Sentence examples for long tumble from inspiring English sources

But yesterday's bankruptcy filing accelerated the company's long tumble from the top of the industry, which included the recent resignation of its founders, Jo Lernout and Pol Hauspie.

Based on the polls — including one from The Des Moines Register released on Saturday evening that showed Mr. Gingrich in fourth place, a long tumble from the top in the paper's previous poll a month ago — he could use it.

FOR a few days in mid-July, there really was a place where women who "smelled of wildflowers and smoke" and had "a long tumble of flaming curls around a face of rose and cream" could glance hopefully at men with "eyes of clear and calm blue that could harden to steel".

As Global Crossing, the troubled telecommunications company, made its long tumble toward bankruptcy, it became a big campaign contributor in New York -- giving more than $200,000 in 18 months, most of it to Gov. George E. Pataki and his Republican allies.

[C8.] Contributions by Global Crossing As the telecommunications company Global Crossing made its long tumble toward bankruptcy, it became a big campaign contributor in New York -- giving more than $200,000 in 18 months, most of it to Gov. George E. Pataki and his Republican allies.

And the euro, so strong for so long, tumbled below $1.49 to its weakest value since February.

The length of his hair, at least, is no longer a regular topic of conversation, although it is still long, tumbling out of his ski cap and resting atop his shoulders on Wednesday.

And it is on the first night of winter, when "through the window, the night appeared dense, each snowflake slowed in its long, tumbling fall through the black", that the couple, momentarily carefree, build a girl out of snow.

Dunn was an ex-trombone player, a jazz fiend through and through, and he took advantage of the volume and sustain provided by the guitar's electric pickup to spin out long, tumbling, feedback-edged lines that owed everything to Louis Armstrong and nothing at all to hillbilly guitarists or even previous jazz guitarists.

Albion had the opportunity to double their lead on the hour when referee Dowd awarded a penalty when Long tumbled as he tangled with Agger.

For the positive linear response with low β (i.e. long tumbling episodes), chemotaxis results from extensive tumbling with increasing attractant.