How to Use tumbling in a Sentence

tumbling

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  • One wrong step would send her tumbling to the hard dirt beneath.
    — Sarah Fowler, The Seattle Times, 19 Jan. 2018
  • Sent the pound tumbling, driving up the cost of those imports.
    — David Goldman, CNN, 7 July 2022
  • Lee hopes to add a fourth tumbling pass to her floor exercise for the Olympics.
    — Rachel Blount, Star Tribune, 29 June 2021
  • That should send prices of the drug tumbling, investors will be watching to see if the same happens to stock prices.
    — Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 6 Feb. 2023
  • Trump’s win in Trumbull marked the latest tumbling of what had been a blue wall of sorts in much of Eastern Ohio.
    — Rich Exner, cleveland, 3 Nov. 2020
  • Then his putter caught fire on the tumbling, pristine greens.
    — Brian Wicker, Star Tribune, 24 Aug. 2020
  • Then they were both thrown on the sand by the shore break, along with their tumbling, eight-hundred-pound vehicle.
    — William Finnegan, The New Yorker, 23 May 2022
  • Her floor routine, filled with high-flying tumbling, lifted her from eighth place to fifth in the all-around.
    — Rachel Blount, Star Tribune, 25 June 2021
  • However, not all items can withstand the heat and tumbling of a dryer.
    — Cori Sears, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Oct. 2023
  • Biles kept all three of her tumbling passes on the floor inbounds, something that was a problem at times in 2021.
    — Will Graves, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Aug. 2023
  • The greenback’s climb has sent the euro, British pound and Japanese yen tumbling.
    — Will Feuer, WSJ, 2 June 2022
  • But running Apple and Pixar, tumbling and thriving, earned him a lot of wisdom in his 56 years.
    — Christina Passariello, Washington Post, 1 Apr. 2023
  • Key took first in jumps, Liberty was first in tumbling and dance, and Westminster was first in stunts.
    — Carroll County Times Staff, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 10 Apr. 2021
  • When Johnson’s appointment was first announced last year, the news sent the stock tumbling.
    — Leslie Patton, Bloomberg.com, 27 Apr. 2017
  • One misstep, though, sent her tumbling into the arms of a backup dancer, who caught her from below.
    — Eric Todisco, PEOPLE.com, 29 Nov. 2019
  • A year later, Equifax disclosed a massive breach that sent its share price tumbling.
    — Asjylyn Loder, WSJ, 16 Apr. 2018
  • The projections arrived days after the latest rate hike from the Fed, which sent the stock market tumbling.
    — Max Zahn, ABC News, 21 Dec. 2022
  • Before the news, which was certain to send the price of ImClone stock tumbling, Waksal attempted to sell his shares.
    — Jim Osman, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2022
  • We were given a pretty large tumbling composter over a year ago and no one really knows how to use it.
    — oregonlive, 13 Dec. 2020
  • On the first routine of the first U.S. event, floor exercise, McCallum bounced out of bounds on the landing of her initial tumbling pass.
    — Rachel Blount, Star Tribune, 25 July 2021
  • Grace McCallum stepped out of bounds on her second tumbling pass.
    — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 27 July 2021
  • But with Curaleaf’s share price tumbling and cannabis prices depressed, the company walked away from three of the biggest markets in the country.
    — Mike Rogoway, Anchorage Daily News, 16 July 2023
  • The latest move from Weibo sent Bitcoin’s price tumbling.
    — Eamon Barrett, Fortune, 8 June 2021
  • That was a shock that sent Freeport’s stock tumbling after Adkerson revealed it on April 24.
    — Danielle Bochove, Bloomberg.com, 5 June 2018
  • After an hour of gentle tumbling, about half of the water has been vaporized.
    — Tyler Kord, Popular Mechanics, 29 June 2019
  • The new front in the trade war is also sending commodities from soybeans to copper tumbling.
    — Grant Smith, Houston Chronicle, 6 Apr. 2018
  • The theft is public, but the scammers used a mixing and tumbling service called Tornado Cash to try to obscure their tracks.
    — Chris Stokel-Walker, Wired, 2 Nov. 2021
  • Biles sprung onto fans a new tumbling run at the 2019 world championships with that mind-blowing triple-double.
    — Alice Park, Time, 24 June 2021
  • Cultivars such as winter or pink jasmine grow in lush, robust shapes, with tumbling stems and blooms that emit a fresh perfume.
    — Karen Hugg, Washington Post, 12 Feb. 2024
  • Now, a combination of high apartment rents and tumbling prices for commercial buildings has fueled the urge to make corporate warrens habitable.
    — Curbed, 24 Jan. 2024

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