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lose an upright position suddenly
The vase fell over and the water spilled onto the table
Her hair fell across her forehead
How To Use fall down In A Sentence
- Sometimes when you think the sky is about to fall down, you might be standing tilted!
- Don't stop, because others will over you; don't look back, so as not to fall down.
- To fall down on the sofa and tear off her clothes and beg him to make wild, abandoned love to her.
- They fall down and get up again; they educate themselves and kick over the traces.
- Jules Galdea explained to us that these revolving fan-like wheels on top of the cars destroyed atmospheric pressure, or what is generally understood by the term gravitation, and with this force thus destroyed or rendered nugatory the car is as safe from falling to one side or the other from the single rail track as if it were in a vacuum; the fly wheels in their rapid revolutions destroying effectually the so-called power of gravitation, or the force of atmospheric pressure or whatever potent influence it may be that causes all unsupported things to fall downward to the earth's surface or to the nearest point of resistance. The Smoky God, or: A Voyage to the Inner World
- Don't stop, because others will over you; don't look back, so as not to fall down.
- When we were doing one of our training days we couldn't get through because there's deadfall down across the river and it's a narrow channel.
- I'm quite good at speaking Chinese, but I fall down on the written work.
- Where Brubeck does fall down is in his overly ornate arrangements, all painstakingly constructed to seemingly draw as many parallels with classical music as possible.
- Above the round glass or iron coverings of coal-cellars the foot-passengers slipped, "ricked" their backs, and swore as they stumbled, if they did not actually fall down, in the filth. The Mark Of Cain