Example Sentences

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Toppled trucks snarled traffic on a main road linking London to Scotland.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 17, 2023

Toppled trees smashed into houses in Monrovia, Ontario and Upland, crushed cars in Claremont and blocked a portion of Pacific Coast Highway west of Heathercliff Road in Malibu.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 22, 2022

Doran is the author of “Breaking Rockefeller: The Incredible Story of the Ambitious Rivals who Toppled an Oil Empire,” a book recounting how two men managed to take down John D. Rockefeller’s monopoly.

From Washington Post • Feb. 10, 2021

Toppled from the throne is the cattleya: the frilled grandmotherly orchid that forms the stuff of corsages.

From New York Times • Mar. 21, 2019

Toppled trees crisscrossed the earth like spilled toothpicks.

From "Earthquake Terror" by Peg Kehret