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Sentence Examples A surveyors' report revealed that the 18-year-old prefabricated building had dry rot and a collapsing floor. In April, Russia's atomic energy minister said the cement encasing is collapsing and urgently needs reinforcement. He should have allowed that the British Empire was made out of empty spaces or, in India, collapsing states. I am fairly certain that cold medication was developed for moms who need to make it through the day without collapsing into a box of tissues. To get to it, imagine removing two-thirds of the carbon atoms and then collapsing the metal lattice, albeit in a complex way. I was able to complete a few tumbling revolutions before collapsing into a skidding heap. The building was practically empty but the sounds of skate wheels collapsing against the polished hard wood floor still filled the rink. Cash is available as home repair assistance or as a renovation grant to repair dangerous electrical wires, collapsing ceilings and rising damp. This Greek Cypriot cheese is one of few that can stand up to the heat of a barbecue without collapsing. The US is on the ropes because investment is collapsing, profits are imploding and share prices cascading. This got wilder and wilder until, bit by bit, the entire drum set was collapsing onto the floor under the fury of this onslaught. He is equally good as the powerless schlemiel whose life is collapsing all around him, and who takes his power at the expense of his captive. I would have, if I wasn't so close to collapsing into giggling schoolgirl hysterics. But now a collapsing bubble transforms ballooning revenues into ballooning budget deficits. And it's easy to sympathise with that, after years of supposedly happy marriage suddenly collapsing around her. A pensioner had to be taken home in an ambulance after collapsing minutes after thieves stole his bank card and keys. The cause of her current angst came from the collapsing of her younger brother inside their home a mere three days ago. I roused myself for the fireworks, but soon I was collapsing with tiredness again. A heavy drinking session ended with one of a group of young friends collapsing in a spa bath after mixing drugs and alcohol, an inquest was told. The entire structure began falling inwards, collapsing in on itself like a cloth being folded. Show More Sentences The so-called port at Siem Reap is actually a huge shanty town where the jetty is literally collapsing into the water. Markets are collapsing and manufacturing is going down the tubes, but the people in the malls spend regardless. The snow was so thick, he was able to tunnel through it without it collapsing on him until he started clearing the hood. The late-night explosion blew debris on to a busy avenue, collapsing floors and starting a fire that burned for two hours. The ship sank, killing seven of the crew, and collapsing two pylons and 127 metres of bridge decking into water 110 feet deep. The rain blusters under the roof and I think I feel the bridge collapsing under me. Modern understandings of astrophysics allow three possible fates for such a collapsing star. This gives me hope for media bombast in general, that it can be scaled back without the whole house of cards collapsing. Scotland's water is now regarded as a new profit bonanza for the collapsing privatised English water companies. As drawing boards fill with plans for dams, navigation channels and irrigation projects, the fragile ecology is in danger of collapsing. And feel it I do, collapsing as the dream girl turns to face me, her visage hidden by the sun's golden glare. Shortly after collapsing into the voluptuous embrace of a velveteen sofa, your body may shut itself down and try to enter a coma. Sighing in defeat he dropped on the bed, collapsing, flopping onto the bed, spread eagle, arms and legs splayed everywhere. Which devastating calamity is to come our way, hyperinflation or collapsing deflation? The station-keeping drives are preventing the Curie from descending into a collapsing orbit. Giant avalanches, tidal waves, and many stock footage scenes of buildings collapsing result. Surface subsidence also causes safety concerns for the public because of roadway cave-ins or structures and buildings tilting or even collapsing. The legend tells of the herald Pheidippides delivering his momentous message of victory over the Persian army and then collapsing and dying. Their resources destroyed, their water supply devastated, their hospitals bombed, overstrained and collapsing. Her breath came in short pants as she stumbled backwards collapsing down onto the bed in a tousled heap. Show More Sentences Remember the women from Swansea who chucked in comfy jobs and bought a collapsing cottage? He spat out blood and let out a howl like a wolf that had just been shot by a