Example Sentences
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It keeled over with a shriek of metal and hit the next lamppost, which collapsed sideways into the next.
From Literature
Both men were overcome with emotion during the ceremony, in tears, and Rinderknech keeled over and had to be helped into a chair.
From Barron's
"When I'm older, when the body's keeled over a bit, I expect I'll pick up where I left off," he said.
From BBC
Briggs, an entertainment lawyer, said he pushed for Sibley to become executive director of the commission, calling him “even keeled and even tempered.”
From Los Angeles Times
In the shadow of the spirea we keeled over, gasping in the grass.
From Literature
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