How to Use send down in a Sentence

send down

verb
  • What planet does that guy get sent down that's a shortstop?
    — Aaliyan Mohammed, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Shaw hopes his days of struggling at the plate and getting sent down are over.
    — Jeff Vorva, Chicago Tribune, 3 June 2025
  • This season, he’s been called up twice and each time was sent down after a few days.
    — Tim Britton, The Athletic, 30 July 2024
  • My thinking is he should be sent down to reset his swing and his psyche.
    — Chris Kirschner, The Athletic, 21 Aug. 2024
  • The wood was sent down the 54-mile Sanger flume to get to a railroad.
    — Kurt Snibbe, Oc Register, 20 Sep. 2025
  • That has sent prices for Treasurys sharply higher, which in turn has sent down their yields.
    — arkansasonline.com, 11 Mar. 2025
  • That leaves two other moves to be made, and there are no good options to be sent down or released.
    — Andrew Wright, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 June 2025
  • These trees sprawl out, sending down roots that grow from their branches like ropes that children swing on.
    — Diaa Hadid, NPR, 6 Aug. 2025
  • Timpani and bass, meanwhile, are sent down to the lower torso and hips.
    — Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2023
  • Try to figure it out and you’re sent down a rabbit hole that leads to only more questions.
    — Curbed, 14 July 2023
  • See below for all the stars on the scene and all the Zegna looks sent down the runway.
    — Chris Gardner, HollywoodReporter, 6 June 2026
  • Sears also has options remaining and could be sent down.
    — Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Aug. 2025
  • There always was a call to make, a meeting to take, a player to call up or send down, bring in or ship out.
    — Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 11 Feb. 2022
  • Should he be sent down to play every day and regain some confidence and his mojo?
    — Kaitlyn McGrath, The Athletic, 23 Aug. 2024
  • The team created sultry looks to pair with the corsets and catsuits that were sent down the runway.
    — Essence, 13 Feb. 2024
  • A lot of players get so caught up with being scratched or moved down in the lineup, or even being sent down for a game.
    — Jess Myers, Twin Cities, 10 Jan. 2025
  • Zeus now became impatient with them and sent down a water-serpent which seized them and ate them all up.
    — Jill Lepore, New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2025
  • By the time Samanski was sent down to the Condors, there was a mild buzz about him.
    — Allan Mitchell, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2026
  • To be sure, a camera was sent down Thursday in a cage that was used to pull out survivors and bodies.
    — Mogomotsi Magome and Gerald Imray, Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan. 2025
  • In May, he was sent down to the minors for the first time since early 2021.
    — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 24 May 2024
  • The boldest choice, bar none, would be to send down Bailey, who has minor-league options.
    — Justice Delos Santos, Mercury News, 9 May 2026
  • Johnson began the year in the big-league bullpen but was sent down to Class-A to get stretched out as a starter.
    — Jeff Fletcher, Oc Register, 19 July 2025
  • The pigeons are sent down this dark tunnel and emerge in the world where there are shooters taking these pigeons out, one by one.
    — David Marchese David Marchese Photograph By Mamadi Doumbouya, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2023
  • When someone else won the job to play first base regularly, Claeson got sent down.
    — Paul Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 9 Apr. 2026
  • They’re sent down to the minors, cut, traded and scrutinized, often in a very public way.
    — Patrick Saunders, Denver Post, 11 May 2025
  • Estrada and Miller, high-leverage bullpen pillars, certainly will not be sent down.
    — Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 May 2026
  • So, say, Bronny isn’t getting any minutes and needs to be sent down to the G-League.
    — Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 30 May 2024
  • His marching orders when he was sent down were to improve the command on his mid-to-high 90s mph fastball.
    — Jacob Calvin Meyer, Baltimore Sun, 16 July 2023
  • Eventually, the player was sent down.
    — Dennis Lin, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2026
  • And after being sent down once in early May, he was demoted again near the end of June.
    — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 24 May 2024

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