How To Use Tumbling In A Sentence

Tumbling down slopes near Wawona at the south end of the park, Chilnualna Creek - at its fattest and fastest this time of year - creates a series of foaming cascades around giant boulders.
He won the summit in the thick of howling wind and driving snow, providentially stumbling upon Trust
He also seems to write with little concern for cadence, leaving himself stumbling over excess syllables and quixotically stuffing verbal square pegs into musical round holes when it comes time to sing.
Miss H. B.'s eight guns would chatter and a Nazi "flamer" would go twisting and tumbling to earth. The HurricaneStory
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It was proving mens rea, the 'guilty mind', that was the stumbling block. Times, Sunday Times
Plant leans forward, vast swathes of hair tumbling down on either side of his weathered face. Times, Sunday Times
Star Trek didn't just offer the illimitable joys of William Shatner tumbling out of his chair every time the camera shook, or yet another sermon from the pen of Gene Roddenberry about how organized religion is a childish superstition.
But targeting them precisely and avoiding damage to surrounding healthy tissue have proved stumbling blocks. Times, Sunday Times
All three buses stopped outside the pool, and each disgorged a tumbling jumbling pile of wee kiddies, clutching their swim-bags and chattering like flocks of birds on a nature programme.
A faint path leads to an old shieling on the hillside, a soft sanctuary that gazes up the length of fjord - like Loch Hourn to where it becomes choked off by tumbling mountain slopes.
Out of the saloon he went and met Sylvester West the druggist stumbling along in the kind of heavy overshoes called arctics.
The shock of impact riddled both pilots with confusion, stumbling to regain control of their mechs.
To do so would constitute a stumbling block to the reconversion of Protestants who favored the new astronomy.
Raced, stumbling, skidding, along the path to the boathouse. DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
"I'm home!" I shout, stumbling over old Sylvia's gardening boots as I enter through the squint doorway.
No, he takes Scrooge to the market, and shows him the abundance there, especially the fruits sometimes literal of foreign trade: There were great, round, pot-bellied baskets of chestnuts, shaped like the waistcoats of jolly old gentlemen, lolling at the doors, and tumbling out into the street in their apoplectic opulence. A Dickens Of A Debate Between Mr. Scrooge And Mr. Say
For Cavour, leader of the unity movement called the Risorgimento, the biggest stumbling block to achieving his political goal was the Catholic Church. Emancipation
She moved on, stumbling a little in ornate huaraches the priestesses made her wear.
The writers juggled a nice mix of comedy, drama and romance pretty well, only occasionally stumbling into gooey sentimentality.
Taking another swig of his beer, his eyes came to rest on a stumbling figure walking away from the warmth of the large fire.
Get up early and make the most of your tumbling blonde hair. The Sun
My name echoed between us like a prayer, and I answered with a mewling cry, tumbling over the precipice again. Brush of Darkness
I could see a log flip upwards, tumbling end over end to hit the ground and cartwheel to a standstill like a caber.
I stayed off the glacier, stumbling down the left moraine, often catching myself with my arms just before slamming into glacial erratics.
Neil Armstrong went tumbling down the ladder and fell to the lunar surface in a cloud of grey dust.
One of the prettiest creatures you may catch sight of is a tumbling, crystalline, globe-shaped alga known as volvox.
Men love tumbling curls and artfully tousled hair. The Sun
Removing the debris could cause the rest of the building to come tumbling down.
Yes, Master, " she said, and then, turning about, stumbling and crying, the bell of the Coin Girl sounding, the coins jingling in the box on her neck, she fled up the street. Guardsman Of Gor
She was stumbling forward with outstretched hands when she ran into the blackberries. SLEEP WHILE I SING
Bulimus, whose shell is continued into a turret, moves almost in the same fashion, tumbling repeatedly as he goes. The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles
The top of the stick smashed the man's nose, sending him stumbling backwards before a swift slash caught him in the neck and threw him to the ground.
He looked down at it, more puzzled than pained, then struck her a backhanded swipe that had her stumbling back towards the door. EVERVILLE
Republican leaders hope this would tarnish his aura of invincibility and send him tumbling in the polls. Times, Sunday Times
An hour later we were still stumbling and fumbling through the trees and the quality and originality of our cursing had to be heard to be believed.
In the period since Tony Blair took office in May 1997, anatomies of Britain have been tumbling from the presses in dizzying profusion.
