How To Use Topple In A Sentence

The container had toppled over when the lorry carrying it got stuck in mud.
Field soldiers during the cold war, some hold dark secrets that could topple governments.
The oil drum where the male monkey had been sitting began to wobble from side to side and finally toppled right over.
The car had toppled over the cliff.
Twelve political parties and three coalitions are fielding candidates in the election, organised just six months after a bloodless coup toppled the president.

Marriage to her was the armature of my ego; remove the armature and I might topple like clay.
Outside armies have toppled Afghanistan's government and installed a new one, but it controls only its broken-down capital and very little of the vast country beyond.
‘They saw us,’ he panted as he quickly toppled a suit of armor and wedged it up against the bottom of the door.
Japanese tire maker Bridgestone Corp., which toppled Michelin from its podium as the world's No. 1 tire maker by sales in 2005, will be a second-source supplier for tires on new versions of Citroën's C2 and C3 compact sedans when they are introduced in the latter part of 2009. Citroën ending agreement to use only Michelin tires
Alec arrived in time to catch his father from falling as he slowly toppled to the ground.
This time the bullet ricochets off the stone fireplace behind Deuterium Boy and embeds itself in the piano, causing the figurine to topple off and shatter on the ground.
—In autumn, with a great creaking and a snapping of twigs, they break away from trunks grown thick with bark and phloem, which become husks with jagged tips, or later often topple from sheer grief. 2009 June
The general is accused of conniving in a plot to topple the government.
A palace coup led by General Rodriguez has toppled the dictator.
The Tigers need to topple their archnemesis just to qualify for a bowl. Weekend Preview: Stakes are high as Big 12 race concludes
Back in 1971, the mercurial Alex Murphy pulled off a minor miracle when unfancied Leigh toppled red-hot favourites Leeds to win the Challenge Cup final at Wembley.
The strike action, which was intended to topple the government, shut down most transport across the country.
Instead, they all toppled over the side of the counter, smashing into billions of pieces onto the floor.
As a member of the Iraqi National Congress, he worked for years to topple Saddam Hussein before being granted political asylum in the United States in 1997.
Riyadh's importance was vastly enhanced in 1979, when Ayatollah Khomeini toppled the Shah of Iran, theretofore Washington's chief ally in the Persian Gulf.
It had toppled itself so far over to one side that it had pulled its roots out of the soil.
A violent and sudden earthquake is said to have toppled a nearby hill, causing the torturers to flee in terror.
And a leader can be toppled any moment by a simple ballot of the party's MPs. Times, Sunday Times
Don't let toddlers lean into the basket from the seat - they're top-heavy and could topple.
It is broken and caused my wheelchair to topple over backwards.
The general is accused of conniving in a plot to topple the government.
Many of the owners are given time frames of how long it will be before their homes topple over the cliff.
Entire governments, never mind single ministers, have been toppled by that lethal combination.
Now, it seems increasingly likely that you will soon topple sideways off the sofa arm and into the bin.
Clifford went down hard, the sjambok toppled out of his hand and sprang off one end into the corner of the room. INSTRUMENTS OF DARKNESS
Belgium could be the next domino to topple. Times, Sunday Times
He was still in the interrogation room, but the chairs and the tables had toppled over.
We have struggled courageously to topple the dictator and establish democracy.
The action seemed a clumsy attempt to topple the Janata Dal government.
This revolutionary approach was announced by a woman painter, Anita Malfatti, “the protomartyr of modernism,” whose forward-looking paintings in her second exhibition, in 1917, were derided by Monteiro Lobato He claimed that she simply contributed her own “-ism” in her paintings where a horse and rider fall over: “I call this genre topple-ism”. [Jose] Oswald de [Souza] Andrade
But people began celebrating Nowruz more openly again after the militant group was toppled by the 2001 U.S.-led invasion.
The best part of the ribbing -- true to its roots in divaliciousness -- was the curtain call, wherein the knobby-kneed bull-erina, Ida Nevasayneva (Paul Ghiselin), blew effusive kisses, toppled over in his curtsies and fumbled his way back through the curtain, all with unshakable aplomb. Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo: Divas infuse humor, character in dances
With our superior firepower, it is not hard to topple regimes; it is the politics we keep getting wrong. Times, Sunday Times
To topple their rivals, Zhao dreams of launching Shen into mid-air with the spin to whirl an additional 360 degrees and still touch down in stride.
Alongside diehard Thaksinite protesters, stand middle-class Thais who do not care for Mr Thaksin but are disgusted by the political prestidigitation that toppled two elected governments.
