noun
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
come tumbling down
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Soon her marriage came tumbling down.
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And the marriage comes tumbling down as Roth, like a Roth hero, demands to become unbound from marital ties.
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Another set of walls comes tumbling down.
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As the Holy Spirit filled me, the barriers came tumbling down.
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He watched a huge white mountain collapse and come tumbling down on him.
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One wrong move, we realized with horror, and the doors could come tumbling down.
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The statues came tumbling down all over the Soviet Union.
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Then the stage came tumbling down.
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There is a loud clatter as a stack of circuit boards comes tumbling down.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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I walked on, following the windings of the splashing tumbling Mosedale Beck.
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Jack and Jill went up the hill, yes, and Jack fell down with Jill tumbling after also.
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Jones won the race fractionally to poke the ball well wide of goal, but then went tumbling .
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Several more items come tumbling or fluttering out over me ... A dentist's appointment card.
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The momentum often subsides, leading to a tumbling of the share price.
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The two guys near the bottom fell tumbling and Ember hit the first one hard on the neck.
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Whereupon, lo! the animals began coming over, tumbling and falling to their deaths.