How to Use mow down in a Sentence

mow down

verb
  • All the while, Walsh was mowing down the Rams.
    — Matt Roy, Boston Herald, 11 June 2026
  • Stems will be cut, plants mowed down, or maybe there's a bite or two out of each fruit before moving to the next.
    — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 24 June 2026
  • This can only end predictably with the regime surviving in some form and the protestors mown down in droves.
    — Melik Kaylan, Forbes.com, 22 Jan. 2026
  • After that, the four playable characters arrive and mow down waves enemies.
    — G Kirilloff, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Men who had fought side-by-side to defend their homeland just two years ago were being mown down by their fellow former soldiers.
    — Claire Wilmot & Gisa Tunbridge, The Dial, 12 June 2026
  • Jews have been firebombed at peaceful protests in Boulder, and mowed down with cars in New York.
    — Gayle Pearlstein, The Washington Examiner, 3 Apr. 2026
  • Baltimore starter Shane Baz mowed down the Boston bats for seven innings.
    — Gabrielle Starr, Boston Herald, 3 June 2026
  • Gavin Collyer, potential future closer who had eight saves at Frisco last year, mows down the Guardians in the fourth.
    — Tim Cowlishaw, Dallas Morning News, 3 Mar. 2026
  • But when healthy that unit mowed down defenses, paving the way for Jay Ajayi to put together a Pro Bowl season.
    — Omar Kelly, Miami Herald, 11 Dec. 2025
  • But inciting them to rise up and promising intervention, only to watch them get mowed down by the thousands, will be counted as an act of cruelty.
    — Karim Sadjadpour, The Atlantic, 16 Jan. 2026
  • The suspect then put his 2001 Buick into reverse and mowed down the victim and fled the scene, according to police.
    — Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 2 Apr. 2026
  • The result is a Los Angeles team that is absolutely mowing down opponents.
    — Rohan Nadkarni, NBC news, 10 Nov. 2025
  • On January 8 and 9, the Iranian regime mowed down thousands of protesters all across the country.
    — Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 6 Feb. 2026
  • Dozens of animals have been mowing down overgrown vegetation at Jay Peak near the Canadian border.
    — Jim Edwards, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2025
  • About twelve years ago, a contractor named Geary Blackwood hauled a massive flint rock to one of his properties, on a busy highway, to mark a row of mailboxes that kept getting mowed down.
    — Paige Williams, New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2025
  • Officials in New Jersey released 911 call audio from a deadly hit-and-run where two teenage girls were allegedly mowed down by a 17-year-old.
    — Adam Sabes, FOXNews.com, 28 Oct. 2025
  • Starting pitcher Jack Manion was methodically mowing down the Hornets until things suddenly went awry in the bottom of the fifth inning.
    — Dave Wright, Twin Cities, 11 June 2026
  • Manny Machado got the Padres back on top by yanking a home run down the left field line and off the foul pole in the fourth while King proceeded to mow down the Nationals with rare efficiency.
    — Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 May 2026
  • These productions took place just as the Great Recession was about to mow down the lives and livelihoods of dedicated workers, many of whom lost more than their homes as banks were bailed out despite their predatory shenanigans.
    — Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 18 Mar. 2026
  • Fifteen years ago, his predecessor, Angelo Vassallo, was assassinated—mowed down by nine bullets—after attempting to crack down on the drug trade.
    — Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 15 Dec. 2025
  • In the current era of Big Brother, in which one big alliance ofetn mows down the rest of the house with little-to-no resistance, revisiting a season-long duel between two distinct teams is even more refreshing.
    — Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 4 June 2026
  • Police have arrested a New Jersey box truck driver accused of mowing down a 29-year-old Queens man a block away from his home nearly seven months ago, police said Thursday.
    — Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 21 Aug. 2025
  • There was just one wild-card spot per league in 1999, and the Mets’ Al Leiter mowed down the Reds in a Game 163 to advance to the official playoffs.
    — C. Trent Rosecrans, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2025
  • The revolutionary fanatics running the Islamic regime aren’t interested in the welfare of the Iranian public, who were mowed down by the thousands when protesters took the streets seeking freedom.
    — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 21 June 2026
  • The return of Rachel Reilly was gloriously entertaining, there was no static majority alliance simply mowing down the opposition, and there were griping eliminations along the way.
    — Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 4 June 2026
  • And last week, as the Raiders got back in the win column, Jeanty totaled 75 yards on 23 carries with his third rushing score of the season, all while lowering his shoulder and mowing down defenders in an effort to pick up extra yardage.
    — Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Knight wrote his memoir while serving a 28-year prison sentence for voluntary manslaughter, stemming from the January 2015 death of Terry Carter, whom Knight mowed down with his car.
    — Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone, 24 Mar. 2026
  • The San José Police Department identified the carjacking suspect at the center of the incident, who shot and wounded an officer during a close-range gunfight before he was mowed down by a police cruiser and fatally shot.
    — Ruben Vives, Los Angeles Times, 23 Jan. 2026
  • And as Johnny Cage sagely observes at one point, these days moviegoers are more interested in watching Keanu Reeves’ John Wick mow down 500 opponents while armed with little more than a pencil.
    — Frank Scheck, HollywoodReporter, 6 May 2026
  • In a long-ago movie, emblematic of America’s uncritical, dangerous addiction to nostalgia, Kevin Costner played a farmer who mows down his corn field in order to create a baseball diamond so that the ghosts of former baseball players can come and play there.
    — Sayantani Dasgupta february 24, Literary Hub, 24 Feb. 2026

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