Sentence examples for in a tumble from inspiring English sources

The new things came in a tumble.

His rattling laugh sounds like bones in a tumble drier as he disappears down the hall.

You can't just have a bunch of cabinet ministers bouncing around the room like bollocks in a tumble drier.

To this jaded reviewer, playing the game was like drinking a bottle of vodka whilst spinning in a tumble dryer.

Schiaparelli then tacked these in a tumble to the bodice of a simple, elegant black evening dress.

Along the street, at Marly's Laundry, Wayne Stonesifer was waiting patiently as his clothes spun in a tumble dryer.

(Even "Saturday," which takes place in a single day, has enough incident to rival "24": a plummeting plane, a car crash, a break-in, a tumble downstairs, lifesaving surgery).

He allowed Fred McGriff's third-inning liner to go off his glove for an error in a tumbling slide, but starter Steve Trachsel overcame that mistake.

While perched in a tumble-down lookout in the forest with Trump's second cousin, Fritz, the village hunter, Wendel learns that Trump's grandfather, Friedrich Trump, announced his departure for the New World as a teen-ager, in a note left on the table.

Now it's a tepid agglomeration of parking lots and apartment towers, but back in the late 1800s, it was a great place to smell the vestigial stench from the Collect Pond, take in a street fight or two, get chloroformed, and wake up in a tumble-down hellhole with no money in your pocket, a big bump on your head and a great story to tell your friends.

There's plain conviction in that line, delivered in a tumbling falsetto.