Sentence examples for toppled as from inspiring English sources

Stonehenge has been slowly falling down for millennia; a stone toppled as recently as 1900.

Gas station awnings were toppled, as were traffic signals, billboards and marquees.

Our closest friends in the region — including Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Jordan, Qatar and Israel — would like to see Mr. Assad toppled as soon as possible.

He has not been seen since he was toppled as party secretary of Chongqing in March.

By contrast, Russia does not like the idea of autocrats being toppled, as its regime is shaky too.

Mr Klaus wants Mr Topolanek to be toppled as ODS leader during a party congress starting on December 5th.

Iniesta went to his knees and pumped his fists and toppled over, as tired as he was ecstatic.

He is charged with organising a mass prison break during the 2011 uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak, as well as murdering police officers during the breakout.

Just as at the beginning, he was threatening at every step to topple as we took him on the final, halting tours of his favored garden retreats.

Similarly, in A Poet's Guide to Britain, Sheers captures the various highs and lies of the city through a textual domino topple, as one poem connects with the next.

At first, as we have seen, low-cost entrants and focused-segment marketers threaten existing broad-line players, and many giants topple as they fail to react quickly enough.