FELL in a Sentence

Learn FELL from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
383 example sentences for FELL, such as:
1. I fell victim to the office bully.
2. Scarlett's hand fell from his arm.
3. She fell off a ladder and broke her arm.
4. She fell in love with a penniless artist.
5. She shook the bag and some coins fell out.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of FELL
fell
 n.  the dressed skin of an animal (especially a large animal)
 v.  sew a seam by folding the edges
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Opposite the Varnum gate, where the road fell away toward the Corbury valley, the church reared its slim white steeple and narrow peristyle.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In I
2  The cat, profiting by this unusual demonstration, tried to effect an unnoticed retreat, and in doing so backed into the pickle-dish, which fell to the floor with a crash.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
3  Her glance fell on his hand, which now completely covered the end of her work and grasped it as if it were a part of herself.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In V
4  Her words fell on his ear with a strange shock of wonder.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VII
5  He had scattered the contents of the table-drawer in his search for a sheet of paper, and as he took up his pen his eye fell on an old copy of the Bettsbridge Eagle.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VIII
6  He drew the lantern nearer and eagerly scanned the fares; then the paper fell from his hand and he pushed aside his unfinished letter.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VIII
7  He fell asleep, and when he woke the chill of the winter dawn was in the room.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VIII
8  With the sudden perception of the point to which his madness had carried him, the madness fell and he saw his life before him as it was.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VIII
9  As they entered it the breeze fell and a warm stillness seemed to drop from the branches with the dropping needles.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
10  Scarlett's hand fell from his arm.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
11  Their lazy, blurred voices fell pleasantly on his ears, but his own brisk brogue clung to his tongue.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
12  The laughter and talking rose and fell in the dark night air, pleasant, homely, carefree sounds, gutturally soft, musically shrill.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
13  Despite her heartache and the pain of unshed tears, a deep sense of quiet and peace fell upon Scarlett as it always did at this hour.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
14  She knew no such troublesome thoughts ever disturbed the brains under the four flaming thatches in the carriage and, as always when she felt herself different from her neighbors, an irritated confusion fell upon her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
15  The house seemed bursting with the crowd, and a ceaseless babble of talking and laughter and giggles and shrill feminine squeaks and screams rose and fell.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
Example Sentence: (173 in 12 pages)
1  The police never caught him in any criminal activity but he eventually fell foul of the tax authorities.
2  One afternoon, I grew bored and actually fell asleep for a few minutes.
3  Sure certain and affirmation, I already fell in love with you.
4  She fell off a ladder and broke her arm.
5  She fell in love with a penniless artist.
6  As the curtain rose, the audience fell silent.
7  The deal fell through when the author received a more attractive offer.
8  The baby fell asleep in her mother's arms.
9  She shook the bag and some coins fell out.
10  The ball rose in a high arc and fell behind the boundary line.
11  She fell into a conversation with a man at the bar.
12  When he fell from the cliff, he beat his brains out.
13  He fell out of the tree and landed on the ground with a thud.
14  A young boy climbed into the apple tree and shook the branches so that the fruit fell down.
15  I fell victim to the office bully.