somersault
Example Sentences
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But what they hadn’t known and discovered with the help of my analysis was that the forces associated with wake turbulence can be so great that they can somersault a plane out of the sky.
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I did a complete somersault and went whiskers over teacup, ending up on my back, facing the wrong way.
From Literature
They jumped from trailer windows, somersaulting across the procession's rooftops.
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“Ha!” he shouted, and his dark hair fell in his eyes as he dodged a laser blast by doing a somersault through the air.
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If only I had something to calm my somersaulting nerves.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
