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How to use down and out in a sentence

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Anyway, the views from the top are terrific, one way down and out of the valley, over the flatlands to the North York Moors.
It's based on an old tramp, he is a total down and out drunk, he's a grass and soon finds out that his life is going to end in a fire.
They can accept help, too, but it's easiest for them when they feel like they're not completely down and out.
I have no problem with giving a kid a sandwich for lunch if it helps his parents get by while they are down and out.
We are seeing, under this legislation, that that person will be down and out.
It's obvious the guy is pretty much down and out but at least he should be allowed one more chance of glory.
The parents, seemingly unconcerned for their daughter's immediate welfare, said they were down and out and could not care for the child.
But we should also find the E8 million needed for our down and out homeless in Britain.
He cares about the environment, the work situation, how you make a living, if you're down and out.
We were not down and out or destitute, which is the picture some people have tried to paint.
Everyone had a place to lay their head, and if you were down and out, there was always someone to share with you.
She did as much as she could for other family members that were down and out, helped whoever she could when she could.
Brothers Charles and Maxon are both mentally ill and in various degrees of being down and out.
But as a whole, these were just people who were out of work and down and out.
Within less than two minutes Tyson was able to do two things to Spinks no fighter had been able to, put him down and out.
I'm stepping up to a big task ahead of me, so I feel like I've gotta put him down and out.
He had given the Latics a half time lead then they looked down and out after being hit by three goals in 12 minutes just after the break.
He then struck a penalty but Yarnbury were still 15 points adrift at the break, and seemed down and out.
Yet to beat Australia at all shows they can do it, and coming back into that series after being down and out shows their bouncebackability.
The newly-crowned M.E.N. Open champion from Mobberley looked down and out after three rounds over the tough French course.
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They could guess that Kaiserism was dead and gone and Junkerism down and out.
It looked as if you'd have her hull down and out of the race, if you kept on.
It looked to them as if Patsy were down and out, to state it baldly.
A pair of seedy thoroughbreds, they was, seedy and down and out.
Two weeks ago he was down and out, broke, jobless, starving.
I'd been hunting through here when I was a boy, on vacations from college, and when I was all down and out it seemed a yearning came to me to go back to the country.
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