Thus we were stumbling on, very weary, very hungry, the man with the want in a constant wail, and Sonachan lamenting for suppers he had been saucy over in days of rowth and plenty, when a light oozed out of the grey-dark ahead of us, in the last place in the world one would look for any such sign of humanity. John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn
It is a precious boon to be rid of such an unnatural and ominous belief as that in the final disemboguing of the dead by sea and land, the tumbling of the rocks, the falling of the stars, and the everlasting torture of the condemned in a prison of fire. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life
They are tumbling down in wind-blown, varicoloured showers on to pavements and woodland floors everywhere. Times, Sunday Times
They'll deny it to the day they die, but if my parents met any other way than by stumbling drunkenly into each other at some kegger, I'll eat my shoe.
Finally the English officer, a great lanky fellow with his trouser leg half torn off and a bloody bandage round his knee, succeeded in wrenching the banner away, but the Frog officer, who was about four feet tall, grabbed an end of it, and they came stumbling down in my direction, yelling at each other in their respective lingoes, with their crews joining in. Flashman's Lady
She returned to looking through her own binoculars, to see the bird again acrobatically tumbling over and over beneath the branch.
‘The chances of us stumbling on one of the top guys are zero,’ he said.
It was somewhere we had visited on art college trips where, apart from the odd art gallery, the only Parisian experience we had was stumbling back through the red light district to our ropey hotel.
She took her arm away from her waist to push aside the drapes and open the door, stumbling into the dim room, lit only by a little oil lamp.
Witnesses told how they saw the cab of the truck tilt forward which sent the net tumbling down. The Sun
Then she sat with him, the twain toying and tumbling together till the morning, when she said, “Wait for me, till I go to him and wake him, so he may go to his shop, and I return to thee.” The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
‘Calm, calm,’ she chirred softly, a finger touching my jaw and hushing my stumbling chatter.
We could hear her stumbling about/around the bedroom in the dark.
A few more Interesting factsgoverning the aerodynamic tendencies of tumbling tabbies: Is there a Feline Pesematologist in the house?
Students coordinate some measures naturally, while stumbling through other more difficult measures.
Perhaps the major stumbling block to reunification is the military presence in South Korea.
Lifted from their debut EP, this minimalistic yet charmingly whimsical slice of lo-fi alt-folk opens with nought but a lone slappy bass riff and jerky surreal prose, before blossoming out into a cacophony of wondrous twangy noises, and ends up sounding like Badly Drawn Boy, Sufjan Stevens and a parliament of owls caught up in a weird feathery, beardy group hug, happily tumbling down an upwards escalator in slow motion. This week's new singles
The actors also play the horse that pulls their cart and perform juggling, tumbling and let off mock cannon fire.
He reeled backwards, losing his footing, stumbling behind one of the buildings.
It's a galling thought when, with a little research, you could find great carpets of golden chanterelles just begging to be picked for free - the culinary equivalent of stumbling across a pirate's hoard.
Her bare feet beat against the ground, stumbling over roots of the giant trees, until she came to a halt at the very center of the enormous trees.
And even then, with his own mount stumbling and nearly pitching him headforemost at each lurch, he was forced to admire the mare's goatlike agility, for she descended into the gorge in running leaps, never setting a wrong foot. In The Time Of Light
There are the requisite dark interiors, piercing blades of light, gunplay a-plenty, saucy dames, and stumbling stoolies.
Nicola found herself dodging death as she made her way down Dooncarton Mountain with the landslides tumbling down either side of her.
He has gained provincial colours for athletics, cross-country, swimming, biathlon, triathlon, duathlon, cycling, gymnastics and tumbling.
I watch the sea and I think I see in the patterns of foamy surf tumbling arms and legs thrown together or held up, up in surrender. SEA MUSIC
Let us not, therefore judge one another any more, but _judge this rather, that no man put a stumbling block, or an occasion to fall in his brother's way_. Conflict of Northern and Southern Theories of Man and Society Great Speech, Delivered in New York City
Surely this should be a primary aim, not a feeble stumbling block? The Residue Report - an action plan for safer food
Weary and footsore, they trundled slowly out of the forest, the horses stumbling slightly despite the bright sunlight filtering in overhead.
By now the little fellow was on his last legs and kept stumbling and falling as he forced himself him to his feet and as a result he was disqualified even though he touched the tape first.
