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fall upon
verb as in beset
Strong matches
verb as in lunge
verb as in pounce
verb as in raid
Strong matches
verb as in strike
verb as in stumble
Example Sentences
Someday, history’s gaze will fall upon this chapter and in that mirror the nation may confront its own failures, enduring an international shame too deep to erase.
"And so in that sense we wanted players to fall upon and see the echoes that they may not have noticed or have been using while they're sorting through all the echoes that they have."
He walked off the field under his own power, but walked gingerly back to the clubhouse as a hush fell upon a sellout crowd.
On his request, rather than being buried in Winchester cathedral, he was buried in a simple tomb in the graveyard "where the sweet rain of heaven may fall upon my grave".
The four eyes of my sisters fell upon me.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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