tip over
phrasal verb
tipped over; tipping over; tips over
: to fall over or to cause (something) to fall over
The glass nearly tipped over.
He accidentally tipped the lamp over and broke it.
Examples of tip over in a Sentence
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Back at the Webber Cemetery, beneath the border wall, Ms. Bravo tidies flowers that tipped over in the wind.
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Sarah Matusek, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 June 2024
Farage has had a milkshake tipped over his head and objects thrown at his open-top campaign bus in the past two weeks.
—Rob Picheta, CNN, 16 June 2024
Amazon had to fork over more than $61.7 million to settle Federal Trade Commission (FTC) charges after the agency found the company short changed Flex drivers in tips over a two-and-a-half year period.
—Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 13 June 2024
This unspoken code keeps the game from tipping over into violence.
—Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 13 June 2024
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Sarah Matusek, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 June 2024
Farage has had a milkshake tipped over his head and objects thrown at his open-top campaign bus in the past two weeks.
—Rob Picheta, CNN, 16 June 2024
Amazon had to fork over more than $61.7 million to settle Federal Trade Commission (FTC) charges after the agency found the company short changed Flex drivers in tips over a two-and-a-half year period.
—Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 13 June 2024
This unspoken code keeps the game from tipping over into violence.
—Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 13 June 2024
See all Example Sentences for tip over
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“Tip over.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tip%20over. Accessed 7 Jul. 2024.
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