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Example sentences for "fall from"

  • Illustration: "I suffered her to fall from my arm in a fainting fit.

  • A glass tube, containing the liquid to be experimented upon, is caused to fall from d.

  • For laboratory work recourse is most often had to a mixture of three parts of snow and one part of common salt, which causes the temperature to fall from 0° to -21° C.

  • The same is attained in special lamps, by causing a mixture of sand and finely divided magnesium to fall from a funnel-shaped reservoir on to the flame.

  • I should have slain him, but in that hour I did not seek vengeance, I watched it fall from heaven, and was content.

  • You will escape from this ruined land, and when you shake the dust of it off your feet its curse shall fall from you; you will return to your own place, and there you will find one who has awaited your coming for many years.

  • Two of them died--one from a fever that all my skill would not avail to cure, and another by a fall from a lofty cedar tree, which he climbed searching for a kite's nest.

  • He had been drawing a pension since a fall from a scaffold.

  • Fracture of the talus# usually occurs as a result of a fall from a height, the bone being crushed between the tibia and the calcaneus.

  • Backward dislocation is commonest, the injury resulting from a severe form of violence, such as a fall from a height on the palm while the hand is dorsiflexed and abducted.

  • Compound dislocations are usually the result of extreme violence produced by machinery or railway accidents, or by a fall from a height.

  • One, several, or all of the metatarsals may be separated from the distal row of tarsal bones--the usual cause being a fall from a horse, the foot being fixed in the stirrup.

  • I beheld Satan, as lightning, fall from heaven.

  • An anvil, they said, would take nine days to fall from heaven to earth, and as many more to fall from earth to the bottom of Tartarus.

  • In case of a fall from a height the wound or wounds might be in almost any part of the body, on the vertex or elsewhere.

  • We have already studied the situation of suicidal wounds and have also seen that accidental wounds are only on exposed parts, except when the injury clearly indicates a fall from a height.

  • Both kinds of wounds are usually few in number except in case of a fall from a height or a crush, though sometimes suicidal wounds are multiple.

  • Again, accident is often shown by the situation of the wound, which should be on an exposed part of the body unless the accident is due to a fall from a height, when the wound may be almost anywhere.

  • Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven.

  • Near the close of Christ's ministry, He said, "I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven.

  • I had read that the stars shall fall from heaven, and they were now falling.

  • To fall from such a blessed estate, that must be great misery!

  • But what an incomparable loss is it to fall from an heavenly kingdom, which heart cannot conceive, and that for ever?

  • You were about to tell us how I caused you to 'fall from grace.

  • I've had an awful 'fall from grace,' my wife says.

  • And this brings me back to my 'fall from grace.

  • A black eye, a knee injured by a fall from a bicycle, and a finger hurt by a baseball, are familiar examples of this sort of injury.

  • A fall from horseback, a carriage, or a bicycle may result in a dislocation of the shoulder joint.

  • Fractures may be caused by direct violence, as when a bone is broken at a certain point by some powerful force, as a blow from a baseball bat or a fall from a horse.

  • Gore, Bishop of Worcester, now of Birmingham, who is an adherent of Evolution, speaks mysteriously of a "fall from without.

  • Gore's "Fall from Without," so it will be better to take an example from the animal world.

  • In one case where it occurred in consequence of a broken ankle from a fall from a horse, it was preceded by evident hydrophobia.

  • I was witness to a case, where this disease preceded the locked jaw from a wound in the ankle, occasioned by a fall from a horse; as mentioned in the preceding article.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fall from" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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