Sentence examples for painful fall from inspiring English sources

When things start to unravel, leverage aggravates an already painful fall.

This bare-bones scene reminded me of the young child who takes a painful fall and then wails for reassurance.

ROCKETS 86, TRAIL BLAZERS 83: Steve Francis overcame a painful fall to score the Rockets' final 16 points in Houston.

In my response, I told her that despite his painful fall ending his park play, Bug announced, "I love Lila," during the car ride home.

Just look at newspapers, where a painful fall in advertising in 2008 was followed by another steep drop in 2009, with a further fall expected this year.

Napoli's decline was more gradual, the team finishing fourth the next season before commencing a protracted and painful fall from grace, precipitated by boardroom turmoil and mounting debts.

Remember the painful fall-out from the competition to donate a stained glass window to the local church?

They call the break-up of Messrs. Obama and Wright a "long and painful falling out".

Theirs was a long and painful falling out, marked by a degree of mutual incomprehension, friends and aides say.

Similarly, tumbling passes can result in painful falls and collisions if not executed as intended.

"You could call Linda," I suggested, knowing that she had had a recent painful falling out with a good friend of hers.