Sentence examples for fell upon them from inspiring English sources

At the moment the atomic bomb was dropped, the fence fell upon them.

She had not baked jelly rolls in fifteen years, and the whole family fell upon them.

"It seemed even sweeter that in pride of place should stand two men, Paul McGinley and Phillip Price, so unaccustomed to the limelight of stardom that they had to blink it back when it fell upon them," says Holt.

The citizens, seeing they were but few, and did not offer any violence, despised them; and, supposing that with their large numbers they might with ease overpower and cut them off before they got out of the city, fell upon them in the rear.

And the curse of all bright working-class boys, whether Jewish or not, fell upon them; for they grew rapidly away from their parents, whose ambitions had driven the children into the world they had no part in, and whose reward was at worst contempt and at best a vicarious success they did not understand.

As they fled, Tarleton's horse fell upon them like an avalanche cutting them down in large numbers.

He would fall upon them almost at curtain time, with brushes and palette in hand.

Whatever may fall upon them, there are still schemes and joys untried and en ticing.

Night, enclosed in small drops of rain, began to fall upon them.

We only hope that bad karma will fall upon them but there's nothing else we can do now.

Developed nations have better capacity for genetically engineering crops so the burden of research and development falls upon them.