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Example Sentences
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As the Iranian motorcade left, demonstrators shouted "terrorists!" and surged forward throwing objects, with the police swiftly shoving them -- and the reporters behind -- backwards, as some tumbled over in the melee.
From Barron's
It had white shell beaches, pale gold sand, and tumbled black rocks where the spray threw rainbows into the sky.
From Literature
Shares tumbled in October when new CEO Mike Lyons slashed the company’s 2025 guidance for organic revenue growth.
From Barron's
Mergers are one obvious way that shipping giants can add to their overall capacity at a time when freight rates and container volumes have tumbled.
From Barron's
This, too, is predictable, but it’s always a rough watch, whether it’s Ilia Malinin’s tumbles in men’s figure skating, or Mikaela Shiffrin’s mysteriously nondescript slalom run in the team combined event.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
