tumble
verb (used without object)
to fall helplessly down, end over end, as by losing one's footing, support, or equilibrium; plunge headlong.
will be tumbling
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future progressiveof tumble.future progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that will be taking place in the future.
Example Sentences
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On Sunday, when team qualifying takes place, they will be tumbling and twisting and flying toward medals at the Olympic Games.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2021
Right now, the young salmon will be tumbling from these river mouths, bound for their feeding grounds, untethering from the land and hurling themselves into another world, one that is saline and entirely without boundary.
From The Guardian ● May 13, 2018
They figure that after that start the other fellows they want will be tumbling over themselves to get aboard.”
From Baseball Joe Around the World Pitching on a Grand Tour by Lester Chadwick
“You will be tumbling down, I know you will.”
From Norman Vallery or, How to Overcome Evil with Good by William Henry Giles Kingston
But there’s the sea; you know how the sea looks, never the same twice; because it’s still and full of ripples to-day, you don’t know but the waves will be tumbling over Judith’s Woe to-morrow.”
From Miss Ashton's New Pupil A School Girl's Story by Mrs. S. S. Robbins
