Tumbling has 2 syllables and the stress is on the first syllable.
| # | Sentence | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | He came tumbling after. | |
| 2. | He came tumbling down the hill. | |
| 3. | The shelf fell off and all the books went tumbling down on Vasya. | |
| 4. | The earth is sited in an energy gradient as on a hillside, with golden nuggets tumbling continually from above. | |
| 5. | One morning, as the fox cub was making to leave the den, she suddenly called out "Ah!" and ran tripping and tumbling back to her mother, a paw pressed over one eye. "Mommy, something's got into my eye! Get it out, get it out!" | |
| 6. | Sami's car was tumbling while he was still inside. | |
| 7. | To such vain quest he cared not to reply, / but, heaving from his breast a deep-drawn sigh, / "Fly, Goddess-born! and get thee from the fire! / The foes", he said, "are on the ramparts. Fly! / All Troy is tumbling from her topmost spire. / No more can Priam's land, nor Priam's self require." | |
| 8. | Heading home from the bar, Uncle George took that hairpin bend a little too fast, his car tumbling down the hillside and somersaulting into the river. | |
| 9. | I feel like I'm improving, and then I get criticism and my self-confidence comes tumbling back down. |