Example Sentences
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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 • Oct. 12, 2025
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 • Dec. 24, 2024
Ms Marten previously told the jurors she had fallen asleep sitting up in a tent and "keeled over", waking up to find Victoria dead.
From BBC • Apr. 17, 2024
“The emotion has to be balanced, has to be in check. You have to stay even keeled but play your game.”
From Seattle Times • May 1, 2022
Some sixty feet long, stripped to the deck, keeled over in ten or twelve feet of water.
From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
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