hunter, before finally collapsing onto the ground. Raphael tried to pat down his wild hair before giving a loud sigh and collapsing into bed. The Soviet Union was collapsing and with it the certainties of the cold war and communist ideology. With little or no maintenance in a half-century, the structures are collapsing. We can be reminded of the horror and the technical horror of these great structures collapsing. Kavanagh was again on target on 33 minutes when Navan were penalised for collapsing a scrum after an extended period of Portlaoise pressure. With Realia, Aitken has taken on a daunting task, collapsing Greek myth, Japanese pop culture and a stream-of-consciousness rhythm into one book. Issuing a message to unionists, he also urged them against alienating nationalists by collapsing the devolved institutions. All in all, though, thanks for collapsing whole categories of moral and political thought. They swarm across the planet like locusts, stripping environments bare and collapsing fragile economies. Hundreds of male onlookers surged forward, collapsing the barriers all along the race track. Aging, childbirth and weight gain relax the muscles and the fascia encasing them, collapsing the rim of the aperture. In her installation, Kennedy re-examines this hierarchy by collapsing any clear definition between humans and their natural counterparts. After a textbook start, they took an early lead when Toulouse were penalised for collapsing the maul and Drahm kicked the subsequent penalty. King of skiffle Lonnie Donegan died after collapsing just hours before he was due to take the stage in York. People collapsing in a mid-summer heat wave isn't so rare, so here are some tips for people as they head to the crazy fun of the parade. Naturally, this is exactly the time of the year when one comes across people collapsing owing to heat strokes. He rescued more injured comrades and extinguished the fire before collapsing from exhaustion. Three days later, Shuttlesworth rose from bed, where he had remained since collapsing from exhaustion at the Gaston Motel press conference. Show More Sentences Even though the currency was collapsing and the poverty was bad, you could see the history and beauty in it. The new building certainly looks extraordinary, collapsing in on itself, in folds and twists which defy the eye. This 110-storey monument to everything proud and American imploded, collapsing in on itself in a rising mountain of dust. It was the movement of a small, fat, middle aged woman with a scarlet complexion, piggy eyes and a collapsing perm. It is as if the two spaces were collapsing around a single hinge, as if space has been infolded. I responded by giving him the finger, before collapsing on my bed once more and drawing the blankets on top of me. The large size of the animals required both internal and external supports to prevent them from collapsing in the kiln during firing. The salmon industry is also contending with the permanent problem of sea lice in fish farms, and a collapsing stock of wild fish. Notice the collapsing contractile vacuole in the lower middle of the frame. The Bramley discipline was in danger of completely collapsing at this stage which led to Cooke converting two penalties for foul play. The US Army was collapsing, drug use exploding, combat refusals rife, fragging common. Then you notice, down at the bottom and off to the side, a fragment of a temporary wooden fence, broken and collapsing. What impression can voters have of a party that is fragmenting and apparently collapsing? It's a frantic, frenzied melee, something I imagine a planet collapsing in on itself might sound like. As a result, Einstein was accused of inserting a fudge factor to keep the universe from collapsing. And an entertainer from Tring throwing custard pies from the window of his collapsing car. I heard the sounds not as an ascension toward serenity but as a Dantean descent straight to the center of my own collapsing world. Once home, Charlie's connection to family prevents him from collapsing in racial self-hatred when he is unable to find work. I was collapsing numerous times each day and later, very much later, of course, I was diagnosed with profuse bleeding in my stomach. His nose had been broken so often that it was in danger of collapsing, leaving him with the pug nose of a boxer. Show More Sentences The men were prepared to purge their contempt of court simultaneously with Shell collapsing its injunction against them. He turned to see Ned staggering, and then collapsing on to the floor, his face ghostly grey with beads of sweat across his forehead. The Ottoman empire was collapsing, and lands taken from them would be divided up among the victorious powers. Russia's collapsing birth rate feeds fears that Siberia's emptiness will be infiltrated from the teeming nations to the