1. For divorced people, Christmas can be a downer.

2. The weather was a bit of a downer.

3. What a downer that guy is!

4. Not getting the promotion was a real downer.

5. You lost your job? That's a real downer!

6. He's really on a downer isn't he?

7. We've been on a bit of a downer since the Liverpool game.

8. What's up with Ruth? She's been on a downer all week.

9. Otherwise, this trip begins on a downer.

10. The book is a real downer.

11. The music, though laughable[Sentence dictionary], isn't the main downer.

12. Downer was not on the plane.

13. At NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama scientists dosed spiders with marijuana, the "downer" chloral hydrate, the "upper" Benzedrine and on caffeine.

14. Australia's former foreign minister Alexander Downer is the U . N . special envoy for Cyprus.

15. The only downer is a nasty ankle break for Sheffield United's centre - forward Hulse.

16. Alexander Downer is the most senior government figure so far to evidence to the judicial hearing.

17. "The Downer is a person you have to let into your life with care because this trait can be contagious, " Yager says.

18. Leeds can usually handle teams who are on a downer when we play them.

19. United won twice away last month at Bristol Rovers and Wolves, while Birmingham are on a real downer.

20. His birth certificate, however, casts doubts on the marriage certificate's claim that a Charles Downer was his father.

21. Together they build an impressive wall of evidence - but their success carries a big downer.

22. Sure I want to play good, because the season there last year was a downer for me.

23. Owing to the short residence time, more uniform gas-solid flow and reduced backmixing of downer reactor, it can obtain more object products and the dry gas yield can be inhibited.

24. I, for one , have always found the opening line of Anna Karenina rather a downer.

25. The key problem of coking seriously restricts the stable and continuous operation in thermal plasma downer reactor for the coal cracking process to produce acetylene production.

26. Getting into an auto accident today was a real downer.

27. We guess she did what she could , but still, a pretty downer for the party.

28. Leighton is facing a loss of $7.5 million in earnings before interest and tax for every month of coal outage, while Downer faces $2.7m of lost EBIT for every month.

29. According to gas velocity, gas-solid fluidization has been classified into low-speed riser, cocurrent downer and pneumatic fluidization)in this paper.

30. I am finally taking medicine that suits me - an upper (anti-depressant), a downer (anti-psychotic) and a mood stabiliser (lithium) - and am more attuned to my symptoms.

1. For divorced people, Christmas can be a downer.

2. The weather was a bit of a downer.

31. In the aftermath of the Detroit downer, Damon did not mope around his Orlando home.

32. The suit comes after the largest beef recall ever, involving a California meat packing plant using so-called "downer cows".

33. I had an up - and - a - downer with my husband yesterday.

34. A security agreement is a symbolic way of building up those new aspects of the relationship, says Mr Downer.

35. LONDON (Reuters) - Caffeine addiction is such a downer that regular coffee drinkers may get no real pick-me-up from their morning cup, according to a study by British scientists.

36. Crude was due for a downer as the long side simply became overcrowded.