How To Use Fall In A Sentence

She was all cold and bedraggled after falling into the river.
Gone was the prim nodus; instead her long hair was parted in the center and allowed to fall loose under a veil, in a deliberate echo of the statuary poses of classical goddesses. Caesars’ Wives
Moreover, it is expressly added that if the day before the Passover falls on a Sabbath, one may in this manner purchase a Paschal lamb, and, presumably, all else that is needful for the feast.
It also contains a series of waterfalls and cascades to further enhance the beauty of a hole that is certain to generate a lot of comment throughout the week.
‘Of course, if you fail, and you have been put on that pedestal, it is a lot harder because you have further to fall,’ he said.

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She strode over to a couple of fallen logs and kicked one of them.
A couple of weeks after the monarch's announcement, heavy rain began to fall, thus ending the drought.
The results were disastrous, plunging the country into deep depression, with high unemployment, sharply falling living standards and serious political unrest.
Plans include occasional stops at Central Terminal, which saw its last passenger train in 1979, and special excursions through the region to destinations such as Niagara Falls, Medina, Jamestown and even Cleveland. The Buffalo News: Home
For winemakers in the Rhone, 2002 was a disastrous year, with violent storms and huge rainfall during the harvest.
The fall in popularity of the death's head and the subsequent prevalence of the cherub was a reflection of the Great Awakening and the belief in the immortality of the soul: "Cherubs reflect a stress on resurrection, while death's heads emphasize the mortality of man. Headstones for Dummies, the New York Edition
Some experienced foreign jumpers displayed hand-in-hand group jumping, wingsuit jumping and somersaults during free fall; all the risky stunts thrilled the audience.
If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
Nixon came up with the phrase 'growth recession': even when things are not falling, it's not going to feel good. So what do we do now, chancellor?
I first learned about cassowaries when I was at the School for Field Studies SFS Center for Rainforest Studies in Fall of 1990 as a college student, and was fascinated that they're the only bird that can "scarify" certain rainforest seeds. Archive 2008-07-01
Air in free fall does not convect, which means that everything that heats up has to be cooled by fans; the space shuttle is LOUD inside. 8/4/08: Launch Pad, day 5
The sun was bright in a sky already shading into a cooler, breezier blue, and the trees surrounding the compound glowed with the first, bright brush strokes of fall.
Falling interest rates may help to bolster up the economy.
The unpleasant truth is that hiding behind private ownership only hides the fall in value from people who choose not to look.
Olivia notes the direction of his gaze, and realizes her robe has fallen open again.
To acidify soil, sprinkle two tablespoons of aluminum phosphate or sulfur around the shrubs in early fall.
Sharansky is not infallible, but he is probably the most sagacious voice in Israeli politics today.
The resident population of mental hospitals has fallen by 20%.
It is patent that dusk found them weary and worn, plodding and wading silently "homewards," shovel on shoulder, across four or five kilos of desolate mud; falling and tripping over stagnant bodies, masses of tangled wire, bricks and jagged wood-work everywhere impeding progress. Norman Ten Hundred A Record of the 1st (Service) Bn. Royal Guernsey Light Infantry
I've got a face like a punctured beachball, like an arse that's fallen downstairs, like a rucksack full of dented bells. Charlie Brooker's Screen burn: What Not To Wear
As the scores indicate - typically gelid to frozen - the shots seem to fall in the unflattering to outright frightening range.
NIAGARA FALLS -- A Niagara Falls English teacher has agreed to resign and surrender his teaching certification as part of a plea bargain to charges that he had an improper relationship with a 16-year-old female student. The Buffalo News: Home
Organizing your finances and time helps you become more productive and responsive and ensures you avoid unnecessary pitfalls, such as incurring wasteful late fees. AllBusiness.com - Home Page RSS
The Australian was interested in Iroquois Falls because the Paper Company owns the whole town; they have made the streets and the municipality, and the stores, and they were good enough to rent premises to Dr. Monteith for his liquor store, to make some revenue. Northern Ontario
In my scenario, the Senator tells the drowning person that it was the flailing non-swimmer's fault for falling in and not learning how to swim, not the Senator's doing, just before the erratic splasher goes under the surface for the last time. Norman Cressy: Musings II
Meteorologists have known since 1946 that dry ice sprinkled on clouds can cause rain to fall.
