COLLIDE in a Sentence
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14 example sentences for COLLIDE, such as:
1. She collided with the problem of lighting.
2. As the bus turned the corner, it collided with a van.
3. The coach careered down a slope and collided with a bank.
4. Last night a cargo ship collided with a tanker carrying crude oil.
5. The President has again collided with Congress over his budget plans.
2. As the bus turned the corner, it collided with a van.
3. The coach careered down a slope and collided with a bank.
4. Last night a cargo ship collided with a tanker carrying crude oil.
5. The President has again collided with Congress over his budget plans.
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Meanings and Examples of COLLIDE
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collide
v. cause to collide
v. be incompatible; be or come into conflict
Classic Sentence:
1 The last of the Horse Guards, a huge pockmarked fellow, frowned angrily on seeing Rostov before him, with whom he would inevitably collide.
2 Pulling on his cinnamon-coloured, bear-lined overcoat as he went, he had just stepped thoughtfully into the street when he collided with a gentleman dressed in a similar coat and an ear-lappeted fur cap.
3 On the bridge he collided with a Cossack who had fallen behind, but he galloped on.
4 She collided with the problem of lighting.
5 Several times it moves eastward and collides with a countermovement from the east westward.
Example Sentence:
1 Two small planes collide over Florida Everglades and crash into swamp, no survivors.
2 The President has again collided with Congress over his budget plans.
3 The coach careered down a slope and collided with a bank.
4 As the bus turned the corner, it collided with a van.
5 Last night a cargo ship collided with a tanker carrying crude oil.
6 The car veered onto the wrong side of the road and collided with an oncoming truck.
7 When the ships collided in the harbor, pandemonium broke out among the passengers.
8 In recent years, scientists have been more concerned with the earth colliding with comets and asteroids and comet Swift-Tuttle is big, about the same size as the asteroid that wiped out dinosaur sixty-five million years ago.
9 Scientists announced Thursday that the particle discovered through experiments at atom-smashing large hadron collider last summer is, in fact, the long-sought Higgs boson.