How to Use tumble in a Sentence

tumble

1 of 2 verb

• He tripped and tumbled to the ground.
• She slipped and tumbled down the hill.
• Water tumbled over the rocks.
• The satellite was tumbling out of control.
• The statue came tumbling down during the riots.
• He tumbled into bed and fell asleep.
• Everyone came tumbling out of the bar at closing time.
• The Israeli currency has tumbled close to 4% in the past 10 days.
  — Laura He, CNN, 16 Oct. 2023
• The voice-over children tumble in, wanting to play hide-and-seek.
  — Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 9 Mar. 2023
• The sun sparkling off the chalets and storefronts in the small town that tumbled down the mountainside before us.
  — Devin Friedman, Travel + Leisure, 11 Nov. 2023
• The news sent the company's stock tumbling 12% in a single day.
  — Max Zahn, ABC News, 6 Mar. 2023
• The prices of the precious metals have tumbled, with rhodium’s price down to one-sixth of its 2021 peak.
  — Jasmine Cui, NBC News, 5 Nov. 2023
• Will mortgage rates soar — or tumble back to the 5 percent range?
  — Jonathan Lansner, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Jan. 2024
• The rodents, about 15 in all, tumbled out onto a table, then streamed down its legs to the floor.
  — WIRED, 7 Oct. 2023
• Eleven rate hikes by the Fed have helped send inflation tumbling from its peak over the past year and a half.
  — Paul Wiseman, Fortune, 5 Apr. 2024
• The rocket flown on the April 20 test flight didn't make it this far before tumbling out of control.
  — Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 18 Nov. 2023
• This has caused the price for gas to tumble from their summer highs as the EU cannot soak up any more supply to hoard.
  — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 21 Nov. 2022
• Up on his feet and out of his crease to take away the angle, the classic style of the day, Gilbert tumbled backward in a heap like a felled bull.
  — Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Aug. 2023
• And the amount of food the West Bank and Gaza actually produce has tumbled by 30% since then.
  — Topher L. McDougal, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2023
• Treasury yields tumbled in the bond market on such bets.
  — Stan Choe, Fortune, 14 Dec. 2023
• There is a watchfulness to her, a sense of thoughts tumbling behind those eyes.
  — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2024
• Unable to satisfy them all, the house of cards tumbled.
  — Leo Schwartz, Fortune Crypto, 6 Oct. 2023
• Boeing shares have tumbled about 24% since the end of December, the most in almost two years.
  — Alicia Diaz, Fortune, 10 Mar. 2024
• While Knight and Boyle moved up the list of richest people, Boersma tumbled.
  — oregonlive, 14 Apr. 2023
• Goods prices held steady for the month, after tumbling 1.6% in May, according to the BLS report.
  — Alicia Wallace, CNN, 13 July 2023
• The third looks at the tumbling global birthrate and hard societal choices ahead.
  — Simon Montlake, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Apr. 2024
• Flip it over, and the beads tumble down the curved path, making pleasing rainfall noises.
  — Rachel Rothman, Good Housekeeping, 24 Oct. 2022
• But goods prices that had been tumbling rose in February.
  — Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 29 Mar. 2024
• Keep in mind, these cloths should be air dried instead of tumbled, which may add an additional step to your laundry routine.
  — Jenna Clark, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 Apr. 2024
• Stock prices tumbled Wednesday as traders tried to judge how the latest inflation report might offer some clues to the path of future rate cuts by the Federal Reserve.
  — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 10 Apr. 2024