India's reply was a total disaster, with wickets falling too rapidly due to run-outs.
If a jewel falls into the mire, it remains as precious as before; and though dust should ascend to heaven, its former worthlessness will not be altered.
Are the forces of fallacy still out there, waiting to reassume their hold? Times, Sunday Times
Manning turned slowly, a fallacious smile on his lips, his eyes hard. CORMORANT
The capon burns, and the pig falls from the spit, and the meal will BE all cold if you do not come home.
The car slows to a stop in front of the house and the engine falls silent.
Democratic individuals, who in any case are likely to have similar beliefs and opinions because they are similarly situated, easily fall under the hegemonic sway of public opinion.
‘This is evident in a number of markets where rents are falling, but yields are not only holding steady, but in most instances hardening,’ he said.
Over 300,000 visitors a year enjoy the waterfalls, flower gardens, exotic birds, animal life and the children's playground.
However, it is clear that asbestos flock falls within that definition.
Oh I know, post-lapsarian; I am definitely conscious of my fall from an edenic state of grace! Agatha Christie and Guilt « Tales from the Reading Room
I turned to air kiss Mr. Bailey and instead found myself falling as if in slow motion into the throne r oom where the Queen was holding court. A Royal Engagement
The horse broke a leg in the fall and had to be put down.
Nemours showed him at once what use to make of the army under his orders, and having enfiladed his National Guard battalions, and placed his artillery in echelons, he formed his cavalry into hollow squares on the right and left of his line, flinging out a cloud of howitzers to fall back upon the main column. Burlesques
Cultural practices have survived or fallen only in part because of their effect on the strength of the group, and those which have survived are usually burdened with unnecessary impedimenta.
Nutty sweetbreads, bitter greens, gently brash shallots, and velvety chanterelles suffuse farfalle in well-oiled repertory.
Fingerprint recognition, which falls under a technology called biometrics, has been used for years in the corporate environment.
Makar Sankrant is the first Hindu festival of the solar calendar year, falling on January 14.
The accent falls on the third syllable.
When prices fall, commodity producers can maintain profitability by cutting costs or increasing output.
With a minimal investment, investors can bet whether almost the entire market will rise or fall.
His head's still swimming so he holds on tight to her waist so he doesn't fall.
In fact, areas where the outdoor temperature routinely falls to about 15 degrees are not good candidates for heat pumps.
Aryan shrieks and runs out of my room, making such noise that her footfalls sound like an army trooping onto the battlefield.
The rate may fall below that, depending on the general trend of interest rates.
The child showed great presence of mind by grabbing the falling baby.
Fall is the time to plant the tulips, daffodils and hyacinths that bloom in the spring.
Falling masonry, backdrafts and explosions are all very real dangers facing a firefighter outside the training room.
The manciple accuses the cook of being drunk, and the cook falls off his horse after giving the Manciple a dirty look.
If the DJIA falls by the target amount, the collar is called the uptick rule. Essential Guide to Business Style and Usage
After the fall of Pitt in 1801 there was a decade of unstable government.
We had the tradition of preserving food and drink for long time consumption, by watching when the leaves began to fall and when there were changes happening to Nature.
As the wetlands falls away, pipelines are exposed to the vagaries of open water.
It caused differential melting and sublimation on the surface, according to the patterns it happened to fall in and the mixes of ices it clung to, until it was washed away or encysted. The Clique
A subsequent kerfuffle (rather drawn out) sounding not unlike a fist fight interspersed with successive shards of glass falling. BEHINDLINGS
The study region falls within the cismontane region of central and southern California.
