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downbeat sentence examples

  • Downbeat about prospects.
  • It's seven o'clock sharp and the conductor gives the downbeat for the brass band to begin.
  • Downbeat ending.
  • The bouncy, uplifting feel of the music for this song belies the somewhat downbeat lyrical content.
  • It may sound downbeat, but judging from the sample chapter nothing is further from the truth.
  • The absences that you've been training yourself to recognize fall on the rhythmic counterparts of the backbeats, called the downbeats.
  • Downbeat conclusion!
  • Despite its rather downbeat image aa caters for all classes of society.
  • Interviews over, sergeant reflects that prescott is looking very downbeat for a winner.
  • Downbeat, depressing tone of the series is reflected in the feel of the ' black books ' bookstore.
  • He concluded, however, that they were just too downbeat to be of any practical use.
  • Downbeat songs, which was partly my original aim.
  • Most of the tracks have a blues feeling to them each very downbeat.
  • Downbeat note on which to end a novel.
  • But things look decidedly downbeat if you are a signal engineer with a mission to put right the degradation.
  • Downbeat view of future business prospects.
  • But it was a surprisingly downbeat evening, rather than a celebratory one.

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