Tumbling roll

Usage examples of somersault.

A somersaulting shape, the pygmy killer was tossed beyond the crumbling mass of stone and dirt that entombed a dozen helpless people within the Aureole Mine.

The shotgun somersaulted into the screaming wind as Van Dusen plowed into Bonhomme, knocking him from his feet.

Little Ivan, in cap and bells, somersaulted round the ring as if emancipated altogether from the bipedal posture until he bumped into Buffo somersaulting round the ring in the other direction.

The shock of water blasted Buffo back into one single form, blasted him off his feet, blasted him up into the air in the final somersault of his career, and then flattened him on his back.

He somersaulted, flipped, spotted Electro hovering just above him on a crackling arc of sheer energy.

He had time to glimpse a tiny boat with two petrified faces looking up, and beyond it the misty outline of the icebreaker, and dominating all a massive, ice-speckled black wave, a malign, living entity taller than the ship, and in the seconds while he somersaulted towards the Arctic water, Findhorn knew he was about to die.

In automatic chivalry he caught them with his extended left arm whilst holding her off the floor with his right, causing the pair of them to execute a strangely slow somersault and bounce apart on the soft floor.

The klezmer music somersaulted in the street, bumped up the stone wall, swan-dived into the canal.

The dwarves cartwheeled and somersaulted, lopping off first her ears, then her nose and finally her lips.

It occurred to me that the movement of the amputated knob perfectly schematized what it would look like for someone to try to turn somersaults with one hand nailed to the floor.

Gnashing my mandibles with glee, I followed him through with an extra-special reverse somersault with octal hitchkick.

Not even Rosalind, turning somersaults on the sonogram, had made Cynthia feel this vital, this necessary.

I thought she would kill herself, so much did she struggle, but the chain was solid, the bed heavy and, though at the end of this hurricane, frantic capers, somersaults and jerks fit to strangle her waist, the bed had landed all askew at the other end of the room, Sylva, for her part, found herself lying on the ground, exhausted and breathless as on the day of the hunt after the hounds had pursued her.

The men each held an end of a long bamboo pole that they were whipping and twanging up and down, while the girl used it very like a tightrope, and almost as skillfully as Autumn Auburn or Monday Simms, letting it toss her into leaps and flips and somersaults, but always landing again on the bamboo.

Al hung upside down, still seated on the unicycle, six feet in the air over the head of the catcher, motionless, sailing forward in a long somersault.