The adolescent and teenage birth rate has fallen by nearly half since 1992.
Handrails or balustrades are essential if there is any danger of falling.
He had no difficulty in disposing of the fallacy, and he was in no danger of succumbing to it. Nineteen Eighty-Four
The locals told me that it's normal to see camels walking through the desert and their guts fall out because camel spiders eat their intestinal walls.
The antidote is intended to protect residents from radioactive fallout from any missile attack on the nuclear station.
I'm looking for a doings to hold up a curtain rail that's fallen down.
With abundant rainfall and a temperate climate, crops were plentiful; citrus and olive groves abounded.
Zhang had been chained to a cowshed in Hunan, southern China, in 2005 after falling out with village officials over a loan to build his house. Zhang Chuanqiu, Chain Skin Victim, Saved By British Media Charity
Their solution was to have Cumbria fire service just out of shot squirting hosepipes high in the air so it would fall the right way on Hopkins who was standing looking miserable up to his thighs in the lake.
The primavera's sap rises and falls, not with the seasons, but with the phases of moon.
Temperatures will fall to a minimum of 10 degrees.
Most married people fall out over money.
No other abnormalities were detected in the cervix, uterus, ovaries, or fallopian tubes.
Some of you may get a windfall: property or a vehicle from parents or close relatives.
Mating season commonly takes place during the fall and winter seasons, but can occur at any time throughout the year.
C.N), the largest U.S. bank and a major casualty of the crisis, could fall below $10 a share, less than a third of its 150-day moving average price of $32.82, as the credit crisis unravels further.
Consequently a number of Navajo Indians were drafted into the US army as radiomen, and would have soldiers assigned to them to protect them and prevent them falling into enemy hands.
He was a strong supporter of the doctrine of papal infallibility and he drew up a postulatum in which he favoured a definition by implication in preference to an explicit affirmation of the dogma. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
However, the mutilation of the monuments indicate that she had fallen from grace.
He would much rather be judged on whether share prices continue to rise or fall ahead of a bid or profit warning.
Slips, trips and falls are a very common cause of accidents with hundreds of thousands of incidents reported each year.
The notorious fact-checkers of The New Yorker are irritating not only because they often prove how fallible are our memories, but because they seem to mechanize what ought to be a natural, unmediated, fast-moving process. 2009 February 11 | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS
We spent a misty day walking through the forests around Forsmark, where the newly fallen snow held the paw prints of lynx and the big M-shaped hoof marks of moose.
The whole front of the theatre, a curtain of matting, is rolled up at intervals and, when the feat in progress is at its most thrilling climax, is let fall. In Seven Stages: A Flying Trip Around the World
Application of the word "privatization," however, is almost always a misuse of the English language, albeit one that has become so common that it falls automatically off the tongue and flows unchecked past the ear. Ken Allen: Say 'Corporatization,' Not 'Privatization'
Ramping up the subsidies is a relatively cheap way for the French to go as it usually falls to the UK, as a net contributor to the EU, to have to fork out to keep French politicians in office. The French Protection
From early spring to late fall, he will leave his apartment, limp across the street and coax whoever is willing to play patty-cake with him until the bus arrives.
The twin problems of ecological and individualist fallacies occur when inferences are drawn about one level of analysis using evidence from another.
Let's pile up the fallen leaves in the corner and sweep up the floor.
I do think one of the downfalls of diet drugs and appetite suppressants is that they still don't teach you how to eat.
Summer had faded into fall, but even as September wore on Paris still baked under a strange late heat wave that showed no sign of letting up.
Enemies struck by gunfire don't just fall over backwards; they jet blood like the lawn sprinkler in Hell, then collapse into a heap.
Ben watched her as she worked, wisps of her hair falling about her face and her tongue just visibly poking out of the corner of her mouth as she concentrated.
He speculated that a ball falling through a hole at the equator would follow a corkscrew trajectory.
He was staring down at the diary on the floor, which had fallen open when it had landed.
