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Example sentences for "toppled"

Lexicographically close words:
topper; toppers; toppes; topping; topple; topples; toppling; tops; topsail; topsails
  1. The least push would have toppled me over.

  2. His storage batteries had toppled over to plunge into the sea.

  3. When she saw him open his eyes she uttered a little cry, then toppled over in a dead faint.

  4. Tabitha wheeled with a start, lost her balance, and toppled off the great rock to the hard ground, where she lay staring up at the fair-haired stranger bending over her with anxiety and alarm filling the pretty blue eyes.

  5. Step by step the Arab beat back his adversary until the latter's horse all but trod upon the ape-man, and then a vicious cut clove the black warrior's skull, and the corpse toppled backward almost upon Tarzan.

  6. Time and again some swarthy horseman threw hands above his head and toppled from his saddle, pierced by a deadly arrow; but the contest was uneven.

  7. A few ingots toppled from the higher tiers, a single piece of the rocky ceiling splintered off and crashed downward to the floor, and the walls cracked, though they did not collapse.

  8. They had been asleep but a few moments before, in a lurch of the ship, Rush toppled over with Jarvis on top of him, a ton or more of ore banked up about them.

  9. He toppled over on his back with a jolt that woke him up.

  10. He toppled over backwards with a quick roll of the ship, landing high up on the ore pile, sliding down to the bottom, protesting and growling at the boy who had been the cause of his downfall.

  11. The man toppled over, unconscious, and before the men could recover from their surprise two more of their number had fallen victims to the Iron Boy's shovel.

  12. The foremast toppled and fell in a shower of sparks.

  13. Jeremy heard a gasping cry behind him and a young sailor toppled backward from the thwart.

  14. Nat did not see the bayonet thrust given, but heard a low grunt, as he and his friend's corpse toppled over the coping together and into Badajos.

  15. It had toppled half over and lodged across the edge of a smaller cake.

  16. With a crunching sound the massive cake toppled and fell.

  17. There was a heaving, churning motion; then the compact mass of players toppled over, and he knew that they had succeeded.

  18. It wasn't the fumes of whisky that toppled him out of his chair.

  19. He reached out a hand gropingly, sagged, and toppled out of the chair to the floor, where he lay very still.

  20. At the very edge of the slough, possibly because its deep roots were imbedded in constantly-wet earth, a great beech had been partially toppled by a high wind that screamed through the grove.

  21. Sue traveled until near morning, then crawled gratefully beneath the thick branches of a wind-toppled pine.

  22. As the smoke filled it, it certainly showed an inclination to rise, but once out of reach of the warmest glow it toppled over and collapsed on the floor.

  23. The Chinese woman was so startled by his voice that she moved hurriedly back, and, being unsteady on her tiny crippled feet, she toppled over and fell, shouting to her husband to come and catch the foreigners.

  24. With a heave I toppled it and its ghastly frame together headlong into the fern, sprang to the saddle in its place, pointed to it, and with a shout of "Assassino!

  25. The second, as he poised himself on the coping, was picked off by a shot from the attics and toppled backwards.

  26. As he did so I leaped nimbly on one side, and he toppled over, head foremost, souse into the water.

  27. Before he realized his position he toppled backward over the brink and plunged down into the swiftly flowing current beneath.

  28. Again it fell, and with another shrill cry the man toppled headlong beneath the horse's feet.

  29. One of the poles on the side cracked, and the smaller cask toppled over and fell from the cart with a heavy bum-bum-bum-bum.

  30. Von Blusen turned just in time to meet Dick with a hard blow to the face, and Dick toppled over.

  31. As the man came into view, Bristow suddenly struck out with his right fist, and the man toppled over.

  32. Their roots were not firm in the shallow soil, and, enveloped like some pagan god in a mass of foliage, I toppled over the cliff and fell!

  33. Dragging the heavy body of Vadi to the brink of this precipice, I toppled it over, swaying dizzily as I watched it crash down into the poisonous undergrowth two hundred feet below.

  34. A rending crash came--a hoarse scream--and the big limousine toppled over into the ditch.

  35. How do I know but that a cliff, one of those ice castles, those leaning turrets, those frosty spearmen, have toppled over upon her?

  36. What other cliffs we might have toppled over the muse refuses to tell; for our faithful guide returned to say that it was not quite safe; that there were always shepherds and flocks in the valley, and that they might be injured.

  37. This made Dan feel sleepy, and he, too, shortly toppled over sound asleep.

  38. Kuhn toppled from his chair to the floor, with Dan on top of him.

  39. It toppled over with him, and nearly every one of the boxes he had piled up came down with a crash that made that part of the building shake.

  40. It toppled over sideways, spilling all the passengers overboard into the sand.

  41. So into the oubliette they toppled him, clapping down the door in its place above.

  42. He tripped up one of the Portuguese who couldn't speak English, dragged him to the cabin companion, and toppled him down the ladder.

  43. Well, the news is that the rock's acted as a can-opener to such fine effect that it's split a hole in the bottom of the strong room, and those gold boxes have toppled through.

  44. A gaunt corpse toppled and fell a few yards away; but Tarzan was protected from all these dangers by the wide-spreading branches of the sturdy young giant beneath which his jungle craft had guided him.

  45. The bull struck full upon the small of his back across the limb, hung there for a moment with the ape-man still upon his breast, and then toppled over toward the ground.

  46. For an instant he toppled there in a frantic attempt to regain his equilibrium; but at last he rolled off, yet, clutching wildly, he succeeded in grasping the branch and hanging on.

  47. Surprised and enraged, the bull clutched madly for support as he toppled sidewise, and then with an agile movement succeeded in projecting himself toward another limb a few feet below.

  48. Suddenly he stumbled, reeled and toppled sidewise--pitched headlong from the arch and hurtled downward.

  49. The chest toppled on over and struck the water ninety feet below, where the body of the servant of Bit-Yakin had already vanished.

  50. On one of these the boat caught her heel, with a jerk that flung the two oarsmen sprawling and toppled Captain Hocken's tall hat over his nose.

  51. Down toppled all that had seemed ignoble or literary in his talk, down toppled tiresome R.


  52. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "toppled" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.