Example Sentences

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Historic heat waves have been crashing all around the world, with records getting shattered in Japan, broken on the eastern coast of Canada, smashed in California, and rewritten in the Upper Midwest.

From Slate • Aug. 23, 2018

It seems at times as if  the city’s historic research materials have been crashing at a procession of friends’ houses.

From Washington Post • Jun. 29, 2017

While in other years, the Falcons and Bucs game might have been written off as an anomaly, it was yet another example of how the NFL’s once-booming ratings have been crashing all season.

From The Guardian • Nov. 9, 2016

So many people have been using it that the servers have been crashing.

From BBC • Jul. 11, 2016

In the two weeks since the report was published, convicts have been crashing out at an embarrassing clip.

From Time Magazine Archive