By launching the commercial scheme in the guise of an athletic club it falls within the rules of the Amateur Athletic Association.
You should take it as a compliment when I fall asleep in your company - it means I'm relaxed.
Sometimes when you think the sky is about to fall down, you might be standing tilted!
This may be because the credulousness that goes hand in hand with little experience allows one to fall in love merely with appearances, and winter is beautiful. The Fire We Tend Against Winter
Near the end of his reign, King Behanzin ordered his troops to burn the royal palaces rather than see them fall into French hands.
RE: #106 – No one seems to want to have a technical discussion regarding the current mechanisms reponsible for the European drought of Fall 2006 and the zonally dominated current semi wet but warm pattern. More Unthreaded « Climate Audit
Meat and poultry production fall under the control of the Agriculture Department.
Island on the L.S. is one of the worst quick or moveing sand bars Which I have Seen, notwithstanding all our precaustons to Clear the Sands and pass between them (which was the way we were compd. to pass, from the immence Current & falling banks on the S. S.) the Boat Original journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806
Not for a minute had she believed fate would be so amenable as to arrange for him to fall madly in love with her. WHOLE SECRET LOVE
Consider a combination of red, orange yellow and orange for a striking fall layout, or a combination of icy blues and purples for a frosty winter page.
To go from that fall, hitting her head, and then to do the headbanger is pretty amazing. The Sun
The inequity of allowing windfall profits to be appropriated by private landholders can thus be demonstrated more clearly than in George's day.
I wrote a long paper last fall which you can find here in which I make out Gore as an epigone of Heidegger. Enowning
And, finally, pratfalls are a universal language, and Moliere never betrayed his debt to the Italian tradition of commedia dell'arte.
He falls into a stupor, into utter oblivion of the world about him, becomes in turn excited and confused, his senses begin to functionate in a fallacious manner, and he thus succeeds in shutting out from consciousness, for the time being at least, the entire unbearable situation. Studies in Forensic Psychiatry
As the IPCC report made clear, many of the models disagree even on the sign of the change in rainfall over much of the globe, especially for winter projections. 2010 March 12 | Serendipity
The irony being, if Spurs do become legitimate contenders for the title and pip City to it, therefore Man City sponsor their own downfall. NEWS.com.au | Top Stories
Our literacy rate falls year by year, and even many who can read do not read, the so-called aliterates.
Brown pelicans dive into glistening sapphire waves to grab tiny silvery fish that jump from the water then fall back with a soft plop.
SNOW (voice-over): With his wife Silda by his side, New York Governor Eliot Spitzer, the man once known as Mr. Clean, addressed his fall from grace. CNN Transcript Mar 12, 2008
God's omniscience means he knows all our needs and God's omnipresence means we can pray to him wherever we are, but if we fall into bland repetition of these truths, they will grow tiresome.
Eugenics and ‘social Darwinism’ are perversions of evolution based upon logical fallacy and misapplication.
It is a popular belief that the worst horrors befall whoever invites the curse of a hijra.
At the Fallowfield lead mine, near Hexham in Northumberland, it is associated with witherite; and at Bromley Hill, near Alston in Cumberland, it occurs in veins with galena. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"
Stylelist. com The Rapunzel-locked lovelies on Nanette Lepore's Fall 2010 runway looked like they had stepped straight out of, enamoring seen-it-all fashion statement on the red carpet while honoring tradition at the same WN.com - Articles related to Chocoholics unite for Chocolate Week
It was incredibly bad-mannered of me, but I felt myself falling asleep. TIME OF THE WOLF
Your brother has a dangerous condition called tetralogy of Fallot. GUARDIAN OF THE VEIL
In truth, she could not have known she had fallen into this realm as the mere awareness of self and location whether spatial or otherwise would negate the very nature of the state itself.
In a market economy it is as easy to fall as to rise, but in periods of scarcity and famine, easier to survive within such a system than outside it.
The rise and fall of this company is a cautionary tale for anyone investing in the property market.
