Sentence examples similar to a few tumble from inspiring English sources

From the water, San Juan del Sur looked much the way Twain described it: "A few tumble-down frame shanties — they call them hotels — nestling among green verdure and overshadowed by picturesque little hills".

According to a law enforcement official who has seen the note, she wrote that her infant son, Keston Bacharach, had previously taken a few tumbles, including "two shameful incidents," a fall from a Gymini play set onto the wood floor when she walked out of the room for five minutes, and off a bed.

It's a tube containing a Ferrofluid – a suspension of ferrite particles – that is shock-resistant enough to survive a few tumbles.

Act 2: After a few tumbles, she would fall madly in love with the slopes and become hooked.

Anybody who dared to walk outside would end up looking like a mummy who took a few tumbles on a sand dune.

Yes, he had a few people tumble around him but he was there to take advantage and pick up a win.

As we are about to cross, you can just see a few remaining tumble-down wooden houses on the old city side.

The police initially said that panic spread after a railing broke on a footbridge over the tracks in the Allahabad station, sending a few people tumbling to their deaths.

The churchyard is now a playground, and there were only a few children tumbling as I ate a light lunch of salade aveyronnaise, with blue cheese, bacon and strips of smoked duck ($10 with a beer).

LONDON — Two sales of Impressionist and modern art held here this week at Christie's and Sotheby's highlighted a problem that is beginning to haunt collectors and dealers: How will the field perform when the ever-thinning supplies get down to just a few pictures tumbling into the market at distant intervals?

Learn a few basic tumbling moves like rolls, cartwheels, roundoffs, and back handsprings.