Sentence examples for a toppling from inspiring English sources

In "Peasant in the City," from the 1960s, by Krishna Shamrao Kulkarni (1916-94), a man and cow cower wide-eyed with alarm under a toppling wall of Cubistic geometry.

The first many people had heard of him was when, in early July, an avalanche caused by a toppling ice-block swept him away, with eight others, on Mont Maudit, beside Mont Blanc.

A1 Death Toll Grows to 7 The investigation of a construction accident in Manhattan continued as workers recovered three more bodies from a town house that was demolished when a section of a toppling crane slammed into it.

It's noteworthy that the Furious wreak the bulk of their collateral damage in Abu Dhabi; Jakande unleashes it mainly in Los Angeles, in scenes — one of which involves a toppling skyscraper — that are unfailingly reminiscent of the attacks on September 11th.

A talk story about the Ninth Annual Outstanding Mothers Award Presentation Luncheon at the Sheraton Centre... Brigitte Gerney, the mother of two who was injured in 1985 by a toppling crane, said that she had just been bicycling with her children & that she had survived the accident in large part because she was both mother and father to her children & knew she had to live.

But tourists aren't allowed everywhere in Hashima, since it's basically a toppling wreck of concrete and steel – pieces of buildings regularly fall off and might not mix well with the soft skulls of gaggle-eyed visitors.

First a toppled cone.

It lay rigid, like a toppled sculpture.

He fell like a toppled monument.

Kowalczyk points to a tree trunk several metres away, lying like a toppled sentry.

"The Death of Mutual Funds" read the headline, under a picture of a toppled dinosaur.