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tip over

VERB
  1. turn from an upright or normal position
    The canoe tumped over
    The big vase overturned
  2. cause to overturn from an upright or normal position
    the clumsy customer turned over the vase
    The cat knocked over the flower vase
    he tumped over his beer

How To Use tip over In A Sentence

  • Certainly both the music and these performances have real rhythmic life and a good deal of energy, even if some passages are over-scored and tip over into brassy bombast.
  • Although the ship started to tip over , she soon righted herself.
  • But equivocalness hangs in the air - we're waiting for it to tip over.
  • Willie Wilson then cracked in a shot, which Reid did brilliantly to tip over the bar to deny the Fifers.
  • Rep. Hank Johnson, a Georgia Democrat, his bizarre question about the island of Guam possibly tipping over-he used the word "capsize" - if additional troops were stationed there became a It's no April Fools 'Day joke: the 55-year-old congressman and member of the House Democratic leadership told a naval officer who was testifying on March 25 that: "My fear is that the whole island will become so overly populated that it will tip over and capsize. Newsnet 14
  • But when does joyous, mantric reiteration tip over into something more sinister, or worse, monotonous?
  • White laminated chifforobes (combination dresser/wardrobe) and four-drawer dressers may tip over if heavy objects are placed on top or children climb onto units.
  • Although the ship started to tip over (Sentence dictionary), she soon righted herself.
  • Although the ship started to tip over , she soon righted herself.
  • Carrying heavy bags of rubbish up steel steps to tip over the waist height edge of the skip cannot be safe.
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