Tumbling in example sentence

One animal no less hideous, which I encountered several times, was the enormous crab that Mr. Darwin observed, to which nature has given the instinct and requisite strength to eat coconuts; it scrambles up trees on the beach and sends the coconuts tumbling; they fracture in their fall and are opened by its powerful pincers.

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And one of the most famous statements he had in his speech was, "Let the shameful walls of exclusion finally come tumbling down."

You don't land on it, because these things are tumbling end over end.

This grain of sand is probably about three and a half or four billion years old, and it's never eroded away like the way we have sand on Earth erodes away because of water and tumbling, air, and so forth.

The color, the strange shape, the tumbling motion could all have other explanations.

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