putting down

The consequences for not putting down the “insurrection” were further spelled out by the Kremlin.

The Southern Baptist church started putting down roots in the state (and a few others around the same time).

Instead, Assad had tasked the secret police with putting down the rebellion.

She'll have to move from place to place every few years, never putting down roots.

On her western frontier she was occupied in putting down an insurrection which had broken out in Albania.

"I should think you might guess," replied George quietly, while putting down his pickax and taking off his coat.

He was under age, but Sally had heard him speak of such manly things as "duty" and "putting down wrong and holding up the right."

That fact was made so clear to me at Rome, that I never dreamt of putting down your silence to laziness.

Putting down her glass of milk, she turned abruptly to the others.