knock over
Example Sentences
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He got up to stretch his legs and knocked over a bottle of lotion.
From Literature
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With that, Pelicarnassus swooped his giant wings, knocking over nearly everything that was still standing in Zeke’s room, and flew back out the broken window.
From Literature
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“Heavens” was what Aunt Kitty might have sighed just then as she watched me strut, my full skirts knocking over the umbrella stand.
From Literature
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They eat people’s livestock in the country, and knock over trash cans and scare people’s dogs in the city.
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But after Algeria beat the Leopards on Tuesday, Algerian player Mohamed Amine Amoura faced a backlash for mimicking Mboladinga and falling to the ground as though the statue had been knocked over.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.