south. Finally breathing, he took a big gulp of fresh air and shrank to the ground, collapsing to his hands and knees. She literally had to clutch the door frame to keep herself from collapsing. Now, if Death is a collapsing of Time, then the Soul may move into a suspended state of eternity, seeing all time at once. Second, if the countermine was driven below the mine, the counterminers could spring the end of their gallery, thereby collapsing the mine above. The king bravely managed to regain his balance whilst in the saddle and nobly dismounted on his own account before later collapsing. Dozens more were at risk of collapsing as heavy rains continued across the area, authorities said. The economy is collapsing, because of international policies, which are rapacious and stupid. It got off to a shaky start, what with wobbly bridges and collapsing domes. When people think of building demolition, they almost invariably conjure up visions of spectacular implosions with large buildings collapsing in seconds. Some of these stories seem to be collapsing out of sheer improbability. Greenspan may even believe this, and has thus embarked on yet another round of extreme accommodation to lessen the economic impact collapsing tech stocks. It was the only learning institution offering co-education in the district and if measures to save it from collapsing failed, most children would suffer. The man, in a veined body stocking, is a helpless victim, thrashing, lolling and collapsing like a mad puppet on twisted strings, to musical pings and wheezes. The loosened earth and weakened banks are more prone to collapsing then. The collapsing Soviet Union was in no condition to dissuade its ally. The 76-year-old from Southend Road, Wickford, was tricked into believing his roof was riddled with woodworm and in danger of collapsing without major repair work. Show More Sentences It came too late for some, of course, as almost simultaneously we saw the sclerotic auto companies collapsing before us. It is not exactly disastrous but with bonus payments collapsing over the last three years in line with falling stock markets, so has demand for these products. I'm not an engineer, I don't have a total grasp of airflow, but if a building is collapsing it creates a tremendous pressure below, pressing the air out. The final signature of bubble fusion is the coincidence between the sonoluminescent light flashes from collapsing bubbles and the neutron emission. Analyzing the ebb and flow of the race, Howie said Weiland has positive momentum but Rounds is collapsing. It threatens subjectivity by collapsing meaning, reminding us of the subject's necessary relation to death, corporeality, animality and maternal materiality. And then she turned to her friend, who seemed on the verge of collapsing. A lot of the buildings were damaged or were on the verge of collapsing. There, sandwiched between a hairdresser and a mobile phone shop, is the long-abandoned Irish Alamo, with its roof collapsing and its walls falling in. Then, as the judge delivered his pronouncement, in an Italian I could not understand, I watched her collapsing forward. The new paper models the hawking radiation for a collapsing star before it makes a black hole. In one slaughterhouse sample of 150 horses, 40 percent needed more than one shot, sometimes collapsing only to rise again. A train was just pulling in and I lurched on board, collapsing onto a seat opposite a rather startled man who, bless him, dug into his pocket for a paper tissue. Starved of ale there were grumblings of mutiny from the crew but we had to make do with a few beers and some boxed wine before collapsing into our bunks. It is improbable that a timetable for decommissioning would be enough to prevent him from resigning as First Minister and collapsing the executive. The tower was minutes from collapsing when he uttered the final words of somebody who was a rescuer to the very end. We discover his alcoholism, his egocentricity, his collapsing marriage. The tube was to be inserted so it could suction out the blood and air packed in the chest and prevent the lung from collapsing. Pennsylvania is purple personified, and Republican Gov. Tom Corbett is collapsing in the Keystone State. The background is the super-exposed town of Shishmaref in Western Alaska, where global warming and the thawing permafrost are collapsing towns in on themselves. Show More Sentences Jenssen's placement of thin, spiderweblike shapes beneath heavier bodies of color gives these works a top-heavy feel, as if they risk collapsing beneath their own weight. The sexually repressive and sexually unequal patriarchies seem to be collapsing demographically just as fast as the sexually liberal and equal societies. Tom steps out of the doorway and falls 7 feet, collapsing onto rails. In fact, the last time he was in London we had a