collapse

Example Sentences

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It should carry a thick streusel crown and a deep ribbon of cinnamon without collapsing under their weight.

From Salon

The illusion awakens him to a new means of looking at “nature and culture, the given and the constructed,” wherein these supposed binaries collapse together and exist simultaneously.

From The Wall Street Journal

"But it's not to precipitate a full-blown societal or humanitarian collapse."

From Barron's

Early evidence points to cavitation -- a process where tiny vapor bubbles form and collapse rapidly, generating shockwaves within the liquid -- as a possible explanation.

From Science Daily

Their raft bumped against the shore and Gingersnipes collapsed with a dramatic flourish.

From Literature