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Definition of fall through:

  • (verb) fail utterly; collapse;

Sentence Examples:

There was a pause, then so long that she had a sense of falling through its space.

The possibility, considered, roused a sensation of falling through infinity.

The holes however, were not large enough for the children to fall through.

"Look out that you don't fall through somewhere, and break a leg," cautioned Tom.

Can you picture us falling through that hole to the very bottom?

"The first thing he knows, he'll fall through a crack in the ice," thought she.

I didn't quite fall through the gate backwards.

She seemed to be yet falling, falling through emptiness to annihilation.

They will then fall through the pipe into the water and be drowned.

They were like sand falling through her fingers.

This matter will fall through at most for the day.

It never occurred to me that my plans might fall through.

If this should fall through, dear, you must write to your Aunt Vic.

Just now the moonlight was falling through the round window straight on to Heidi's bed.

If this thing falls through his honors will fall with it.

Let that fall through, and the lovers were free to marry.

We shall fall through if we are not careful, and get that chill you were talking about.

They are so heavy that their feet will fall through.

The coffee is then pressed with the hand, and falls through the frame into a basket.

As the pipe had an elbow in it, there was no danger of rain or dirt falling through it.

Q is the weight of water falling through the turbine per minute.

As the material falls through the machine, separation takes place.

He smiled slowly; slowly let the strand fall through his fingers.

She covers her face with her hands, and tears fall through her fingers.

They were soon falling through the boundless regions of space with inconceivable rapidity!

I watch it falling through the fog from my favorite window.

I love to let them fall through my fingers, to pour them from one hand to another.

Or did the sky open to let you fall through?

I think she must have bumped her head in falling through the tree.

Only the beams held the horses from falling through to the water, a few feet below.

You girls are fortunate that you didn't fall through the bridge.

He was afraid that he would fall through into the water or onto the cruel rocks below.

In returning home we had glimpses of the falls through the trees.

What if the world should start to falling through space?

These people, however, fall through sheer ignorance into a confusion of thought.

She feared she was going to fall through the floor.

"These stone floors are too thick for anyone to fall through."

The coast must be kept clear, or the scheme falls through.

More of this white stuff was falling through the air.

The timbers are as rotten as a pear, and the nails fall through them.

A square of light lay on the floor, the sunlight falling through a cut in the rocky roof.

Then they would all fall, fall through the everlasting lapse of space.

On we went, every instant dreading a fall through the thin crust.

And this time he stuffed a dish-rag in the crack, so no more pennies would fall through.

I am afraid it is a foolish affair; but it may fall through yet.

"We must, then, part, and the negotiation must fall through."

"It sounds like someone falling through a window!"

In this free world step by step I can rise or fall through suffering and choosing.

Your bit will fall through that horse's mouth.

There was a falling through all space and through all time.

Terminal velocity for a human body falling through air is about one hundred twenty m.p.h.

There it is dumped upon a screen of iron bars, which lets the fine salt fall through.

And then she saw that tears were falling through his trembling fingers.

Below him there were two hundred feet of fall through the steel-pipe maze of scaffolds.

Watch the brown gas fall through the air; note how it spreads in all directions.

Jeff took it, but presently let the limp fingers fall through his own.

For instance, that a piece of iron that falls through a spiral should become magnetic.

It was the sound of leaves falling through the darkness.

If it were not for the fan, the cotton seed, rocks, nails, and all would fall through.

Why, in the name of all the saints, do not alliances fall through for less?

Therefore, if the counting is correct, there is a dead heat and the wager falls through.

"If I did so," he objected, "the Marshal's plan would fall through!"

Did man but know it, no event falls through memory's net.

He leaned forward in danger of falling through the window.

We didn't let that fall through.

He was distinctly conscious of having seen it fall through the air, close to his feet.

The cotton covering of the cart became soaked, and drops of water began to fall through.

He was so ashamed that he felt he would like to fall through the floor.

I slip the paper in the slit and poke till it falls through on the other side of the door.

Was everything going to fall through at the last moment?

As it crossed the bar of light falling through the door, a shot cracked among the rocks.

Raising his eyes, he saw the sky through the hole he had made in falling through.

It is as well to keep a margin in reserve in case the performance should fall through.

The commonest race memory we have is the falling-through-space dream.

Without a spokesman, the plan could fall through completely.

It can be postponed once or twice on other pretexts, then fall through.

What a horrible disappointment if the whole thing falls through.

I could see the pattern of the sunlight falling through the trees upon the grass.

He felt himself falling through endless miles of space.

"I heard them falling through the rooms, the light step and the heavy step."

It will be much to be regretted if this scheme fall through for want of funds.

Count Erwin is certainly a good match; still, the affair may yet fall through.

I understand that you were responsible for that sale falling through.

It would fall through space, pulled by the power beam generated from this front.

We are a separate body in space, falling through space toward the Sun.

Tim, who was a white man, said, "and he was afraid it would fall through."

The twilight is gone, and the moon falls through the window over the bed.

He is the super-type who usually falls through the errors of other men.

It was so loose and open that the eggs ought to fall through into the water.

And so we remained till the red of the dawn to fall through the snow-gloom.

Unless a purchaser could be found for this, the bargain was to fall through.

If you don't, you might strike a hollow place and fall through the crust.

He hardly ever falls through it.

If anything should happen to fall through, we, surely, are not to blame.

He shrieked aloud at the fear of falling through into the room below.

"I don't see why it should," she persisted, "if the case falls through."

I dare not thus fall through the world for him.

What becomes of it if the thing falls through?

The greenish-blue eggs or the naked babies must certainly fall through, one would think.

Should it fall through, there would be only another bitter disappointment for her.