As Spurstow was arranging the sheet, a big straight-necked hunting-spur tumbled on the ground.
It lay cut lengthways by the Indus under the line of the Khusru hills--ramparts of useless earth and tumbled stone.
They was so good, th' chapel folk, that they tumbledower t'other side.
It tried to kneel and make obeisance to Gobind, but it was so fat that it fell forward on its shaven head, and rolled on its side, kicking and gasping, while the marigolds tumbled one way and the tobacco the other.
The battered derelict ships rolled and tumbled and spun out there, slowly, unhurried, in a mutual gravitational field which their own Gormann '87 had disturbed.
They tumbled slowly, in incredible slow motion, end over end and around and around each other, as if they had been suspended in a slowly boiling liquid instead of the dark emptiness of space.
He ran forward, rammed his shoulder against it, tumbled through.
A big old Bartson Cruiser tumbled by end over end, a thousand tonner, the largest ship he had seen in here so far.
They were straightening the road, digging away hills, filling up hollows, and a corner of it had tumbled down.
Then he dragged some tumbled gray thing to her feet.
A few hundred yards from the dry dock it turned suddenly to the left and was at once lost among the tumbled masses of ice, where no trace of it could be found.
The smallest of the children hadtumbled head first into the osage-orange hedge, and could not get out.
When Mr. Andrew Browne tumbled into the cosy parlor of that bachelor's box at 4 A.
Peggy had gotten halfway up and her dark hair was tumbled about her flushed face.
I have never been able to forgive myself, Peggy, for clutching at you the afternoon I tumbled over one of these cliffs," a voice said unexpectedly at the girl's elbow.
Tumbled into the quarter-boat, he soon fell asleep, and waking about midnight, somewhat sobered, went forward among the men.
They pretty nearly got me; tumbled a couple of ton rock down when I was coming through that ravine and just missed my horse by about six inches, and they fairly singed my hair with bullets.
The treeless expanse of crests and slopes, lying like a tumbled green counterpane in the distance, was now as still and peaceful as if it had never known the turmoil of battle or the trample of armed men.
Without a word, his father's murderer tumbled backward through the doorway and rolled out on the ground.
She hopped upstairs to make her bed, But tumbled down and broke her head.
On Friday we had an uproar in the schoolroom about her hemming, and on Saturday she tumbled into a wet ditch, and tore her bonnet in the brambles; on Sunday, she twisted her ancles together at church.
I opened the door, and there was a flash, and a bang, and a smoke, and Ada tumbled down.
Reginald tumbled head over heels, exclaiming, 'I would not have been Phyl just them.
He went; the Dauber tumbled from his bunk, Clutching the side.
A crowd was gathering now to hear the fun; The reefers tumbled out, the men laid aft, The Cook blinked, cleaning a mess kid in the sun.
She had been through worse than that, when the iron curtain all but smashed her to a jelly, at Milwaukee, and when she tumbled into the orchestra, at Glasgow!
In a clawing, biting tangle of thrashing, transparent wings and black bodies, the two creatures tumbled to the earth.
They had tumbled from the whitish heap and now they made haste to hide themselves in it again, moving slowly and clumsily, with immense effort and laborious contortions of their bodies.
She, too, had neither tumbled draperies nor towsled head, but looked serene and dignified as usual, holding a bouquet to her breast with the one hand, and with the other thriftily guarding her skirts from contact with the pavement.
Supposing you tumbled off in the dark, and I found you gone when I came to look for you in the morning.
Phil tumbled back on the grass with a shout of laughter, for Pete was the old mule which Unc' Landy used for all farming purposes.
As Mr. Garrabrant called this out, and the two astonished scoundrels sat there, utterly unable to collect their senses, such was the complete surprise, through the doorway tumbled a crowd that hurled itself upon them.
Then an eager troop of aching lads tumbled out, to stretch themselves, and express delight over having finally reached their goal.
Nine little Injuns swinging on a gate-- One tumbled off, and then there were eight.
Five little Injuns on a cellar door-- One tumbled off, and then there were four.
But the strong arm of Father Valverde and his countrymen soontumbled the heathen deities from their pride of place, and established, in their stead, the sacred effigies of the Virgin and Child.
Enraged, he tossed and tumbled it about for some time, and at last spread it into one broad level plain, with the higher peaks standing out clear and sharp, like rocks from a calm sea.
We certainly had not much to boast of as far as walking went, when we got there, for the snow and rocks were tumbled about in a very wild manner.
During the rush through the woods the Lieutenant had tumbled and struck his nose on a stone.
But though they remained on guard the larger part of the night, nobody came to disturb them, and the only sound that broke the stillness was that of the water as it tumbled over the rocks below.
Fortunately, however, for the young captain and his companion, the hole into which they had tumbled was not provided with the sharp sticks mentioned.
He pushed his spectacles back, blushed, nearly tumbled over his chair as he got up, and backed confusedly out of the room.
A babel of laughter, of chatter, every now and again men tumbled against one another, like cubs in a cave, and rolled upon the floor.
He, Mr. Jones, had tumbledthe drawerfuls indiscriminately into his bag, and so mixed them.
He had been wild the last year or two, and tumbled into a few scrapes; but the probability is that he would have kept straight enough under more favourable circumstances.
Suppose the bottom of the hole gave way suddenly,' she said, 'and you tumbled out among the little Australians, all the sand would get in their eyes.
But anyway it was the longest speech the Lamb had ever made, and it charmed everyone, even Cyril, who tumbled the Lamb over and rolled him in the moss to the music of delighted squeals.
Twenty feet away, almost entirely concealed among the tumbled masses of boulders, was a small cabin.
As he stood there he heard a sound, and turned his face toward it, a sound that came from a mass of tumbled boulders, like the falling of a small rock upon a larger one.
But between the tumbled mass of rock the sledge had found its way, its savage driver not once erring in his choice of the openings ahead.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tumbled" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
