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

"The house will be tumbling on you in ten minutes!"

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864 by Various

"Somebody will be tumbling into the shaft, first thing you know, and then we shall have damages to pay."

From The Iron Boys in the Mines or, Starting at the Bottom of the Shaft by Mears, James R.

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 Chadwick, Lester