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tumble

2 of 2 noun

• The rough-and-tumble of a commercial kitchen wasn’t the thing.
  — Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2022
• And the tumble has called attention to the risks that the company faces.
  — New York Times, 20 May 2022
• From the moment your child takes their first steps, they're bound to take some tumbles.
  — Stacey Colino, Parents, 20 Sep. 2023
• But then … Ossai pushed Mahomes to the ground and both went down in a wild tumble.
  — Dan Shaughnessy, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Jan. 2023
• Rough-and-tumble rivals slow games down and break up play.
  — Joshua Robinson, WSJ, 15 Nov. 2022
• Below the bollards, the land dips sharply into a tumble of foliage that has cropped up on the slope.
  — Melina Walling, The Arizona Republic, 3 Oct. 2022
• After the 2019 tumble, the Iron Man found himself with two metal plates in his neck.
  — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 10 Sep. 2022
• Just don’t forget to air dry it rather than throwing it in the tumble dryer.
  — Jessica MacDonald, Travel + Leisure, 8 Dec. 2023
• It can even be tossed in the washing machine and tumble dried on low for easy cleaning.
  — Amy Schulman, Peoplemag, 1 Sep. 2022
• When sales of briefs and boxers start to tumble, a recession is likely in the cards.
  — Dallas News, 9 Oct. 2022
• But this year’s tumble from the highs of summer is steeper than usual.
  — Suzanne Rowan Kelleher, Forbes, 2 Aug. 2022
• Empathy is learned in part through rough-and-tumble play in preschool.
  — Matt Villano, CNN, 19 Aug. 2022
• A little tumble and a cracked fibula weren't going to keep her home.
  — Elana Scherr, Car and Driver, 6 Aug. 2023
• The stock market has found some footing over the last week after a roller-coaster start to the year where a swift rise gave way to a sharp tumble.
  — Stan Choe, ajc, 6 Mar. 2023
• Ready for the rough-and-tumble outdoor life, the loveseat posed virtually no knock-over risk.
  — Lydia Price, Travel + Leisure, 9 Feb. 2023
• But if CEOs warn about troubles ahead, another tumble may be on the way.
  — CBS News, 19 July 2022
• Keep all of the mesh and padding intact by avoiding a heated tumble.
  — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 2 Nov. 2023
• One daughter lay on my right, her little sister on my left, a tumble of heavy limbs and sleep.
  — Various Staff Writers, Special Correspondents, and Special Contributors, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Dec. 2023
• Through videos and livestreams, the public got to see Fritz tumble around his indoor habitat, cozy up to mom Bibi and munch on lettuce and hay.
  — The Enquirer, 18 Aug. 2022
• If the move holds through the close, the stock will have almost fully recovered from last Friday's tumble.
  — Chelsey Dulaney, WSJ, 30 Mar. 2023
• Balancing the lush, farm eggs is a tumble of vivid greens tossed in a sharp dressing that cuts through their velvety fat.
  — Dana McMahan, The Courier-Journal, 1 Mar. 2023
• Don’t use fabric softener or bleach, which will damage the fibers, and tumble-dry on low.
  — Laura Daily, Washington Post, 7 June 2022
• SkyBridge, meanwhile, saw its biggest fund tumble 39% last year due in part to its bad bet on FTX.
  — Chloe Taylor, Fortune, 7 Feb. 2023
• But George’s mystique took tumble a year later with Dark Horse.
  — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 31 May 2023
• Taylor Swift nearly took a nasty tumble twice during her Eras Tour shows in Tokyo.
  — Hanna Lustig, Glamour, 9 Feb. 2024
• On those gritty streets, I was trained to punch, kick, tumble, and fall…and then get up and do it all over again—take after take, film after film.
  — Erica Gonzales, ELLE, 18 Oct. 2022
• Jay Stone grew up in the rough-and-tumble world of Chicago ward politics, the son of a longtime city alderman.
  — Megan O’Matz, ProPublica, 25 May 2022
• That’d mark a 52% tumble from the Keanu Reeves action epic’s previous outing.
  — J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 8 Apr. 2023
• Trump’s boorishness is of a piece with what some of them view as the rough-and-tumble nature of political life.
  — New York Times, 3 Aug. 2022
• This is also machine washable and dryer-safe on the low tumble setting for easier care.
  — Dorian Smith-Garcia, Parents, 23 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024