Sentence examples for tumble like from inspiring English sources

Three men bounce about and tumble like gymnasts.

They spin in traditional, wide-skirted robes and keel over, to tumble like corpses in a rip tide.

We aren't going to raise interest rates to peg the dollar to gold, or allow banks to tumble like dominoes.

Though the narrator and the author may not be identical, the wonderful details have the liberated onrush of memory: they tumble like things randomly released, not lengthily chosen.

In the end the sticks tumble like a game of Mouse Trap, but Ms. Kaye's funny and tender adventure, even after more than 20 years and far removed from its original setting, an abandoned greenhouse, does not.

"When the proportion of students in a neighbourhood reaches about 40%, the other properties tumble like a row of dominoes," says David Morton, a local Liberal Democrat councillor.All over Britain, young people are moving into neighbourhoods and everyone else is moving out.

Inside the L.I.R.R. train, those who had gotten out of their seats early to gather their belongings and head for the doors were sent tumbling "like dolls," one passenger said.

Prime securities tumbled like the issues of bogus gold mines.

The evening's other commitments tumbled like skittles.

But after a season in which favorites tumbled like the dollar, anything seems possible.

Guston let loose the demons and out they tumbled, like clowns from a Volkswagen.