Backscuttling for the hop off with the odds altogether in favour of his tumbling into the river, Jaun just then I saw to collect from the gentlest weaner among the weiners, (who by this were in half droopleaflong mourning for the passing of the last post) the familiar yellow label into which he let fall a drop, smothered a curse, choked a guffaw, spat expectoratiously and blew his own trumpet. Finnegans Wake
That clatter you hear is scales tumbling from eyes across the nation. Times, Sunday Times
I've pretty much done the hiragana and katakana sections now, which was a major stumbling block.
Footpaths worn into loose rock on mountainsides can be as narrow as the width of two hiking boots, with thousand-foot drop-offs that can send any stumbling climber into an uncontrollable slide to icy glacial rivers.
Our attention is then drawn to the case of Ultra-Orthodox Jews in Israel and the question of whether profane work is a stumbling block to spiritual depth.
Still, there was the day when a 100 mph wind gust, known as a katabatic wind, ripped the tent Mortvedt was in from its stakes and sent him tumbling down the ice. Undefined
It rose above the city 's tumbling sprawl. The Crossing-Place
She did lose her balance and fell, so that's why I called a medic to take a look at her, but it wasn't like she was stumbling-down drunk. ClickOnDetroit.com - ClickOnDetroit.com News
Thorn ran and thrust the stick into the back of the demon, making him lose his balance, and stumbling.
One protester died after tumbling from the Golden Gate Bridge.
Overall, there were far fewer deals in natural resources than expected amid tumbling oil prices. Times, Sunday Times
BRITAIN is set for this winter's first widespread snow today as strong easterly winds send temperatures tumbling. The Sun
His mission was to make sure I didn't steal the scene by doing something unfortunate, such as tumbling down the flight of stairs that led from the set's upper level, where most of the supers mingled, to the stars who would be flirting and fighting and dining at the Café Momus below. Bravo, to the Rear Stage
Lowly valley" hardly does justice to the glories of the local scenery which offers tumbling streams, plentiful birdlife and the northern hairy wood ant. Rudely-named places guides let walkers pick their way to The Nostrils
But she had a sense of foreboding which was entangled with an image of Bruno stumbling amidst Johannes's scattered pictures. DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
After two minutes of stumbling, the song switches gears, grinding against itself before going for a brief jaunt, and then concluding with a reprisal of the introductory shamble.
The earthquake and its aftershocks dislodged many rocks and mines, sending them tumbling onto roads once considered safe.
The breakers came tumbling onto the shore.
Monday is her day to drive the carpool, Tuesday the girls go to ballet, then tumbling class.
But ask any long-term employee and a cascade of rorts, real and imagined, come tumbling out.
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
A huge amount of electricity surged through his body, sending him stumbling back a few feet.
The garden was beautiful, plants and shrubs tumbling around a vibrant lawn in the centre of which a fountain tinkled and played.
A failure of confidence in them could still bring the entire capitalist edifice tumbling down. Times, Sunday Times
I asked if she ever considered the danger or thought of fleeing the aftershocks and the tumbling buildings.
This again is so discourteous to your fellow patrons, and the performers, who are all quite distracted by your shuffling and stumbling in the dark.
I am worth more, for it is I who bring them forth, sing them forth - luminous nacreous spheres tumbling forth, scattering on the ground. Valentines, part the first
Meanwhile, the witnesses of the rural wedding had all skedaddled -- to borrow a Greek word -- into the woods, in dire confusion, tearing dresses, pulling down 'back hair,' hitching hoop skirts, and tumbling over blackberry vines -- but each intent on increasing the distance from the mad cow. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
Richard Moon retired from the Board in 1891, removing the main stumbling block to progress in design of coaching stock.
All three of them went tumbling to the floor as the very foundation they were on began to quake violently.
She had been running for four days now, a harum-scarum tumbling flight through passages and tunnels.
The main stumbling block is the cost of installing the gigantic network of pipes needed to carry hot water from the central boiler to hundreds of homes.
If you slip, you go tumbling over the roof into the expanse below.
It is a classic Gehry structure, formed from undulating polished steel and tumbling blocks of brushed aluminium that reminds Berners-Lee, he tells me, of the higgledy-piggledy Italian village one of his relatives grew up in. The MIT factor: celebrating 150 years of maverick genius
The force of the collision sent the Norman tumbling backward, right over the cantle of his saddle.
