Sentence examples of "talk down to" in English
My grandparents were German, and the language has been passed down to me and my brother.
Meine Großeltern waren Deutsche, und so wurde die Sprache an meinen Bruder und mich weitergegeben.
A lot of companies have pared their staff down to a minimum.
Viele Firmen haben ihre Belegschaft auf ein Minimum reduziert.
These houses were burnt down to the ground by the enemy.
Diese Häuser wurden vom Feind bis auf die Grundmauern niedergebrannt.
Tom and Mary were on the verge of diving, off the left edge of the sentence, in the infinite corpus, when they spotted underneath a shoal of hungry contributors, teeth out, ready to jump on them and shred their mistakes down to the last one.
Tom und Mary schickten sich gerade an, vom linken Rand des Satzes in die Unendlichkeit des Korpus abzutauchen, als sie unten einen Schwarm hungriger, zähnefletschender Mitarbeiter erblickten, die nur darauf warteten, sich auf sie zu stürzen und ihre Fehler bis aufs Letzte zu zerreißen.
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