TUMBLE in a Sentence
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112 example sentences for TUMBLE, such as:
1. A loose rock tumbled over the precipice.
2. I shall think nothing of tumbling down stairs!.
3. A hundred and fifty empty bottles tumbled onto the floor.
4. The outer walls looked likely to tumble down in a stiff wind.
5. Share prices continued to tumble today on the Tokyo stock market.
2. I shall think nothing of tumbling down stairs!.
3. A hundred and fifty empty bottles tumbled onto the floor.
4. The outer walls looked likely to tumble down in a stiff wind.
5. Share prices continued to tumble today on the Tokyo stock market.
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Meanings and Examples of TUMBLE
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tumble
v. suffer a sudden downfall, overthrow, or defeat
v. fall suddenly and sharply
Classic Sentence: (103 in 7 pages)
1 The evergreen arch wouldn't stay firm after she got it up, but wiggled and threatened to tumble down on her head when the hanging baskets were filled.
2 Like that immortal hero, she reposed awhile after the first attempt, which resulted in a tumble and the least lovely of the giant's treasures, if I remember rightly.
3 Which decision proved that her second tumble down the beanstalk had done her some good.
4 It would make them sometimes hug, and sometimes tear one another; they would howl, and grin, and chatter, and reel, and tumble, and then fall asleep in the mud.
5 As if it were an absolute point of good breeding that it should tumble off again soon.
6 I redden, tumble over half-a-dozen words, and stop.
7 I tumble down before I get to the old place, at a point where I was all right before, and stop to think.
8 The children seemed to tumble about and amuse themselves like a litter of rough, good-natured collie puppies.
9 On the river front some of the houses was sticking out over the bank, and they was bowed and bent, and about ready to tumble in.
10 She'll take a tumble to herself, said Nat Hicks, sucking in his lips judicially.
11 He crashes down; earth shakes under the vast weight; dying limbs and brain-spattered armour tumble in a heap to the ground, and the head, evenly severed, dangles this way and that from either shoulder.
12 His hat was gone, his crisp long hair was tumbled in a white mane, his cravat was under one ear, and there were liquor stains down his shirt bosom.
13 His hands caressed her tumbled hair gently, soothingly, and his voice was gentle too.
14 Suddenly he shook her, shook her until her black hair tumbled down about her shoulders, shook her as if in a mad rage at her--and at himself.
15 The back door swung open and India entered, followed by old Dr. Dean, his long white hair tumbled, his worn leather bag bulging under his cape.
Example Sentence:
1 The outer walls looked likely to tumble down in a stiff wind.
2 Share prices continued to tumble today on the Tokyo stock market.
3 On the river front some of the houses were sticking out over the bank; they was bowed and about ready to tumble in.
4 He finally tumbled to the fact she had been deceiving him for many years.
5 A hundred and fifty empty bottles tumbled onto the floor.
6 A loose rock tumbled over the precipice.
7 I shall think nothing of tumbling down stairs!.
8 Above their homes, a burning flow of liquid rock has been pushing up from deep in the volcano, sending pieces of lava, tumbling down a gully on the south-east side.
9 Without having to go there, you'll be able to watch mature bears compete for salmon at Brook Falls and other sites and cubs tumbling over each other as they play.