Sentence examples for tumble downstairs from inspiring English sources

We have to tumble downstairs before we've had a chance to comb our hair or pee.

Ernesto, Jr., for example, turns up in later life calling himself Ray X: a mirror of the X-rays of Lena's bones when she takes a tumble downstairs.

Jamie Glover's Garry, who plays a randy, breathless estate agent, is sublimely funny and athletic (he takes a death-defying tumble downstairs).

(Even "Saturday," which takes place in a single day, has enough incident to rival "24": a plummeting plane, a car crash, a break-in, a tumble downstairs, lifesaving surgery).

Mornings, Gabe tumbled downstairs, half-asleep and his hair bent at odd angles, to warm a tortilla à la Alice for breakfast.

Fotheringham gives us a whirling dervish: Alice as a young girl tumbling downstairs, galloping through parks, bike-riding and let loose in her father's library after refusing to attend private school.

One reason that they need no introduction, as Howard realizes, is their habit of dispensing with introductions to their songs; "She Loves You" gets a short clobber of drums, as if Ringo were tumbling downstairs in clogs, before the rest of the gang proclaims the opening chorus.

The anamnestic research showed that the patient tumbled downstairs; while clinging to both lateral banisters, she slipped down banging her face and chest to the ground.

"NOOOOOOO!" I cried out, practically tumbling downstairs in the hope that I could somehow stop the catastrophe.

And he was prepared to tumble to greatness if necessary: he threw himself downstairs in a somersault that shook the Old Vic's stage to impress as Coriolanus.

European banks could tumble.