his feet and deposited him on the carpet, face down, arms wide.
Afterwards, Gandhi presided over waves of civil disobedience protests, encouraging supporters of the Indian National Congress to manufacture contraband salt, boycott foreign goods, and face down phalanxes of lathi-wielding policemen.
From BBC
But they will have to wait to do the final side, because that side is lying face down.
From Literature
The Palos Verdes Estates Police Department received a call from a person who saw a man lying face down at the base of the cliff close to the 1400 block of Paseo Del Mar around 12:19 p.m.
From Los Angeles Times
At the workplace software company UKG, Bob DelPonte has asked colleagues in his team meetings to at least put their phones face down.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
