collapse
Example Sentences
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West Indies collapsed after tea Monday to lose by 323 runs to New Zealand on the fifth day of the third Test at Mount Maunganui, sealing a 2-0 series win for the hosts.
From Barron's
The economy didn’t collapse, but neither did a manufacturing renaissance appear on demand.
"If a rapid collapse were to occur, the material would fall directly into the fjord, and that could generate a tsunami with potentially high wave heights," she added.
From Science Daily
Ben Duckett – 2 – Arrived with a reputation as one of the best openers in the world, only to suffer a collapse in form and presence.
From BBC
“It would be the collapse of the Cuban economy, no question about it,” said Jorge Piñón, a Cuban exile who tracks the island’s energy ties to Venezuela at the University of Texas at Austin.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
