VERB
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turn from an upright or normal position
The canoe tumped over
The big vase overturned -
cause to overturn from an upright or normal position
the clumsy customer turned over the vase
The cat knocked over the flower vase
he tumped over his beer
How To Use tip over In A Sentence
- Certainly both the music and these performances have real rhythmic life and a good deal of energy, even if some passages are over-scored and tip over into brassy bombast.
- But equivocalness hangs in the air - we're waiting for it to tip over.
- The implication of rapidity that most often accompanies the use of careen as a verb of motion may have arisen naturally through the extension of the nautical sense of the verb to apply to the motion of automobiles, which generally careen, that is, lurch or tip over, only when driven at high speed. Word of the Day
- "You haven't shaved in a while, " she said, tracing her index fingertip over the stubble.
- But when does joyous, mantric reiteration tip over into something more sinister, or worse, monotonous?
- Three times Dudzinski made excellent saves to spare his side from further embarrassment, including one acrobatic tip over the bar.
- Add squid and tip over salad. Times, Sunday Times
- I tip over the stump holding the squirrel feeder and grab a sowbug, crushing it between my fingers. Grouse Diary Entry
- Although the ship started to tip over , she soon righted herself.
- The girl thrust the shampoo violently back onto its rack, causing the rest of the contents to tip over onto the floor of the shower with a heavy bang.