The goateed 49-year-old father of five says work is coming back slowly and builders are stumbling over each other to bid on jobs. Soft Economy Lingers in Obama Vacation Spot
The earthquake sent buildings tumbling into one another like failing dominoes.
Terrors assailed him, tumbling over one another.
It got so that I was pushing people out of my way, stumbling up the narrow escalator, and finally out into the open, but still walking fast, not wanting to turn around and see whether my pursuer had given up the chase.
The first stumbling block for most students is the specialized terminology of agrostology.
He went reeling backwards, stumbling back into his room.
Sterne’s incontinuity of narration, the purposeful irrelation of parts, the use of anecdote and episode, which to the stumbling reader reduce his books to collections of disconnected essays and instances, gave to Laurence Sterne in Germany A Contribution to the Study of the Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Eighteenth Century
A shaky laugh bubbles past his lips, and dizzy words start tumbling out of him.
The environmental message is conveyed mostly through Jan Hartley's projections, which begin with the clear tumbling waters of a river and, over the course of the four operas, depict forests despoiled by logging and acid rain, smoke-belching power plants and pipes pumping sewage into rivers. Ring Around the Obvious
The death of William, his only legitimate son, in 1120 in the wreck of the White Ship brought Henry's whole carefully contrived edifice tumbling down.
The USDA report due out Friday could erase the impact of an increased estimate for grain inventories the department issued in a separate report last week that had sent prices tumbling. Poor Harvest Expectations Lift Corn Futures
Existing legislation concerning statutory appointments is considered to be one of the stumbling blocks for multiskilling, and discussions are taking place to arrive at acceptable solutions. ANC Daily News Briefing
Funding is also a potential stumbling block. Times, Sunday Times
In his bedroom, -stumbling over a pair of running shoes, he relented and turned the knurl on the pull-out wall lamp. DEAD LINES
The second new stumbling block to any agreement emerged in Hamburg, where Ms. Merkel's center-right Christian Democratic Union was handed what the chancellor called a "bitter defeat," the German equivalent of President Barack Obama's folksier, "shellacking. The Euro Zone's Road to Recovery Keeps Getting Bumpier
In 1973 (Science, Vol. 181, p. 1053) I showed that while the tectum was needed to react to moving prey, another visual area processed stationary edges, allowing frogs to dodge stationary barriers and to avoid tumbling into holes in the ground. 'In the River of Consciousness': An Exchange
I have an 1880's silk pieced quilt top with a beautiful graphical tumbling blocks pattern in a lot of dark and jewel colors (probably bits of suit linings and ties originally).
The one stumbling block is perhaps Graham's voice. It remains as reedy and weedy as ever, giving the impression of the love-lorn loser that this critic suspects he rather likes to play up to.
The road then bends to the right, past a farm cottage with a boisterous beck tumbling from the brackened heights behind.
Across the valley, towering above you, is the snow-covered dome of Mont Blanc, glaciers tumbling down its northern face –and the razor-sharp ‘needles’ of several aiguilles, set in a jagged line across the southern horizon.
I never thought something was amiss until today when I came across this forum and a chance stumbling on to some related websites.
The old barn we bought to convert into flats was practically tumbling down.
Bushes and trees grew wantonly, spilling and tumbling over one another.
The poor consul got a lamp for us with a bit of wax-candle, such as I wonder his means could afford; the shabby janissary marched ahead with his tin mace; the two laquais-de-place, that two of our company had hired, stepped forward, each with an old sabre, and we went clattering and stumbling down the streets of the town, in order to seize upon this cadi in his own divan. Notes of a Journey From Cornhill to Grand Cairo
He shook his head, sleek hair tumbling down into his face as usual.
Stumbling into the kitchen in his boxer shorts, he rummaged through the refrigerator for something to placate his growl. TALES OF THE CITY
bereave" in Eze 36: 13; but "cause to fall" or "stumble," in the Hebrew text or Chetib, being the more difficult reading, is the one least likely to come from a corrector; also, it forms a good transition to the next subject, namely, the moral cause of the people's calamities, namely, their falls, or stumblings through sin. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
On the right, the engine throttle controlling nearly 7,000 pounds of thrust was no help to the now severely tail-heavy tumbling mass of metal.
The philosophy behind this is that the best way to find fun is by stumbling ass-backwards into it, and what better way is there to stumble than drunkenly?