memorable night out on the town, with him finally collapsing on my couch in Soho after we got in from a nightclub at 6am. The skiffle star died last week midway through a UK tour after collapsing at the home of friends in Peterborough, where the service took place yesterday. The litany of contemporary change includes global warming, ozone loss, soil erosion, deforestation, desertification, collapsing fisheries, and disappearing aquifers. Standard Asian persimmons must be almost collapsing with overripeness to be sweet enough to eat, but the sharon fruit is luscious and yielding even before being fully ripe. Instead of collapsing on top of them, the walls had fallen together in a triangular structure and were supporting several large boulders that had been the roof of the cave. In neat testimony to the process, in academic publishing, history has been collapsing into memory, memory into trauma, and trauma into studies of silence and forgetfulness. Despite its timely rescue, the pilot said the service was in danger of collapsing because support was lacking from the professional crayfishing industry. A FELL runner died yesterday after collapsing during an international race on Snowdon. The church required rebuilding after collapsing in March 1836 when Estanilslao Marquez was the pastor. Octuplets woman Mandy Allwood was in hospital yesterday after collapsing with stomach pains. National Laboratory, one of several sonoluminescence specialists who have theorized that fusion in collapsing bubbles is feasible. However, the collapsing Ottoman economy could not sustain the fleet's strength for too long. The Berlin Wall's fall and internet's rise inform new readings of America as much as the collapsing Twin Towers and Latinization of Usonia. Brown dwarfs start their lives like stars, as collapsing balls of gas, but they lack the mass to burn nuclear fuel and radiate starlight. After collapsing at a House of Lords dinner, Thatcher was admitted to St Thomas' Hospital in central London on 7 March 2008 for tests. These defensive mines anticipated modern antivehicular mines, albeit by collapsing rather than exploding. In either case the star's temperature is no longer high enough to prevent it from collapsing under its own weight. Show More Sentences Other acts in the star-studded London show included teen popster BILLIE who performed for the first time since collapsing in a bar two weeks ago. Say When is never in need of dizzying hand-held camerawork, gun battles or collapsing cities to make an impression. But is the trust within the game so bad that Houston coach Tom Penders was given a technical foul for collapsing on the sideline? Initiates were menaced by fake branding irons, electrocuted by teeter-totters, ambushed by collapsing chairs. Andrew Stillion, 49, from Bradford, West Yorkshire, died after collapsing on a boat heading for the Farne Islands on Sunday morning. Radio waves detected from the inner cloud were slightly shifted away from their expected values, indicating the cloud is collapsing. The risk of ankle injury is high due to collapsing mole runs underfoot and memorials are being undermined, creating potential hazards. Through the collapsing of the three dances, all these things ricochet against each other to create a new syncretic culture. The official said there were unconfirmed reports that the man had been working in rice paddies before collapsing. Hazards in high water conditions can include floating trees, collapsing portions of river bank, overhanging branches and even dead farm animals. The foothills opposite are covered in collapsing terraces that peter out as the hillsides steepen. The species has been overfished, and its fishery may now be in danger of collapsing. Few of Cromwell's coins entered circulation with Cromwell himself dying in 1658 and the Commonwealth collapsing two year later. A JUDGE in Cardiff has called for medical reports on a defendant who keeps collapsing on his way to court. Deaths attributed to being caught in collapsing materials during that period predominantly resulted from grain engulfments. Immediately afterwards, she blew up with a terrific explosion, the masts collapsing inwards and the smoke hiding everything. The EP had a excellent habit of developing bright pop before collapsing into a wonderful head rush of rolling fields and lost balmy days. Significant wild fisheries have collapsed or are in danger of collapsing, due to overfishing and pollution. Nearly 1.8 million reads were removed during the prealignment steps of linker removal, QC and collapsing reads. This stored collapsing magnetic field energy can be captured. Show More Sentences And they had wildlife tourists in gales of laughter with their tipsy antics as they lolloped about and nuzzled each other before collapsing in a heap. Lee Thompson, 26, was told his kidneys were collapsing