So I took the said flask and went my ways hastily to my own chamber, and there I looked at the said flask and took out the stopple; and there was a liquor therein, white like to water, but of a spicy smell, sweet, fresh, and enheartening. The Water of the Wondrous Isles
Hundreds of the colourful pets were lined up in their cages ready for judging - when one suddenly toppled off its perch. The Sun
It is a widespread phenomenon that takes place at different scales: the large mass of soil brought up among the exposed roots of a wind-toppled oak tree and the few-millimeter thick sediment layer disturbed along the trail of a tiny aquatic snail are both examples of bioturbation. Archive 2007-01-01
The pile of books toppled over.
They pretend to be an absent couple in order to grab a reservation at a trendy restaurant, and two hit men assume they are that couple and topple them into a screwball comedy.
The boy sat beside me who named Asher always could pull out the critical block making the tower so unsteady for me, so I was the one who would topple the stack.
He was so excited that he toppled backwards bottom first into the bin. Times, Sunday Times
Works like Philip Kuhn's "Rebellion and Its Enemies in Late Imperial China" (1970) place the story in the context of China's long history of struggles between dynasties and those seeking to topple them, while Jen Yu-wen's "The Taiping Revolutionary Movement" (1973) goes further, insisting that Hong's movement had more in common with the revolutions that followed it than rebellions of earlier times. The Battle for China's Soul
On TV replays he appeared to extend his leg, bend his knee forward and — whammo — Mr. Carroll went tumbling to the ground, toppled by a coach. Not Your Normal Mascot
THIS was the weekend when East finally toppled West. The Sun
The chain is attached to a plug, called a stopple or a tank ball. Flushed
Walking through the tiny hallway, the top box toppled over, the entire contents spilling out.
He was accused of a treasonous conspiracy to topple the government.
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Without firm, deep foundations, faith is likely to topple over whenever it is challenged by the difficulties that life buffets us with.
I have been toppled by my own monstrous solipsism, hoodwinked by the belief that everything revolves around me. LOVE YOU MADLY
Seiji struggled to reclaim his arm, but in doing so, caused all packages to topple over and fall to the ground.
He rubbed a mixture of charcoal, calamint, water mint, and other dried herbs into his pelt to try to blot out the stench of the village, then toppled onto a pallet in one of the guest rooms to fall asleep within seconds.
Similarly, the drive to topple God from his throne (or decentre him as a universal referent for all knowledge) is closely bound up with the emergence of freedom as a key political value in Liberalism.
The Shah of Iran has toppled from the Peacock Throne -- which was supposed to last an eternity, give or take a few days. Blame the Media
Yet none of these protests gathered enough support to topple the government.
I picked up a bottle half buried in the wet sand, covered with barnacles, but stoppled tight, and half full of red ale, which still smacked of juniper, -- all that remained I fancied from the wreck of a rowdy world, -- that great salt sea on the one hand, and this little sea of ale on the other, preserving their separate characters. Cape Cod
In the riot, the statues were toppled from their pedestals.
Duffey came third last year in a valiant attempt to topple De Beer, who recorded a hat-trick of victories.
Thousands of people were killed in the bloody revolution that toppled the government.
Who wants to hedge bets on Mr. Dion being toppled from the leadership? Liberal Faithful Losing Faith In Dion, The Fallout Begins « Unambiguously Ambidextrous
She is thought to have lost her balance and toppled over backwards out of the opening, still clutching on to the toy. The Sun
The plot to topple the Labour leader unfolded on another day of chaos after the Brexit vote. Times, Sunday Times
He just released his hold and toppled slowly backwards.
His autobiography is set to become a massive hit - but it seems not even the England captain can topple Harry Potter from top spot.
He just released his hold and toppled slowly backwards.
Gadhafi had a large majority, Tutu said, referring to toppled Arab leaders in Egypt and Libya. NPR Topics: News
Winds will be strong enough to topple trees. The Sun
I've seen only a few pictures of the town but from what I've heard and read, it's a nightmare of destruction, trees splitting houses and crushing cars, roofs blown off of homes and businesses, the steeple toppled from the First Baptist Church. Pecan Trees and Steeples
When the dictator was toppled, the senate was reinstituted, and was designed to have national scope, creating a platform, the framers imagined, for the country's best and brightest.