I will not be there with a £180 ticket to be biffed into kingdom come by some insane person on the end of a weighted rope - or falling off it - but good luck to those who come to brave the 2 chords of U2 at warp volume and other truffles of this cultural feast. Bono and The Edge defend Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark
An unexpected call for a no-confidence vote against Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung over his handling of a debt crisis at one of Vietnam's biggest state-owned firms shows that the political fallout from the country's worst-ever financial scandal might just be starting, analysts say. Vietnamese Premier Faces Fallout on Vinashin
It seemed completely unreal, the kisses we shared and how he said he was falling in love with me.
For it is through believing that the sun rises and sets, the moon passes and wanes, the rain falls and sunbeams pour down that allows the order and sequence of events to happen.
I stumbled over the fallen coon who had pivoted me, ducked a swat from a club, dived between a bull's legs, and was free. Some Adventures With the Police
Can the other teams raise their games enough to counterbalance that potential falloff?
The hair of coastal wolves also appears to be coarser and better at shedding water, perhaps to cope with the heavy rainfall on the west coast.
And she didn't think she would lose, not with the sunbeam falling on her face like the God's golden promise.
We overbalanced and tumbled towards the window, smashing it and falling through.
The last forty pages of the publication are dedicated to the numerous journalists who have fallen the victims of repression around the world.
She kept on struggling to loose herself, groping ineffectually at the deadfall that had entrapped her. SLEEP WHILE I SING
No fall from power within the Eastern bloc of nations is mentioned in any of the books.
You could make a windfall profit - or you might suffer an exchange-rate loss if you encash those assets when the valuation currency is weak against your base currency.
In the fall of 2003, the authors and several of their colleagues conducted a telephone survey of representatives from a range of institutions offering a major in agronomy or crop science.
Second-place winner Nada Bader, a 12-year-old seventh-grader from Crestwood Middle School, met her downfall with the word "conniption" - a fit of rage, hysteria or alarm. Times Leader News
In our travels in Argentina, I've had the chance to visit Eva Peron's grave, fall in love with a local winery, and take a river cruise.
That is, that it is to be operated in a manner which would not fall within any of the claims of the Patent.
The ball bounced off her head and Sam let it fall to the ground.
It also helped that the fall made him look as if he were breakdancing. Times, Sunday Times
He was his own worst enemy and his rash violation of Grant's departmental regulations caused his removal from command of his corps shortly before the fall of Vicksburg.
When you're that kind of player, it must be so fun to play against no-marks who fall for every stepover, trick, flick and shimmy.
Before marriage, a man will lie awake thinking about something you said; after marriage , he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it. Helen Rowland
Even the rape case against him began falling apart when his alleged victim failed to appear in court.
Prior to European settlement (pre-1850), a wide variety of disturbances characterized the region, ranging from frequent small-scale and localized events such as treefall gaps to rare, large-scale events such as stand-replacing fires and epizootic outbreaks. Eastern Cascades forests
With a simple formula like this does Ninja Assassin deliver the goods, or does it fall on its own sword. Flixnjoystix.com! » 2009 » December
The mishaps that befall Van Orton seem more random and jarring, though, than cohesively engineered to facilitate his spiritual development.
Their blossoms encompass nearly the entire color spectrum and blooming times range from early spring to fall, depending on the variety.
As the vines have yielded their fruit by midsummer and ripened their wood early so as to be ready for starting into growth again in December or January, the grapery is kept cool and ventilated in the fall and early winter, but this need not interfere with the mushroom crop. Mushrooms: how to grow them a practical treatise on mushroom culture for profit and pleasure
But wrangling over a £1m cash shortfall has delayed the plans by at least four to five months.
Changing mortality and fertility patterns are likely to have contributed to this fall.
Weare clear - eyed about the challenge of mobilizing collective action, and shortfalls of our international system.
A serious fall incapacitated the 68-year-old congressman.
But instead of wreaking his revenge on her, he falls in love with her.
