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How to use the word downhill in a Sentence?

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In coming decades, winter — as most people understand it — will get shorter and warmer, with less snow and more rain, this poses a serious threat to winter recreation: snowmobiling, cross-country skiing, and downhill skiing.

Robert Wilson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Now that also comes with the territory of aging, but when the language is more effortful on a daily basis, or the comprehension is going downhill, that’s a sign that someone should see a doctor for an evaluation.

Henry Paulson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

PPA may start with difficulty simply finding words, so people begin to use simpler words or more generic words for things they can’t quite recall, now that also comes with the territory of aging, but when the language is more effortful on a daily basis, or the comprehension is going downhill, that’s a sign that someone should see a doctor for an evaluation.

Henry Paulson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The city is not as safe as it should be and we don’t have bodies in position, which has a downhill effect, city leadership I don’t think understands that when your cops don’t feel like they’re being supported by their city leaders, there’s no morale.

Dennis Farris

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

We’re sold this bill of goods that says that we peak in our 20s, and then it’s downhill from there, this is just simply not the case.

Martha Stewart

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

It's fair to say for 10 years after 1997, maybe a bit longer, things did not go too badly wrong, but they've gone downhill since, partly because Xi Jinping and his colleagues are terrified of what Hong Kong actually stands for.

Chris Patten

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I hit the ground in the parking lot. And it was downhill from there, it was just' I'm so sorry.' It was such a gut punch.

John Mayer

Found on CNN
1 year ago

If downhill trend of Indian Stock Market continues even after 17-19th May then the share price of SBI State Bank Of India may reach Rs.295 or even Rs255 by the end of May month and Rs.145 by June

Lakshheish M Patel

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1 year ago

This is nothing like the 70s or 80s, crime levels here dip down and go back up, but it's still no comparison. To someone new to New York City New York City feels like things are going downhill, but New York always comes back.

Patrick Curley

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Things were going downhill prior to election night, there were things happening internally that showed real division within the organization … The whole thing had become very self-serving.

Sarah Lenti

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I’m going to look back some day and say, ‘This was the peak. It was all downhill from here,'.

Michael Avenatti

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We were able to feed off some good energy, in the second half we were able to get stops, get deflections and we ran down the other end like we were going downhill. We gained momentum and it became infectious throughout the whole group.

Patty Mills

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

He had superior acceleration in the hole, superior ability to block, superior ability in the passing game to run routes and make people miss, i thought Ricky was more of a downhill power runner and didn’t fit what we did necessarily.

Bill Polian

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The Neil Thomas and China are in a period of strategic competition, relations are overall going downhill, and that trend has continued through the talks today, but the fact that both sides wanted to hold this meeting... shows that that both Joe Biden and Xi Jinping still want to put some kind of floor beneath deteriorating relations, because they both know this is the most important bilateral relationship in the world. It has significant consequences for global stability -- for politics, for security, and economically.

Neil Thomas

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Sand is a big concern, if we drive downhill into a dune, we could embed ourselves into it and not be able to get back out.

Olivier Toupet

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Hopefully I can feel more comfortable, more confident to go downhill, to make more plays, we’ll see. We’ll see. I don’t know how tomorrow is going to be, but hopefully I can be in a position that I can make more plays.

Giannis Antetokounmpo

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We have been defunded, degraded. Our capacity to fight crime, investigate crime and hold people accountable when they commit a crime – all that is going downhill. And not to the benefit of the residents of L.A. County, as you can judge by the numbers, they are going in the wrong direction.

Alex Villanueva

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I think we kind of gave in a little bit, on the offensive end, shots really didn’t fall, and a couple of bad possessions led to a lack of effort on the defensive end — guys getting open 3s, Rudy getting a couple of dunks, guys getting downhill a little bit easier.

Kyle Kuzma

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Honestly, I would be surprised if we can point to this recent downturn as the moment in time where we turn the corner and everything’s downhill from here.

Ronald Hershow

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

We are on a ride downhill ... it’s gathering speed, i don’t see any exit ramp at this stage.

Joerg Wuttke

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

They always seemed to get it under control, but on July 29, it went downhill.

Delon Adams

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Nick Corderos has had a bad morning, unfortunately, things are going downhill at the moment, so I am asking again for all the prayers, mega-prayers, right now.

Nick Corderos wife

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I remember lying there thinking,' Well, you've done it now.' Really calm, sharon Osbourne got me an ambulance. After that, it was all downhill.

Sharon Osbourne

Found on CNN
4 years ago

These programs at the VA just kind of opened it up for me, before the VA, my health was just going downhill.

Brenda Sanchez

Found on CNN
4 years ago

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