I did but refresh myself after the fatigue of the action, with the unbeliever, with one humming cup of sack, and was proceeding to lead forth my captive, when, crash after crash, as with wild thunder-dint and levin-fire, down toppled the masonry of an outer tower, (marry beshrew their hands that built it not the firmer!) and blocked up the passage. Ivanhoe
As I understood it, the reconstruction effort was founded on the idea that the regime of Iraq had to be toppled, but that the Iraqi citizens/subjects should be helped in recovering from the war and hopefully becoming a democracy. Matthew Yglesias » Back to the Schools
They all toppled on top of one another, a tangled mess of arms and legs.
Jeff topples over backwards, and stops moving.
We felt rather daring, braving the possibility of confronting the dreaded predators in order to be toppled by a few lazy waves.
The correspondent aroused, heard the crash of the toppled crests.
You helped topple the evil empire. Times, Sunday Times
The fighting is part of a mounting offensive in recent weeks by rebel groups aiming to topple the government of long-term Chadian ANC Daily News Briefing
The advantage of a bottle stopple is that it will require less copper during the cleaning process.
Turmoil in Middle East Thousands of Iranians gathered in several locations across Tehran, heeding calls in recent days by opposition leaders to demonstrate in solidarity with Egyptian and Tunisian protesters who recently toppled their own regimes. World Watch
Convoys of World War II vehicles and former soldiers trekking across the famous beaches evoked memories of the crucial push that eventually toppled the Third Reich.
He denies crimes against humanity and claims that he was the victim of a French plot to topple him from power. Times, Sunday Times
The car is so overladen with baggage that we can't see out the back window and four of us are white-knuckled with fear that the car will topple over and roll back down the hill.
The junta used lese-majesty as an excuse to stage the military coup that toppled Thaksin Shinawatra's government.
The pretenders to his crown have arrived at Cheltenham each year full of hope that they could be the one to topple the champ. The Sun
Two had to remove their shoes and one toppled, which always makes for uncomfortable viewing. Times, Sunday Times
In 2009 he was charged with conspiring to topple the government. Times, Sunday Times
So suddenly, Arab freedom has taken precedence over Israel and Palestine—or so says the much-maligned Arab Street, as it topples one tyrant and challenges the next. The Great Myth of Palestinian Statehood
Meanwhile, Jonathan Edwards saw his reign as European champion brought to an end as the triple jump great was toppled by Sweden's Christian Olsson.
The canvas-sided milk wagon toppled onto its side, shedding part of its load, completing blocking entry onto the motorway at junction 7, and exit from junction 8.
A mass of waves were sweeping the shoreline, and the turbulent water toppled trees and swept them towards both ends of the lake, now spread twice as wide as it had once been.
He is again caught by surprise and the two topple over.
In 2009 he was charged with conspiring to topple the government. Times, Sunday Times
He cited both Lyndon Johnson's and Richard Nixon's presidencies as examples of presidencies that were toppled by torrents of negative public criticism.
NIAMEY (AFP) - UN chief Ban Ki-moon added his voice to international condemnation of a coup that toppled Niger's president, but in the capital Niamey thousands celebrated WN.com - Articles related to ASIA HAND
They pretend to be an absent couple in order to grab a reservation at a trendy restaurant, and two hit men assume they are that couple and topple them into a screwball comedy.
Watching the England team's victory parade, I fear Freddie could topple from the upper deck of the open top bus at any moment.
Miners spearheaded a strike wave that toppled his government three months later.
It has shown mass action from below can topple governments and inflict a defeat on big business policies.
Burmese across the world will celebrate their 20th anniversary cries for freedom on 8th August which is also the first day of China's Olympics. 1988 popular uprising of Burma widely known as 'Four 8s uprising' toppled General Ne Win and his Burma Socialist Programme Party (BSPP), however, successive military regimes kept iron-gripping the power for the last two decades. Burma: Twenty years of military rule, the youth and alternative approach to democracy?
I produced from my pocket a little vial, containing matches, stoppled water-tight, and told him, that, though we were upset, we should still have some dry matches; at which he stared without saying a word. The Maine Woods
He would be toppled by force and his exiled arch-rival installed in his place. Times, Sunday Times
It was only over one year later that the opposition was able to revolt against and topple Milosevic.
A grieving daughter wants action after her elderly mother died when her mobility scooter toppled off a seafront promenade.
She screamed as she toppled onto the hood of the still-advancing vehicle.
She fell onto the ground, and I watched as the punch bowl toppled off the table and onto her head.
But there was also evidence of the fierce firefight the building had seen hours earlier with toppled statues and hundreds of artillery shells on the floor. The Sun
There he is drawn into the coup that topples the civilian government.