She stamped her foot for a final emphasis, but she was aware of her words all having fallen effectless, like blows dealt some detestable thing in a dream. The Coast of Bohemia
The path's very steep, so be careful you don't fall.
With heavy rain now falling, the game became bogged down in a midfield stalemate.
When I went for my walk this afternoon there was still no sign of snow, though the drifts of fallen May blossom along the hedge bottoms kept my mind on the topic.
These two lads started on these trees, and had them falling like ninepins, it was taking the rest of us all our time to keep pace stripping them. Work Camp 934 L
Some loincloths were painted and decorated with tassels, which symbolized falling rain.
And in the current climate of falling property prices, valuers are being overcautious. Times, Sunday Times
The scaleup has been made largely possible by rising donations and falling price for drugs, which have plummeted from 10,000 dollars to 300 dollars per person per year in three years. ANC Daily News Briefing
They expected gasoline stockpiles to drop 1.7 million barrels and distillate inventories to fall 300,000 barrels. Oil Falls, Awaits Obama
Snow had been seen to fall also at Teneriffe, in a place lying above Esperanza de la Laguna, very near the town of that name, in the gardens of which the artocarpus flourishes. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1
No matter what happens to our nation, even when Egypt may fall on hard times, we can never be ignored.
And, relationships built upon common needs build bridges, even as bridges unmaintained may fall at any time. Rev. Earl E. Johnson: No Poverty Of Spirit
IDAHO FALLS, Idaho -- More orange cones are going up in Downtown Idaho Falls. LocalNews8.com - Local News 8 - Headlines
The Marines need a divisional push to seize Fallujah and they don't have the men.
While the market may have still further to fall, the bear case now has to contend with yields on leading company shares that are standing not just in excess of base rate, but also above the yield on long-dated government bonds.
Then voices would cry in the falling sigh of wind around its gables.
The conflict was very fierce, and took place when the captain and I were at the xebeque, and before we could separate them four of them had fallen; two were killed, and the other two badly wounded. The Privateersman
For this fragile eaglet, ready to fall, unable to fly Professor Emman Osakwe « Illiteracy Articles « Articles « Literacy News
They were round, the size of a tangerine, and had apparently fallen from a large tree with a silvery bole.
There are many myths and fallacies about swing. Times, Sunday Times
As he presented his fall 2011 collection recently, Mr. Gordon said, We line everything in silk charmeuse! Materials Girls: Designers Trim Hemlines, Costs
Many fishes have trouble surviving as lakes’ temperatures rise and dissolved-oxygen levels fall, but the arapaima thrives because it breathes atmospheric oxygen through its mouth.
I don’t know whether this is just a stumble, or the beginning of a real fall, for the bloody-handed, doughfaced Democratic leadership. House of Representatives rejects war funding bill
A windfall profits tax is exactly how it sounds; it is a higher tax rate on profits that ensue from a sudden windfall gain to a particular company. Ah, gerrymandering. | RedState
A series of corruption scandals led to the fall of the government.
The problem with an infinite regress is that it is a fallacious attempt to make an unsound argument support itself. A Fine-Tuned Multiverse
And, by the same argument, if the circumsolar planets were supposed to be let fall at equal distances from the sun, they would, in their descent towards the sun, describe equal spaces in equal times. A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume II: The Beginnings of Modern Science
Nets are strung on the exterior frame to catch falling objects, and every other floor is planked to stop falls.
As she entered, I was standing in front of the oversized mirror wedged in between a dozen or so teenaged girls all scrambling to restore their fallen bouffants.
Fast-flowing rivers create spectacular waterfalls, gorges and a myriad of caves.
The character who seems most conscious that the ides of March falls within Lent is Brutus, especially in his account of the manner in which the assassination should be conducted.
They said another factor contributing to the patient pile-up is a staff shortfall.
Don't worry about Nina, she always falls on her feet.
When does the rent fall due?
It's a falling off sort of place where the ‘real’ slides into a chthonic state of being.

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