tumbled

Example Sentences

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Tumbled around were the ruins of a city approximately eight miles in diameter.

From Time Magazine Archive

Tumbled heaps of broken tiles and stones stood more than knee high in the street that Dustfinger chose.

From "Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke

Tumbled shelves of rock often overhung the trail, fringed with hanging icicles that looked like long white teeth from a distance.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

With curses, shrieks, and cries, Horses and wagons and men Tumbled back through the shuddering glen, And above us the fading skies.

From Dreams and Days: Poems by Lathrop, George Parsons

Tumbled and tossed, whilst the sins and sufferings of men long dead passed and repassed with their spectral admonitions.

From The Black Wolf's Breed A Story of France in the Old World and the New, happening in the Reign of Louis XIV by Relyea, C. M. (Charles Mark)