Example Sentences

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Helen Jose, a 21-year-old medical student from India, has been crashing at her friend's for a month after her rent doubled over the summer break.

From Reuters • Nov. 5, 2022

As Bloomberg reporter Jason Schreier notes on Twitter, his game has been crashing repeatedly since installing the update, although it’s unclear which platform he’s playing on.

From The Verge • Mar. 2, 2022

She has been crashing with a wrestling coach in Auckland to save money and can’t afford a $6,500 return flight, let alone an additional $2,000 for hotel quarantine.

From Washington Post • Oct. 1, 2021

In New York to talk up her collaboration with Marc Jacobs — a first for the Tokyo resident — she has been crashing on her father’s couch for a few nights.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 11, 2018

The Bombay mail arrived last night, and you know the way everything has been crashing there through speculations in Back Bay shares, cotton, &c.

From Piccadilly A Fragment of Contemporary Biography by Oliphant, Laurence