One imagines a string of men toppled behind her in ditches like crashed race cars. Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off
He was so excited that he toppled backwards bottom first into the bin. Times, Sunday Times
If the U.S., France and Britain can't topple a tinhorn despot like Gadhafi who is loathed by most of his own people, the damage to Western credibility will be severe and long-lasting. The Libya Stalemate
Wang's mausoleum was sacked soon after his kingdom was toppled.
The corporate juggernauts remain untoppled, the patriarchy is restored.
Women begin circling around the main attraction in the center, bumping into us and trying to topple us over, and consequently the bride and groom from their chairs. A wedding and christening in rural Oaxaca: The mandate of tradition
Crashing and echoing, the filing cabinet toppled end-over-end down the stairs as the thing heaved itself through the door aperture.
The rearmost row of boxes toppled from the back of the truck, crashing onto the road, and Ian glanced behind him as the thin cop shouted in surprise.
The second is demographically significant and can topple governments.
The German study found that learners had a slight tendency to topple backwards if they stopped too quickly. Times, Sunday Times
In 1964 a revolt in Hama almost toppled the then current Ba'athist regime, top-heavy with Alawites. Syria: Identity Crisis
In urban areas buildings topple over and giant cracks form in roads. Times, Sunday Times
And a leader can be toppled any moment by a simple ballot of the party's MPs. Times, Sunday Times
The vehicle had gone into a spin and toppled over a bridge barrier. The Sun
Ken looked above him in alarm and watched in shock as dirt, stones, support beams, all toppled on top of Ken, completely burying him alive.
In the harbour the winds tore the boats from their moorings and sent them waltzing out onto the open waves, where they were flung higher than the kirk steeple, only to be toppled down again and smashed to matchwood on the skerries.
Winds and rain toppled trees and electricity lines.
Marriage to her was the armature of my ego; remove the armature and I might topple like clay.
The Communist insurgents are waiting on a massive arms shipment in which to topple the current regime.
You helped topple the evil empire. Times, Sunday Times
The bear toppled out of the window and followed as fast as its stubby legs would allow.
She is thought to have lost her balance and toppled over backwards out of the opening, still clutching on to the toy. The Sun
The hem of her pants caught under her shoes and she toppled toward, taking the boy with her.
A few things toppled from the night stand on her side.
Six months after he was toppled as President by a popular uprising, he rejected the charges of corruption and murder against him. Times, Sunday Times
Then he turned his back on the vomit and the toppled idols, and stepped away to find a lungful of clean air to inhale. COLDHEART CANYON
With each lurch of the truck another flaming bale toppled off, coming to a flaming halt on the road or igniting the grass at its shoulder.
The excavator was sitting at the top of the hole, so it could lower a skip down for the mini digger to fill, when it toppled over.
However, in blowy conditions at St Teresa's pitch on the Glen Road in Belfast, the St. Louis boys finally made the dream become a reality as they toppled a very physical Loreto College, Coleraine team.
It is not the demand for consumer choice that threatens to topple repressive theocracies. Times, Sunday Times
He just released his hold and toppled slowly backwards. The Bullet Catchers
In the office the next morning several bookcases had toppled and some water from the fish tank had slopped into the tortoise pens (don't ask), but things were generally ok.
As I led up to the occurrence on Number Two hatch, when Mr. Pike had lifted up Larry and toppled him back with a mere slap from the ends of his fingers, I saw in Mr. Pike's eyes a warning, almost threatening, expression. CHAPTER VII
As I was searching through my bookcase for poetry books to see if I can glean some ideas another book toppled off the shelf.
The German study found that learners had a slight tendency to topple backwards if they stopped too quickly. Times, Sunday Times
The Dean's chair tips, and he topples over and falls, landing on the floor.
The Importance of Being Earnest plays like an over-embellished cake that topples under the weight of its own decoration.
The concern with lifting, he says, is that the mother could injure her back or lose balance and topple over.
The mortarless rock resisted, then toppled slowly. Father Swarat
Winds will be strong enough to topple trees. The Sun
A beloved antique clock that belonged to her mother was smashed, and a toppled bottle of sambuca left a sticky mess on a blue carpet. At N.Z. quake epicenter, screams and flying boulders
At Starbucks' corporate headquarters, the signature mermaid placard toppled into the parking lot below.
The trees that topple with heavy rain and strong winds are done in by the cemented pavements that choke their roots.
He just released his hold and toppled slowly backwards.
