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Example Sentences
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This is not a tale where the heroine’s acceptable aesthetics are revealed by her removing her glasses or allowing her tousled waves to tumble out of a tightly pinned hairdo.
From Salon ● May 20, 2026
"People say that there's an Olympic curse," American figure skater Ilia Malinin said after a shocking performance which saw one of the hottest favourites of the Milan-Cortina Games tumble out of the medals.
From Barron's ● Feb. 14, 2026
Until this escapade, though, we didn’t quite realize the extent to which no one is in charge: Nobody knows how decisions are made or even whether they are made or simply tumble out randomly.
From Slate ● Jul. 8, 2025
Books, Siddhartha Mukherjee says, just tumble out of him, like fluffy towels and clean socks cascade out of a dryer at the end of the cycle.
From New York Times ● Sep. 9, 2022
It felt like there weren’t enough letters in the alphabet for everything she had to say, for all the words that wanted to tumble out of her.
From "Far from the Tree" by Robin Benway
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