Sentence examples for be tumbled from inspiring English sources
verb
To fall end over end; to roll.
Some look for crockery shards, bottle stoppers, fragments of old toys, marbles — virtually anything that left human hands to be tumbled by the sea.
Cars tend to be tumbled over and over by tornadoes and, in extreme cases, carried aloft and dropped from significant heights.
I knew that they were inert plastic and could be tumbled without consequences upside down and half naked in the toy box.
Fragile fruits such as berries should be rinsed with a sink sprayer, using a colander so the fruit can be tumbled.
Agate, opal, jasper, onyx, chalcedony (all with a Mohs hardness of 7 or less) may be tumbled; that is, they may be placed in a cylinder with abrasive grit and water and the cylinder rotated about its long axis.
Above all, perhaps, "The Woman in White" shows how unusually attuned Collins was to the vulnerability of women in Victorian society and the ease with which they could be tumbled from their place.
Watch all the records - they'll all be tumbling," he said.
Some can be tumble dried; some should not go anywhere near such a machine.
How had this fruitful little scam been tumbled?
"It is my flesh that is being tumbled on the stones out there".
d the autoclave was tumbled at 60 rpm during the crystallization.
