Sentence examples for tumbled before from inspiring English sources

All kinds of records had tumbled before the most decisive tumble of all; Isner hitting the deck in euphoric exhaustion after delivering the final coup de grâce.

Container rates have tumbled: before last summer it cost $1,400 to move a container from China to Europe; today the rate is barely $400.

In 1996, he asked whether "irrational exuberance" had consumed stock-market investors, and equity prices around the world briefly tumbled before resuming their ascent.

But he stressed afterwards that he had been directed by the umpires David Millns and Steve Garratt to footage of the wickets that had previously tumbled, before having a meeting with the Nottinghamshire chief executive Lisa Pursehouse.

No sooner had they tumbled from my mouth than my life tumbled before my eyes and, when it comes to my broadcasting nadirs, that one is down in the crowded depths.

The records continue to tumble before Rafael Nadal like opponents.

A minute later Costa raced goalwards only to tumble before he could shape to shoot.

A kaleidoscope of impressions and perceptions tumble before the mind's eye, constantly shifting from the general to the particular, the political to the personal.

Richards was interested in athletics from boyhood, participating in diving and tumbling before taking up the pole vault in junior high school.

This time the falling men and women tumble before the reader with no safety harness, no net of simile or irony, nothing to break their fall.

On a cheerless afternoon, only the bookmakers' digital displays seemed to obtain any kind of festive glow – especially when the odds against Hit The Headlines were tumbling before the novice hurdle.