'fall' in a sentence
Learn how to use 'fall' with 20 example sentences.
- fall noun
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: the season when the leaves fall from the trees
: a sudden drop from an upright position
: a downward slope or bend
: a lapse into sin; a loss of innocence or of chastity
: a sudden decline in strength or number or importance
: a movement downward
: the act of surrendering (usually under agreed conditions)
: the time of day immediately following sunset
: when a wrestler's shoulders are forced to the mat
: a free and rapid descent by the force of gravity
: a sudden sharp decrease in some quantity
- fall verb
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: descend in free fall under the influence of gravity
: move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way
: pass suddenly and passively into a state of body or mind
: come under, be classified or included
: fall from clouds
: suffer defeat, failure, or ruin
: die, as in battle or in a hunt
: touch or seem as if touching visually or audibly
: be captured
: occur at a specified time or place
: decrease in size, extent, or range
: yield to temptation or sin
: lose office or power
: to be given by assignment or distribution
: move in a specified direction
: be due
: lose one's chastity
: to be given by right or inheritance
: come into the possession of
: fall to somebody by assignment or lot; passed
: be inherited by
: slope downward
: lose an upright position suddenly
: drop oneself to a lower or less erect position
: fall or flow in a certain way
: assume a disappointed or sad expression
: be cast down
: come out; issue
: be born, used chiefly of lambs
: begin vigorously
: go as if by falling
: come as if by falling