How to Use downtrodden in a Sentence

downtrodden

adjective
  • They were poor and downtrodden.
  • Not in any way, uh, a downtrodden victim.
    — Deborah Unger, Scientific American, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Joy is very downtrodden and in such despair, and honestly kind of like a rock in so many ways.
    — Vulture, 14 Apr. 2022
  • Optimism abounds for Democrats who have been downtrodden for over a decade.
    — John Sharp, AL.com, 19 Oct. 2017
  • Jim is downtrodden but morally upright and ever ready to help.
    — Tyler Austin Harper, The Atlantic, 12 Mar. 2024
  • Nearby, a line of the still-hopeful tried to rally downtrodden fans.
    — Mark Collette, Houston Chronicle, 31 Oct. 2017
  • My resting face is downtrodden.
    — Emily Nussbaum, New Yorker, 21 June 2026
  • The thought that one more person may have survived the blast had became a glimmer of hope in the downtrodden city.
    — CNN, 6 Sep. 2020
  • Thomas, hired to coach the school’s downtrodden boys basketball team in April, is no stranger to the school or city.
    — Dallas News, 25 Jan. 2023
  • Next time someone looks downtrodden or left out, take throwmeaway4352's words to heart and be kind.
    — The Editors, Cosmopolitan, 23 Oct. 2014
  • Whatever answers are ahead, they aren’t etched in the usual downtrodden spin of a low-end team with a high-end draft pick.
    — George Diaz, OrlandoSentinel.com, 27 Mar. 2018
  • Their report was uninspiring with a downtrodden forecast for the year.
    — Jj Kinahan, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2023
  • With the promise of brilliant spring dawns and thunder in the timber, who could feel downtrodden or depressed?
    — Brian Lovett, Outdoor Life, 8 Jan. 2021
  • The press reported that a downtrodden Becker had, for the first time, acted his age.
    — Angela Gaudioso, SPIN, 22 May 2022
  • The exuberant Daniels was much more downtrodden, and there seemed to be many thoughts running through his mind.
    — Shreyas Laddha, Kansas City Star, 28 Nov. 2025
  • Can the Lions find some magic against a downtrodden Packers team?
    — Richard Morin, USA TODAY, 3 Nov. 2022
  • Can these Tigers simply hang on over the final two months of the season to win a downtrodden division?
    — Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 7 Aug. 2025
  • Even in this downtrodden post-World Series era, Bochy has held his own against the Dodgers.
    — Ann Killion, SFChronicle.com, 26 Sep. 2019
  • But the Sox have played plenty of day games in bad weather against downtrodden teams since 2000.
    — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Apr. 2023
  • After the game, a downtrodden Lindor took more than his fair share of the blame for how far this Mets team has fallen.
    — Jackson Roberts, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Aug. 2025
  • Sanders is well on his way to restoring the shine to a downtrodden program that’s coming off a 1-11 season.
    — Mark Heim | [email protected], al, 9 Sep. 2023
  • Daniel asked, looking at the viewers with a downtrodden facial expression.
    — Saleen Martin, USA Today, 9 Oct. 2025
  • The Trojans were a downtrodden bunch for reasons that extended beyond the loss.
    — Mike Hutton, Post-Tribune, 22 Feb. 2018
  • By blending whisky with the tears of downtrodden fans, Crierball takes the same playbook and spins it into the world of sports fandom.
    — Stephanie Gravalese, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2024
  • In a matchup of largely inexperienced and downtrodden players, the group from Storrs earned a rare dose of game day joy.
    — Mike Anthony, courant.com, 27 Oct. 2019
  • Only the long-downtrodden Saints were willing to gamble on Brees’ shoulder.
    — Tom Krasovic, sandiegouniontribune.com, 17 Aug. 2017
  • Those ticket sales would be a huge boon to movie theater owners after the all-important summer stretch ended on a downtrodden note.
    — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Remember when Jay-Z was a dynamic hip-hop artist whose stark lyrics gave voice to the oppressed and downtrodden?
    — Paul Newberry, The Denver Post, 15 Aug. 2019
  • The project along Bayonne was intended to create a green community in a downtrodden slice of the city that had long been ignored.
    — Robert Wilonsky, Dallas News, 10 Mar. 2020
  • And Amazon threatens to suck revenue out of even the downtrodden cities bidding for HQ2.
    — Kevin Maney, Newsweek, 6 Nov. 2017

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