Sentence examples for knife tumbles from inspiring English sources
The knife tumbles out of Papa's hand.
With a few gentle swipes of the knife, a heap of chicken tumbles from the spit, immediately scooped up and tossed onto an adjacent flat-top griddle.
Warburg tried to catch a falling knife, but the blade kept tumbling.
When I met with Picoult in Boston recently, where she was researching her next book, I remarked what a miracle it is that any child survives to the age of 6, given the exposed outlets, tumbling kitchen knives and thousand quotidian threats that are, in a new parent's mind, colluding toward an entirely opposite outcome.
But one night, when they pick up a hitchhiker who threatens them with a knife, Sam grabs the knife, stabs the rider several times and tumbles him out the door into a snowbank.
The scene is shot with an almost animalistic intimacy, a play of closeup textures: the contrast between the slick metal of the knife and the dry fibre of mushrooms; the glossy, blanketing tumble of finely chopped chives.
One of several such tumbles.
The world dissolves and tumbles.
