Topple

//ˈtɑpl̩//

"Topple" in a Sentence (15 examples)

Those books look as if they're going to topple over any minute.

The giraffe cannot swim because its centre of gravity is so high that it would topple over.

We'll topple this dictatorship.

To become free and peaceful, humanity needs to topple all the barriers between humans.

The protests of 2011 threatened to topple the entire Moroccan monarchy.

The people are determined to topple the regime at any cost.

It's easier to topple communism in some countries than it is in some people's heads.

How do we topple borders?

The jenga tower was threatening to topple after I took a block out.

The massed crowds toppled the statue of the former dictator.

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to topple one's rival

Barla Von: Most people think I deal in finances, but my real currency is knowledge. I trade information and it has made me very wealthy. Barla Von: But the Shadow Broker is the true master. Every day, he buys and sells secrets that could topple governments, always giving them to the highest bidder.

He now confronts the daunting endeavor of toppling a former president whose belligerence and loyal base of support have discouraged most leading Republicans — including, up to now, Mr. DeSantis — from making frontal attacks against him.

The pile of pennies began to topple.

[…] yonder cloud That rises upward always higher, ⁠And onward drags a labouring breast, ⁠And topples round the dreary west, A looming bastion fringed with fire.

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