Example Sentences

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Perez's early-season ambition of challenging team-mate Verstappen for the championship has collapsed as his season has imploded following a series of errors.

From BBC • Jul. 21, 2023

While Liverpool’s season has imploded, reaching the European semifinals is the latest sign of the recovery overseen by Zinedine Zidane at Madrid.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 14, 2021

It was only Liverpool’s second win in its last eight league games of a title defense that has imploded in the second half of the season.

From Washington Times • Mar. 15, 2021

Since then, the Horvaths’ marriage has imploded, after Tad came out of the closet and left Loreen for a man, an act that is at once necessary and yet comes across as selfish.

From Washington Post • Apr. 13, 2017

As his campaign has imploded, he has flailed harder and harder in search of some game-changing moment to keep him going.

From Salon • May 4, 2016