Example Sentences

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We’re trying to leave the architecture and aesthetics of the park, but also ensure they are crashworthy.

From Washington Post • Apr. 14, 2023

Cars became more crashworthy, and hence less lethal and injurious, as a result of tort litigation and federal regulation.

From Slate • Mar. 23, 2018

"Even with a Top Safety Pick, a small car isn't as crashworthy as a bigger one."

From Forbes • Jan. 17, 2011

But Nader contended that automakers should build "crashworthy" cars that would not cause bodily injury in a "second collision" after the accident itself.

From Time Magazine Archive

Surviving a Crash The same economic factors that can make planes somewhat less "airworthy" than they might otherwise be, also stand to make them somewhat less "crashworthy."

From Time Magazine Archive