downfall
Example Sentences
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Still, the post-Oscar slump exists nonetheless, fueled by a world that enjoys building people up before laughing at their downfall.
From Salon
His hope was to correct 19th-century histories of the Venetian Republic and its downfall, which, as he writes, “tend to veer between the inaccurate and the unreadable or, indeed . . . to combine the two.”
Following Mugabe's downfall, it represented the country's foreign affairs and international trade ministry for several years to improve US relations.
From BBC
For a few months, Zhang stood alone as China’s most powerful military officer until his own downfall in January.
For the Mirage, the push to commercialize hastened its downfall.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
