Example Sentences
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If your pilot suddenly keeled over, would you trust their spouse to fly the plane?
From Slate ● Jul. 24, 2026
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
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
It was more heart-wrenching than usual when Mercutio finally keeled over and died at the Metropolitan Opera House on Saturday night.
From New York Times ● Jul. 24, 2023
Ole reared up and made a last desperate effort to shrug off what was happening, but the sky seemed to crowd around his head, the earth buckled, and he keeled over into a strawberry bin.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
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