One of the biggest stumbling blocks in the proposed compromise was just two words: the term "legally binding. NEWS.com.au | Top Stories
Stumbling along the way, to someone to leave, we are all in the orgy.
She swung a powerful blow to the side, stumbling from its momentum.
The scores in the match came tumbling from the often-repeated sheer attacking onslaughts so frequently launched at blistering pace by both teams.
Above them, a giant serac - a hanging block of glacial ice - had collapsed and was tumbling down the couloir.
It feels good to be among the hills once more, especially when we hike the short distance from the village up to the succession of tumbling falls known as the Cascades des Anglais.
The valley is a riot of wildflowers, aspen groves, and tumbling rivers.
The major stumbling block is getting the readies to put it on a stage.
This legal muddle was to prove an unremovable stumbling clock, and to frustrate yet again years of efforts - just when these efforts were at last showing promise of bearing fruit and forcing our institutions to account for their deeds
Half an hour later, we round the last bend, and there, tumbling into a wide, sand-fringed plunge-pool are the silky cataracts of Twin Falls.
Maddy, always the early riser, was already in the kitchen making breakfast when Gabby and Penny came stumbling into the kitchen, still only half awake.
The biggest danger to Farah on a morning so stifling that organisers put out a drinks table for the athletes on the track during the heats was the mini chaos going on around him as, first, a chain reaction of runners clipping each other saw plenty of stalling and stumbling behind him and then, nearing the business end of the race, two athletes tripped over each other and out of the race. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
He reeled backwards, losing his footing, stumbling behind one of the buildings.
The kids all wore life-jackets and we soon stopped worrying about them tumbling overboard.
A major stumbling block in the development of these technologies to complement diesel engines has been the high levels of sulphur and of sooty particulates which rapidly foul emission reduction systems.
She glides into the room - immaculately attired in pink and grey, one long earring dangling like a silver icicle from her right ear, tangerine hair tumbling halfway down her back - and curls up on the sofa.
Other stumbling blocks include differences in the regulations of individual stock exchanges on voting rights of shares in take-over targets.
The question of disarmament proved a major stumbling block to agreement.
The underwater landscape is a tumbling continuation of the cliffs above, with huge slabs of rock strewn about on a bed of chocolate-coloured sand.
Until you have developed your sea legs, boats can be floating booby traps, with things like cleats placed awkwardly around the deck to stub bare feet or even send a guest tumbling overboard.
With a funny little sigh that was half a laugh, he moved on to the buttons along the front of my bodice, fingers stumbling over them as if he'd rather be undoing them rather than buttoning them up.
But his power and wealth hide a dark secret, which when revealed brings his world tumbling down around him.
An overnight plunge in commodity prices sent the Australian dollar tumbling to a five month low and currency dealers believe there's more falls to come.
It may as well have been thirty for all the headway they were making, stumbling blindly into the stinging bite of the wind.
More than a century later an American research assistant book uncovers the secret after stumbling upon one of the writer's letters.
The broadwing hit the release on the doorway, and rammed it with his shoulder, tumbling through as the panel gave way. The Black Gryphon
She prepared to plunge her silver dagger down when Lucas kicked her from behind and sent her tumbling.
That way, your bud doesn't have to deal with stumbling or losing his or her balance when the train comes to a bumpy stop.
Father Poole closed his eyes and joined his hands, Latin phrases stumbling over his tongue.
If that next race is the bottom of the new grade, this lucky dog might have a chance of stumbling into the money again.
She and her sister Jodelle worked as a dancing and tumbling act for Quatrain Pudundruh, a Twi'lek entrepreneur on Ord Mantell who was forced to sell the sisters into slavery during a rough year.
S'long -- Mr. Barton!" she called listlessly over the other, and started on, stumblingly, clatteringly, up the abruptly steep and precipitous mountain trail -- a little dust-colored gnome on a dust-colored horse, with the dutiful gray pinking cautiously along behind her. Little Eve Edgarton
The poor consul got a lamp for us with a bit of wax-candle, such as I wonder his means could afford; the shabby janissary marched ahead with his tin mace; the two laquais-de-place, that two of our company had hired, stepped forward, each with an old sabre, and we went clattering and stumbling down the streets of the town, in order to seize upon this cadi in his own divan. Notes of a Journey From Cornhill to Grand Cairo
His "articulacy" comes straight from the teleprompter, he is stumbling and adrift when speaking off-the-cuff, and his "political adroitness" is non-existent, to wit the types of people with whom he chooses to associate himself. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
Men love tumbling curls and artfully tousled hair. The Sun
The price of PCs has been tumbling recently.
