face down

Example Sentences

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A mock drowning in the pool, floating face down in the water as his mother does a butterfly stroke back and forth right next to him.

From Salon

Fiala, who was laying face down on the ice, was able to prop himself on his elbows but did not move his lower body before being placed on a stretcher and taken to a hospital.

From Los Angeles Times

Daylight investigations at the scene were also raising questions - Jenna was found face down with jewellery and her possessions scattered around her.

From BBC

That’s pretty much the right answer any sane, reasonable person would give because skeleton is among the most bizarre and frightening of Olympic sports, one which requires an athlete to lie face down and head-first on a small sled atop a sheet of rock-hard ice, then plummet down a twisting, banked mile-long chute at more than 80 miles an hour.

From Los Angeles Times

Abby crawled under the roof and lay face down on the pine boughs.

From Literature