Sentence examples for by jumping from a from inspiring English sources

Berryman committed suicide by jumping from a bridge onto the ice of the Mississippi River.

They escaped, they said, by jumping from a second-floor balcony onto a waiting military truck.

student committed suicide last semester by jumping from a high floor of the Elmer Holmes Bobst Library.

One resident whose clothes had caught on fire survived by jumping from a fourth-floor window, witnesses said.

He was kidnapped by the IRA but managed to escape by jumping from a third-floor window.

One of her granddaughters escaped by jumping from a window, but Mrs. Jones was trapped in her bedroom.

The first comes near the beginning when Dr. Richard Kimble, once again running from a justice system that has convicted him of killing his wife, escapes from his nemesis, Lieutenant Gerard, by jumping from an overpass onto a moving truck; he avoids being decapitated by executing a leap-and-grab maneuver that would have earned him gymnastic gold at the Sydney Olympics.

If Steve, the next time I happened to run into him, were to suddenly declare that he has superpowers and can't be killed -- and then, right in front of me, proved the point by jumping from an incredible height and surviving, or by exposing himself to dangerous levels of radiation with no ill effects -- I would "enjoy" watching that in a freakish kind of way.

No suicides occurred at Bloor Street Viaduct in the four years after the construction of a barrier; however, suicide rates by jumping in Toronto were unchanged because of a statistically significant increase in suicides by jumping from other bridges and a non-significant increase in suicides by jumping from buildings.

Without crowds of guests to cater to, the vintners are eager to chat, sharing stories about how they turned a hobby into a dream job, about how they came up with label names like Sneaky Pete or about how a neighbor helped to capture their runaway Afghan hound by jumping from the back of a moving pickup truck to tackle it.

Electrons within atoms absorb light of a specific wavelength by jumping from one energy level to a higher one.