The failure of schools to offer working mothers more flexibility, she believes, remains the major stumbling block.
“It is not necessary you should altogether abandon him, though you dismiss him to another service, or to a calling better suiting his station and character,” said the preacher; “elsewhere he maybe an useful and profitable member of the commonweal — here he is but a makebate, and a stumbling-block of offence. The Abbot
I don't want people stumbling around break-ing ankles in rabbit-holes or running into an alicorn and getting skewered. Elvenborn
As they fly they call a tumbling silvery trill, musical and intimate, that seems to keep them together and makes you look up. A Year on the Wing
Heavy cloudbursts over hills around the resort brought silt and mud tumbling down onto roadways, leaving motorists stranded.
Within an hour's drive of Scotland's elegantly-terraced capital are snow-dusted crags and high, peaty moors, tumbling cascades, sinuous, copper-coloured rivers and silvery lochs a mile or more deep.
You are stumbling in the darkness. Christianity Today
Perhaps the major stumbling block to reunification is the military presence in South Korea.
Stumbling forward unsteadily, he tripped over a tree root and hit the ground face-first.
Tulsa is a classic cottage garden, with more than 500 varieties of perennials tumbling over each other in a battle for space.
Tripping and stumbling in her haste, she raced up the stairs and pelted for her room at the end of the hall.
A treaded black tape now runs along the curbs because people didn't notice them and were stumbling.
Only rarely is the lack of sufficient minimum capability a real stumbling block to change.
“What’s bodach?” he asked, stumbling over the foreign phrase. The Lightkeeper
And then all the life and lilt went out of them, and they were again maundering and futile things, getting in one another's way, stumbling and shuffling through the darkness, hesitating to grasp ropes, and, when they did take hold, invariably taking hold of the wrong rope first. CHAPTER VIII
In his bedroom, -stumbling over a pair of running shoes, he relented and turned the knurl on the pull-out wall lamp. DEAD LINES
And let us not forget the chilling spectacle of that State of the Union address, with the claque and brass popping up with applause at every stumbling word like so many automatons at a court masque for their Sun King.
Methodical studies in a sketchbook show the results of stumbling various colors over a dark red composed of cadmium red and umber.
On the night of his scuffle with a patrolwoman in Lexington, Va., the officer found Huguely stumbling into traffic. Suspect in U-Va. murder case accused of slamming ex's head into wall in fight
He sibilated sharply and slammed Trey's iced coffee on the counter, stumbling back frantically.
Using her legs she performed a scissor kick that caused him to come tumbling down… and that's when the teacher decided to walk in.
She was running and stumbling as she ran, talking to herself, exclaiming, gesticulating; her fair hair was in disorder and her shawl (the burnous and the mantle were unknown in those days) had slipped off her shoulders and was kept on by one pin. Lieutenant Yergunov's Story
I swung and clubbed him on the side of the jaw with the manacles, sending him tumbling.
By the train which bore me away from Springville I went only far enough to put me safely beyond the possibility of stumbling upon any of the places where I had hitherto sought work; though as to that, I had little hope of escaping the relentless blacklister who had been set upon me. Branded
The truth {164} concerning the "inevitableness" of sin was stated by our Lord when He said, "It must needs be that occasions" -- _viz. _, of stumbling -- "come; but woe to that man through whom the occasion cometh. Problems of Immanence: studies critical and constructive
The issue proved the stumbling block in the talks, which began at the end of May and were leaked at the end of last month. Times, Sunday Times
The government seems rudderless, stumbling around looking for an agenda.
A tumbling weir creates the localized conditions of an upland brook wherever it crosses a silty lowland stream.
There was a clattering and tumbling as everything spilled out on to the floor.
Babies' high center of gravity, the study notes, makes them susceptible to tumbling head-first over such rails. New data on crib injuries
He stood there for almost ten minutes, mind working, stumbling over itself, trying to find a pattern. YESTERDAY'S SHADOW
The presence of a longer disordered tag thus exerts a greater frictional drag, affecting the module tumbling in solution.
The issue has been a major stumbling block to normalizing diplomatic relations between North Korea and Japan.

How To Use Tumbling In A Sentence

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