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How to use the word tumble in a Sentence?

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The share price of Jindal Saw Ltd is likely to reach Rs.83-81 today and that of ONGC is likely to touch Rs.152-150, but the market likely to tumble in the fag end.

Lakshheish M Patel

added by laksheishmpatel_1
1 year ago

Minnesota has been leading the country in educational outcome disparities amongst students of color and white students for almost two decades now. That’s the symbolism, for me, in walls coming down: seeing those outcomes tumble.

Erika Sanzi

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We can't let ourselves tumble into a situation where, by acting prematurely -- I hate to say it because it's been such a long event -- but by acting prematurely to completely close it off that we end up in that blackout that could last, you know, an indeterminate amount of time.

Bill Magness

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The Kentuky( sic) Derby decision was not a good one, it was a rough and tumble race on a wet and sloppy track, actually, a beautiful thing to watch. Only in these days of political correctness could such an overturn occur. The best horse did NOT win the Kentucky Derby - not even close !

Donald Trump

Found on CNN
5 years ago

What is built on sand sooner or later would tumble down.

Dr. Jose P. Rizal

added by MuerteEnCuatroActos
5 years ago

This is very much a preliminary study, we don't have exact evidence from where this is coming from -- it could be that most of these materials may be coming from house dust and the use of plastic containers and packaging or, for example, nylon fibers from our tumble dryer -- and this could potentially outweigh the environmental routes of exposure.

Alistair Boxall

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I currently have a client who just yesterday reported such a behavior in her dog, Isis. Her toddler has a tendency to climb and tumble. As a response, the dog now stands behind her to brace her fall. The owner gave no such instruction. What emotion drives that innovation, if not feelings of empathy ? Empathy is found at the heart of social attachment.

Aaron McDonald

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I think that what we wanted was to give the girls the chance to get a step up on us, that they would be able to have insights and learnings and connections that we didn't have at their age that would enable them to navigate a world that is pretty rough and tumble and tricky but full of positives and possibles, we don't want them to have to say' I wish I would have known,'.

Donna Orender

Found on CNN
5 years ago

It seems a little more antagonistic, so that part has changed a little bit, but it's not like this was' Leave it to Beaver,'' Mayberry R.F.D.,'' The Donna Reed Show,' it was never a Pollyanna, Mary Poppins place. It was always rough and tumble politics.

Ileana Ros-Lehtinen

Found on CNN
5 years ago

That caused global oversupply and refining margins to tumble as demand couldn't (keep) supporting the increasing supply.

Kim Woo-kyung

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

In the rough and tumble of elections, you get stuff said, questions asked, i think it is right that candidates for some of the most important offices in Britain do get scrutinised about their past associations.

Defence Secretary Michael Fallon

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

In the rough and tumble of elections, you get stuff said, questions asked.

Defence Secretary Michael Fallon

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

He was a great manager, but it was a rough and tumble environment and he liked to throw a piece of meat in a cage and see who got it.

Tom Bernard

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Investors are rushing out of stocks today as they anticipate a well-deserved correction following the overnight tumble in global commodity prices.

Cao Xuefeng

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We had some nice success, and our third partner encouraged us to expand the brand locally, so we opened two other locations, our partner was the business guy, and we were essentially investors. We put a lot of faith in him. But there was a lack of attention, and those two locations took a bit of a tumble. Then our partner just disappeared.

Jason Griggs

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

The market is still fragile because the clean-up of gray-market margin financing is still going on, and last week's market tumble triggered some margin calls and some investors are under pressure to sell.

Samuel Chien

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

She's really claiming that she can be in the rough and tumble at the highest level, so she can’t break down too easily.

Mark Schickman

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

She's really claiming that she can be in the rough and tumble at the highest level, so she can't break down too easily.

Mark Schickman

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

After yesterday's tumble, we are still seeing energy and banks backing down but the scope of the back down won't be that great.

Liu Jingde

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

By all means use sometimes to be alone. Salute thyself: see what thy soul doth wear. Dare to look in thy chest; for 'Tis thine own: And tumble up and down what thou findst there. Who cannot rest till he good fellows find, he breaks up house, turns out of doors his mind.

George Herbert

added by anonymous
9 years ago

While the State becomes inflated and hypertrophied in order to obtain a firm enough grip upon individuals, but without succeeding, the latter, without mutual relationships, tumble over one another like so many liquid molecules, encountering no central energy to retain, fix and organize them.

Émile Durkheim

added by anonymous
10 years ago

To divide one's life by years is of course to tumble into a trap set by our own arithmetic. The calendar consents to carry on its dull wall-existence by the arbitrary timetables we have drawn up in consultation with those permanent commuters, Earth and Sun. But we, unlike trees, need grow no annual rings.

Clifton Fadiman

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat soiled or torn? What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice. Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat soiled or torn What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice. Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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