Sentence examples for about to fall off from inspiring English sources

When the show's cartoon character was about to fall off a cliff, as an example, the viewer would stick the sheet over the screen, use a crayon to draw a bridge and watch the character cross it.

A day indelibly etched into the mind of one Alexander Walter Barr Lyle, thankfully for the right reasons, but at certain stages during his round it looked as if the wheels were about to fall off in a spectacular way.

"60 Minutes" is about to fall off the Nielsen Top 10 for the first time in 23 years, shoved down the list by shows like "Survivor" that apply souped-up versions of the documentary techniques pioneered by "60 Minutes" to a game show posing as a news event.

Venture capital judges itself on a ten-year cycle, and the riches of 1999 are about to fall off the index.

I'm about to fall off those heels.

Now he was about to fall off a cliff.

"Jesus Christ," he muttered, gasping for breath, "I feel like my joint's about to fall off".

But the economy may be about to fall off a cliff.

"We heard stories about people who used to fall off the old one," Ms. Findlay said.

Indeed, to judge by the economic policies being promoted by Mitt Romney, whom Mr. Mankiw serves as an adviser, neither Mr. Romney nor Mr. Mankiw has learned anything about what caused our economy to fall off the cliff in 2007.

Despite the fact that both sexes are more sexually active than ever before, from the age of about 30 women's libido tends to fall off while men's does not.