Sentence examples for tilts over from inspiring English sources

The plant tilts over due to the loss of roots and then the stem straighten up, leaving a curved plant stem.

Her OK stick figure, for instance, tilts over in a headstand, drops a pancake on its head, gets a kite stuck in a tree.

Deeper in the city's historic center, the rear of the National Palace now tilts over the sidewalk like a sea captain leaning into a strong headwind.

Souths have won five straight with no team getting within 16 points of the premiership favourites, Keary giving Michael Maguire's team a penetrating attacking wrinkle that the club has been sorely lacking in title tilts over the last two years.

A judge looks not only at what moves a surfer is doing and how well those moves are executed, but at how close they are done to the wave's lip — where the wall of water tilts over and lurches forward.

Standing in the huddle, he asks himself, "What are we doing on this rainy field that tilts over in the earth, the earth is crooked, where am I? Who am I? What's all that?" * * * Earlier this year, I ventured into the Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, in the New York Public Library, which houses the bulk of Kerouac's archive.

A worse disaster was averted because the accident occurred 100 yards from the company's power house, where an alert engineer saw the car tilt over and immediately cut off the electricity.

The blintz fold, or the folding of a square's corners into the center, gives the white paper the ability to actually wobble around, flip over, and tilt over on its own.

Step forward, tilt over, and plant your hands about 12 inches (30.5 cm) from the wall.

The acetabular axis determined using our method has a completely reversed orientation under dysplastic conditions (retroversion, posterior tilt, inclination over 90 degrees), which may influence decisions regarding surgical redirection of the acetabulum.

The box must not tilt over and must close hermetically," Mr. Kugel said.