Then he collapsed face-first onto the arena floor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chainer's Torment]

McCain and his stooges walked face-first into this.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama Campaign: McCain Is Riding The "Low Road Express"] Reference

Moore landed face-first on the ice; Bertuzzi on top of him.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 10, 2004] Reference

He sank to his knees and fell face-first to the ground, sobbing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stone of Tears]

He hit the floor face-first, barely able to think, unable to move.    From Wordnik.com.  [Asimov's Science Fiction]

And she just smashed face-first into the ground, but she survived.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 13, 2005] Reference

Then the police pick him up and push him face-first to the platform.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ex-Cop Faces Trial In Racially Charged Murder Case] Reference

Then the darkness let him go, and he toppled face-first to the floor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chosen Of The Gods]

And second, they laughed at the shot of R2D2 falling over face-first.    From Wordnik.com.  [Raiders of the Lost Ark] Reference

She might have hit the tile floor face-first, but she didn't even care.    From Wordnik.com.  [Honeymoon]

The bank under my knee gave way, and I tumbled face-first into the pond.    From Wordnik.com.  [Question Quest]

Without using her hand, she dives face-first to lick the doughnut burger.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Iowa, Indiana State Fairs, Weird Foods Reign] Reference

Wireman plowed face-first into the sand and came up laughing and sneezing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Duma Key]

Audrey's knees buckled and she feel face-first into the leaf-covered grass.    From Wordnik.com.  [a larp dream] Reference

Stepping into a fax machine is like falling face-first into a swimming pool.    From Wordnik.com.  [Analog Science Fiction and Fact]

The man was falling face-first to the sidewalk, his hands limp at his sides.    From Wordnik.com.  [Consent to Kill]

Showalter passed out within seconds and fell face-first into 18 inches of mire.    From Wordnik.com.  [This Just In: Indiana to Pop Giant Crap Bubbles on Thursday] Reference

Matt jerked him off his feet and body-slammed him face-first against the lockers.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pull of the Moon]

He climbed the Cyclone fence and fell face-first into the snow on the other side.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blaze]

He pitched face-first to the ground, hitting with a grunt, sliding through the dirt.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pillars of Creation]

Bosch guessed that his nose had been broken when he'd gone face-first into the wall.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Darkness More Than Night]

Naomi Klein hates it when people jump off a tall bridge face-first onto jagged rocks.    From Wordnik.com.  [sirilyan Diary Entry] Reference

It's much worse getting back to the house -- he has to run face-first into the storm.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mother Of Storms]

I lost all of my form going off the jump and then nearly went face-first into a mogul.    From Wordnik.com.  [How Hard Can It Be?] Reference

The car spun him up into the air, then he came down again, face-first into the windshield.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ugly Americans]

The full force of Evan's makura na hiruma hit him, and he sprawled face-first onto the tatami.    From Wordnik.com.  [Black Blade]

He barely managed to avoid cutting himself with the knife as he landed face-first on the floor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Knight Of Ghosts And Shadows]

Her arms bound behind her, unable to break her fall, she smacked into the stone floor face-first.    From Wordnik.com.  [Temple of the Winds]

The next thing he knew he was being slammed face-first into a patch of extremely well-raked lawn.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Twisted Stories Vol II]

The brute went face-first into the ground and fought with the unyielding metal around its throat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chainer's Torment]

The pilot kicked the rudder, too late, and Gary Gruber ran face-first into the portside propeller.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fire and Ice]

The next thing he knew, he was being slammed face-first into a patch of extremely well-raked lawn.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine]

Junius came up face-first against a doorpost and knocked one of the severed heads out of its niche.    From Wordnik.com.  [Smart Dragons, Foolish Elves]

I managed to pull myself through and face-first into several inches of muck on the bottom of the pond.    From Wordnik.com.  [DearlyDevotedDexter]

I fall face-first into the rose bushes, their soft fragrance now sickly-sweet as thorns tear against my cheeks and forehead.    From Wordnik.com.  [A King of Infinite Space]