Does it then follow that we ought to endeavor to topple authoritarian governments, in order to secure peace?
There would be a fleeting glimpse of the three men flinging water in frantic haste, when she would topple over and fall into the yawning valley, bow down and showing her full inside length to the stern upreared almost directly above the bow. Chapter 17
We could see some of them which had toppled over and rolled down the precipitous slopes and remained upside down at most nauseating angles.
The bicycle toppled down to the ground.
`Had one almost topple over on me when I was working for NOAA. VITALS
The pile of books toppled over onto the floor.
He gave her a hard push which toppled her backwards into an armchair.
The duckling, christened Lucky, was waddling down Cyprus Road behind its mother with its nine brothers and sisters when it toppled over and fell into a storm drain.
We must not wait for external events like climate change to press harshly upon us or even topple us.
Tall and spindly, it looked as though it could topple over at the slightest touch. The Sun
I have been toppled by my own monstrous solipsism, hoodwinked by the belief that everything revolves around me. LOVE YOU MADLY
Images of the 8-foot-tall glass plate bearing Guevara's image, now toppled and shattered, were shown Friday on state television, which said the entire country "repudiated" the vandalism. Archive 2007-10-01
There was Captain Gleed's traveling desk, complete with ugly gash where he'd used it as a shield during the Indian Mutiny and which accounted for him surviving that spirited bid to topple the Raj. Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine
Iranians had had tried Monarchy (Shah) and he became sub-servient to the west, they tried ellected Mosadegh and he was toppled by the west, the north tried communist (Tudeh party) and they were sub-servient to Russia. Cairo protests:The west has a duty to nurture democracy | Observer editorial
The second is a referendum that could topple the Government and resolve little in the dispute. Times, Sunday Times
On April 1, 1933, the paper's front page proclaimed, "Dome Topples Off Statehouse: Officials Say Legislature Generated Too Much Hot Air.
A random air movement or passing lorry will cause it to topple: it could fall in any direction with equal probability.
Up in Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire, balls, often roughly hewn and traditionally of applewood, are used to topple skittles that are club shaped.
I pitched forward and toppled over the rail.
THIS was the weekend when East finally toppled West. The Sun
He fled the country in April after his father was toppled from power. Times, Sunday Times
And if they cannot topple the Mancunian giants, London bragging rights are not a bad consolation prize. Norwich City 0-2 Tottenham Hotspur | Premier League match report
It can be heard in advance by loud shrieking, and may run around your legs with ropes and topple you.
So geed up were they that they toppled their own elected leader. Times, Sunday Times
The chimney toppled over on the roof.
It took a brutal civil war to end slavery and federal troops to topple Jim Crow.
They dance along the knife-edge of self-parody and total irrelevance, but they never topple over.
The question is not whether they will be toppled, but why it requires an inflated running time of more than two hours for the swashbuckler to get the job done.
The Port Service's crane toppled as the Able Seaman was lifting a steel workbench from the tray of a semi-trailer on to a pontoon being used for maintenance work on the sail training ship Young Endeavour.
The two drivers, obeying hand signals from Charley, eased the toppled bulldozer away, steadily and with no rotating motion.
The crane toppled over when a skip of concrete was being lowered to the beach.
Similarly, the drive to topple God from his throne (or decentre him as a universal referent for all knowledge) is closely bound up with the emergence of freedom as a key political value in Liberalism.
He lost his balance,(sentence dictionary) staggered back against the rail and toppled over.
History is littered with once mighty industries that were toppled by innovation or forced to restructure radically. Times, Sunday Times
The toppled president declared in his distinctive handwriting that he had not resigned, as the coup leaders claimed, and was still in charge. Times, Sunday Times
The plot to topple the Labour leader unfolded on another day of chaos after the Brexit vote. Times, Sunday Times
It toppled over sideways onto the pavement and missed my son and I by about a yard.
Breathing became difficult, her muscles shook, and she toppled to her knees on the hard floor.
Such places, with their own aerial supply routes and security systems, could simultaneously withstand a siege and topple a government.
With mid-Atlantic states left sodden by an unusually wet summer, the winds toppled trees and rains flooded creeks and low-lying areas.
It would be foolish to say that this divide doesn't exist any more (it does), but it's no longer the kind of explosive issue that topples governments.
You simply fill the inside with copper and polish, place it inside the canister and fill the canister with copper and polish and secure it with the stopples as shown.
They had taken a ferry boat tour around the bay, and Grandma Evelyn had been scared to death that Helen would topple over the rail.

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