go down

Example Sentences

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Iranian and American forces raced each other Saturday to recover a crew member of the first US fighter jet to go down inside Iran since the start of the war.

From Barron's • Apr. 4, 2026

You thought you would go down in U.S. history as a domestic Patton, a borderlands Sherman.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 27, 2026

Or, to put it another way, that if the stock and bond markets go down, your income would have to go down with it.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 26, 2026

“Maybe the first step,” she suggested, “should be to go down to Palm Beach and see who you could bring back home.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 25, 2026

The defeated soldiers tossed their muskets onto a growing mountain of surrendered weapons, a scene that would go down as one of America’s proudest moments.

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis