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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of somersault.

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Examples

  • But it was the response to his Rivonia Trial speech, called throughout the world the I Am Prepared To Die Speech, which kind of somersaulted him and the African National Congress and the need to put an end to apartheid into the world consciousness.

    Remembering Nelson Mandela's Pivotal Moment 2008

  • Kahn apparently also discredited Mandela as a "self-confessed liar and hitman" who had first implicated three UDM members in the killing and then "somersaulted" and implicated the six ANC members.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2000

  • Even as I scuttled away, the cabayo plunged straight into the brush, lost its footing where the bank dropped off, and somersaulted onto its back amid a crackle of stems and branches.

    Fire The Sky W. Michael Gear 2011

  • She then had a third vivid dream, in which she somersaulted – fatally – from a horse.

    Amy Hardie: Yay! My dream didn't come true Erlend Clouston 2010

  • He was forty-eight, but he bent over the sack, applied a tentative, shifting grip that balanced it, and, with a quick heave, stood erect, the somersaulted sack of flour on his shoulder.

    THE TASTE OF THE MEAT 2010

  • In another video, an empty car somersaulted down a river in Bennington.

    Tropical Storm Irene: Irene Spares Big Cities, But Vermont Sees Huge Floods (LIVE UPDATES, VIDEO) 2011

  • Stout concrete walls were knocked down, cars and trucks were jammed into trees, furniture and personal possessions, instantly transformed into useless detritus, were somersaulted down the streets, and tons of mud and sand clogged many of the avenues and alleyways.

    Alamos: Still a boom to bust town, but with everlasting charm 2009

  • The hours pass upon the eastern turn my faith anew while I was interred there, until I somersaulted out of the deep waters.

    42 Mirrors Lucien Quincy Senna 2012

  • While the green car spun harmlessly to a halt, the red machine somersaulted up the sloping bank on the outside of the track, striking the wire fencing before falling back in a heap of disintegration.

    When motor racing was a matter of life and death | Richard Williams 2011

  • Even as I scuttled away, the cabayo plunged straight into the brush, lost its footing where the bank dropped off, and somersaulted onto its back amid a crackle of stems and branches.

    Fire The Sky W. Michael Gear 2011

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