pressed down

Example Sentences

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Instead, she put on Bruce Springsteen's Streets Of Philadelphia, dialled up the keyboard's "synth strings" setting, and pressed down two keys.

From BBC • Oct. 23, 2025

Forearms that felt like iron cannons pressed down on my back.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 16, 2024

The glasses didn’t improve his eyesight, weren’t particularly stylish and uncomfortably pressed down on his nose.

From Scientific American • Oct. 10, 2023

The device pressed down with such force and grabbed so much that rocks became wedged around the rim of the lid.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 20, 2023

Lil with a kerchief on when I came in, which she pressed down, dragging her tubes up with her arms, pressing down the kerchief so that I couldn’t see that she had no hair.

From "Okay for Now" by Gary D. Schmidt