Example Sentences

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"These highest-energy cosmic rays are thought to come from extreme astrophysical sources, like two neutron stars colliding or a massive star collapsing," Murase said.

From Science Daily • Jun. 9, 2026

"We saw walls collapsing, the floors opening up. And then water and mud began spurting up from underneath the flooring."

From Barron's • Jun. 9, 2026

Known to posterity as “Stobaeus,” he lived in a time of turbulence, when “the Roman Empire was collapsing in the West but holding up better in the Greek-speaking East.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026

Shadow home secretary Chris Philp said more than 73,000 migrants had crossed the Channel since Labour came to power and the apparatus to remove those with no right to stay was collapsing.

From BBC • Jun. 5, 2026

Every crew that crossed her tolt the company over and over that it was ’bout three years overdue from collapsing, but them folk in Charlotte didn’t care.

From "The Journey of Little Charlie" by Christopher Paul Curtis