after the Australian Common Death Adder bit his thumb as he returned it to its box at the reptile shop where he works. By the end of that same year, share prices were collapsing, as it became clear that expectations of imminent wealth from the Americas were overblown. A mine leading to the wall would be dug and once the target had been reached, the wooden supports preventing the tunnel from collapsing would be burned. Common offences include tackling above the shoulders, collapsing a scrum, ruck or maul, not releasing the ball when on the ground, or being offside. After collapsing in his corner after the fight had finished, McClellan was rushed to hospital where it was discovered he had developed a blood clot on the brain. In The City of God against the Pagans, Augustine builds a vision of an eternal, spiritual Rome, a new imperium sine fine that will outlast the collapsing Empire. William FitzHerbert, nephew of King Stephen, found his position undermined by the collapsing political fortune of Stephen in the north of England, and was deposed by the Pope. Aharonov and others are exploring the possibility that there could be nondemolition measurements that could extract information from a quantum state without collapsing it. In 1969, he was hospitalized after collapsing on a New York City street. After having been freed, James was able to regain power by buying off members of Albany's government, such that by December 1482 Albany's government was collapsing. A notch was cut deep into the rim of the lake, which managed to reduce the water level by 20 metres, before collapsing and killing many of the labourers. Thawing of permafrost would affect the bears who traditionally den underground, and warm winters could result in den roofs collapsing or having reduced insulative value. In a world where marine ecosystems and fish stocks are generally collapsing, the Arafura Sea stands out as among the richest marine fisheries in the world. Wrought iron square bars, called cross binders, are run through the roof of the furnace and bolted to the cast iron plates to keep the roof from collapsing. Additionally, there are three dedicated calcar support screws intended to prevent the humerus from collapsing medially as well as more screw options in the humeral head. The flamboyant jazzman continued to perform even after collapsing on stage during a concert with his band Digby Fairweather's Half Dozen in January. There has recently been much hype about cyberterrorists and fear of the internet collapsing through their activities but SME owners should avoid complacency. Examples from Classical Literature Only the weight of the lumps of metal dangling in his coattail pocket kept him from collapsing. Then the pump of the compensator caused the engine to stop, and the machine, partially collapsing, fell to the ground. Chimney stack repairs are expensive but if you ignore them, stacks have a nasty habit of collapsing when you least expect it. The rotundity of the covering, which was now but little inflated, was collapsing already. The walls were all on fire and the back wall had fallen in, the wooden roof was collapsing, and the rafters were alight. Sheldon had gritted his teeth, pulled his collapsing soul together, and taken Berande plantation into his fist once more. The professor seemed to shrink back in his chair, collapsing like an automobile tire when the air is let out. Witnesses said the injured man then walked along Dixon Street before collapsing outside Dovecot Street corner shop. The ghostlike estate is deteriorating badly in many parts, with staircases collapsing and dozens of properties lying empty. Their sides were revetted, or held from collapsing, by strong wickerwork. The breath was leaving his lungs and his chest was collapsing under my weight. I was just in time to seize the wheel while Frenchy who had followed me caught up the collapsing Gambril. The French president spent a night in hospital last week after collapsing on a jog and is convalescing with Carla, 41, in the South of France. For a moment the conspiracy was upon the point of collapsing. After nearly twenty-five years of living in the United States, Raj decides to take a sabbatical, to escape his collapsing marriage, and returns to India. But after becoming embroiled in the row between her foghorn daughters Bianca and Sonia and collapsing, a nurse at the hospital reveals that Carol's suffering an infection. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of collapsing? Words that rhyme with collapsing What is the adjective for collapsing? What is the noun for collapsing? Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words collapsible collapsibility collapses collapsed collapse collapsar collar Collar collarbone collar-bone collarbones collard 10-letter Words Starting With c co col coll colla collap collaps collapsi collapsin