Below you will find example sentences with "stepped down". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.

Stepped Down in a sentence

Corpus data

  • Displayed example sentences: 20
  • Discovered as a combination around: stepped
  • Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 30
  • Phrase length: 2 words
  • Average sentence length: 24.8 words

Words in this phrase

stepped down

Meanings of words in this phrase

  • stepped can mean: simple past and past participle of step Frequent word
  • down can mean: From a higher position to a lower one; downwards. Very common word

Sentence profile

  • Phrase position: 8 start, 10 middle, 2 end
  • Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Usage patterns

These patterns show short text windows around the phrase in the example sentences:

51 recently stepped down as chief 1× boucher has stepped down as the 1× california alvarado stepped down in 1842 1× carol smith stepped down amid restructuring 1× chair umpire stepped down and stepped 1× david berger stepped down as commandant 1× edelstein who stepped down a day 1× entrepreneur has stepped down from the 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

a tech entrepreneur 1× a week after 1× after five years 1× after two decades 1× amid growing focus 1× amid growing tensions 1×

Common sentence endings:

a unity government 1× across party lines 1× and stepped in 1× and wells ward 1× bruce stepped down 1× chairman of wwe 1×

Context words

These words often appear near this phrase in the example sentences:

chairman 4× year 4× council 3× amid 3× chief 3× chair 2× day 2× earlier 2× company 2× role 2× president 2× decades 2×

Related phrases

shut down knocked down sat down breaks down slow down touched down doubled down burned down sit down breaking down

Phrases around this combination

Other phrases discovered around stepped:

stepped away 8× recently stepped 7×

Just before it in the phrase index:

stepped away stephen smith stephen king stephen colbert step toward step down

Just after it in the phrase index:

steve jobs steve martin steve rogers steve smith steven gerrard steven guilbeault

Other phrases with the same pattern

Same start:

stepped away

Same ending:

shut down knocked down sat down breaks down slow down touched down

Corpus analysis

  • The phrase "stepped down" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 24.8 words and is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as 51 recently stepped down as chief, boucher has stepped down as the, chairman, year and council stand out.
  • In the phrase index, this combination connects with shut down, knocked down, sat down, stepped away and recently stepped, linking the page to nearby combinations.

Example types with stepped down

This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:

Short example sentences

The Chair Umpire Stepped Down and Stepped In. (8 words)

For a brief time, he stepped down as Chairman of WWE. (11 words)

Amid growing tensions between leadership in Northern and Southern California, Alvarado stepped down in 1842. (15 words)

Longer example sentences

Amid growing focus on her potential involvement at the start of the year, she stepped down from her parliamentary role as chair of the subcommittee on human rights the same day she failed to declare a paid-for trip to Qatar in May 2022. (44 words)

Gardner, who was reelected in 2020, stepped down in May of 2023 while facing both a lawsuit from the state attorney general that sought her removal and a separate attempt by the Republican-led legislature to curtail her authority. (39 words)

And he was in his father's corner when he stepped down as chairman of the family business in 1967 to open Wolverhampton's first casino, The Oasis Club, based at a hotel on Queen Street. (36 words)

Example sentences (20)

The Chair Umpire Stepped Down and Stepped In.

He succeeds Yuli Edelstein, who stepped down a day earlier after shutting down the parliament for several days over losing his post and pressing for a unity government.

He stepped down as chairman of Shortlist Media in November last year after the company rebranded and closed down the print edition of its flagship men’s title.

After five years in the role, Colleen Boucher has stepped down as the president of the Cobar Branch of the Country Women’s Association (CWA).

After two decades at the Guildhall, he stepped down from Worcester City Council this month and instead ran for election in the district council’s Castlemorton, Welland and Wells ward.

Amid growing focus on her potential involvement at the start of the year, she stepped down from her parliamentary role as chair of the subcommittee on human rights the same day she failed to declare a paid-for trip to Qatar in May 2022.

Amid growing tensions between leadership in Northern and Southern California, Alvarado stepped down in 1842.

Amidst this turmoil, Erik Sønsterud stepped down as the firm's chief executive in the region in March, with chief operating officer Fredrik Tønnesen replacing him.

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And he was in his father's corner when he stepped down as chairman of the family business in 1967 to open Wolverhampton's first casino, The Oasis Club, based at a hotel on Queen Street.

A tech entrepreneur has stepped down from the top job at the business software firm she launched in 2018.

Austria's health minister Rudolf Anschober stepped down the following year, saying he was "overworked and exhausted".

A week after the incident, Smith stepped down from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences.

Delegate Doug Skaff, D-Kanawha, who recently stepped down as Minority Leader, expressed confidence in Hornbuckle’s ability to work across party lines.

Earlier this year, longtime Hearst Magazines publisher Carol Smith stepped down amid restructuring of Hearst’s advertising division.

Fellow BBC Radio 2 DJ Gary Davies has been temporarily hosting the show since early March when Bruce stepped down.

For a brief time, he stepped down as Chairman of WWE.

Gardner, who was reelected in 2020, stepped down in May of 2023 while facing both a lawsuit from the state attorney general that sought her removal and a separate attempt by the Republican-led legislature to curtail her authority.

Garlow, 51, recently stepped down as chief of Santee’s fire department, ending a decades-long career fighting blazes around the region, and city leaders honored his service during a council meeting Wednesday.

Gen. David Berger stepped down as commandant of the Marine Corps on Monday, but had no permanent successor to hand off to, leaving the service without a Senate-confirmed leader for the first time since 1910.

Greg Brockman, OpenAI president and co-founder, who stepped down from the board as chairman as part of the management shuffle, quit the company.

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