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Meanings of tumble in English
Synonyms
Examples for "twig"
Examples for "twig"
1
In India the tooth-brush consists of a twig or a little branch.
2
Once more she listened for the breaking twig and the light step.
3
Suddenly a twig was heard to snap in the thicket before him.
4
Yellow-Knobs hung up his hammock under a twig in the rose garden.
5
Then he took a twig from the bush and set him free.
1
The resulting lower prices could help the technology catch on far quicker.
2
The hinges are on one trunk and the catch on the other.
3
We think it will catch on, said Omega ATS President Mike Bignell.
4
Steel cases offered the remains of the day's catch on crushed ice.
5
Instead, the brass catch on top of the case popped open easily.
1
It seems strange, but the husband always seems to get wise last.
2
Say, will you get wise to the dude with the red necktie?
3
But what if the pirates get wise, and start wearing earplugs?
4
But, so close as this, they'd get wise in a minute.
5
You've got to get wise to the trick of holding what you get.
1
I was sure they'd get onto the list this time, but no.
2
Bastarache had managed to get onto the twenty and was heading west.
3
Just get onto that house; it looks like a mission-style switch engine.
4
But 2005, Sina opened my blog, forced me to get onto internet.
5
Lennon had one saved, with Defoe unable to get onto the rebound.
1
Bush stepped past her and snapped the latch on the office door.
2
Pete's left hand drifted down to the latch on the safety belt.
3
It finds things it can latch on to and multiplies the threat.
4
He slid the latch on the cell door across and stepped inside.
5
As I lifted the latch on the gate he opened his trap.
1
The cotton on the hillside fields wasn't going to amount to anything.
2
We cross a gravel road with cotton on either side of it.
3
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4
I just couldn't find the time to plant cotton on it this year.
5
Consequently, there were many who cultivated cotton on a small scale.
1
In a live environment there's no way to get it 'just right'.
2
Handing him a familiar problem was the best way to get it.
3
Where's New Zealand going to get it's food from in 30 years?
4
We had to allow people to help us get it this far.
5
I love jollof rice, but never get it quite right at home.
Usage of tumble in English
1
We sink in water; in air we tumble; on earth we stumble.
2
Shane Long obviously likes a tumble but is clearly a good player.
3
The tumble returned shares to levels last seen in late October 1999.
4
We don't often see power take such a tumble in this country.
5
If stock values tumble, so does the value of funds under management.
6
But the weapon had been lost in the tumble down the cliff.
7
Somebody might find the dome in the dark, and tumble into it.
8
Paris pressed forward despite a tumble by Cap Gemini, the software company.
9
Then I had to lie down in the bed and tumble it.
10
That led many mobile users to switch operators, causing prices to tumble.
11
You respect me; but how if one day your respect should tumble?
12
At the base of the knolls he encountered a tumble-down stake-and-rider fence.
13
So much about this young, rough-and-tumble country reminded me of my own.
14
The only country to tumble further was Syria, rocked by civil war.
15
And they live in that little tumble-down house in Mullen Lane, and-
16
Still, the drastic pace of the tumble has sent many companies scrambling.
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Translations for tumble
Catalan
Tumble through the time
Tumble across language varieties
Ireland
Common
Australia
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United Kingdom
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