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View definitions for fall upon

fall upon

verb as in come at

verb as in lunge

verb as in pounce

verb as in strike

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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.

From Salon

"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."

From BBC

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".

From BBC

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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