Sentence examples for tumble backward from inspiring English sources

"tumble backward" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to an action taken by a person or object, often indicating sudden movement or loss of balance. For example, "The football player tumbled backward after slipping on the wet grass."

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My heart beat uncontrollably as I perched on the side of the boat and waited my turn to tumble backward, heels over head, into the ocean.

The wind in your hair, a stench in your nose, the invigorating fear that your legs will give out, causing you to tumble backward down the steep slope of the Williamsburg Bridge.

But not Ihsanullah, 10, another boy who stood on a high arc of road so steep the trucks struggled to a standstill and looked as though they were about to tumble backward.

The Islamists lost the battle of ideas in Timbuktu, but what they left behind is a community in shambles, one that is at best in the opening stages of a long, wretched recovery and that at worst could tumble backward toward the very extremism the French sought to purge.

The film is also a tumble backward for "Divergent" and "The Fault in Our Stars" actress Shailene Woodley.

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A kick sent her tumbling backward.

The three of us tumbled backward out the doorway.

Defending a driving LeBron James on Saturday in Miami, Wallace went tumbling backward.

Running smack into a corner, he tumbles backward, until his limbs snag on a pillar.

The Bradley's machine gun barked, and the man tumbled backward.

One flick of its tail sent Lloyd tumbling backward -- gun, mask and breath gone.

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