Example sentences for: toppled

How can you use “toppled” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In this election, gambling interests dropped $100 million on a single California ballot initiative, toppled governors in two states, and bought senators and representatives by the crate.

  • President Jamil Mahuad was toppled three days ago when Indian protestors, supported by military officers, stormed the congressional building.

  • South of the Roman Forum, a slope leads up to the Palatine Hill, Rome’s legendary birthplace and today a romantic garden, dotted with toppled columns among the wild flowers and spiny acanthus shrubs.

  • Seven years later, the opposition of radical forces toppled Primo de Rivera from power.

  • The NYT says why this is important: A similar discrepancy in May 1998 helped fuel protests that toppled the Suharto regime.


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