Examples of tumble

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The words come tumbling forth, and they do his bidding.
The measurements would be taken by observing a bacterium in the tumbling phase the then wait until it entered the translation phase.
Such arguments were not new, the product of a reassessment of foreign policy as the ancien régime tumbled.
Although both the 'comic and grotesque genres broadly were given over to caricature', the latter distinguished itself by extreme postures and tumbling.
Any attempt to finance war by the powers would cause a fall in securities, a tumbling market, sky-high inflation.
There is at any rate nothing figurative about the paralysis which grips her when her husband tumbles into the water.
The relaxation times of small molecules tumbling rapidly in solution are typically long, while those for large proteins and protein-bound ligands are substantially shorter.
The words come tumbling out, with the odd pause as he searches for a more exact or colourful phrase.
Target in space may move in various modes, such as free-floating, tumbling, and so on.
Alongside the thrill of anticipation of the tumbling tower is the understanding of cause and effect.
To understand why, the image of a tumbling wall might make a fitting emblem.
Many lost handaxes would be tumbled by a flood and then later discovered in the river bed, with some edges smoothed enough to hold comfortably.
When he had almost completed his work in the ditch, the walls tumbled in and within minutes he was covered in heavy sand.
Then a sooty figure tumbles out of the fireplace into 'a handsome bed-chamber'.
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