Example Sentences

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It is believed that many simple mud brick, stone and timber homes in mountain villages will have collapsed, but the scale of devastation in remote areas will take some time to assess.

From BBC • Sep. 9, 2023

I find myself hoping that, in the five years until my oldest enters ninth grade, the structure of academic competition that they’re fighting about in Princeton will have collapsed everywhere.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 28, 2016

The entire student body will likely have to stay after school because they will have collapsed in hysterics at this lecture.

From Slate • Sep. 22, 2015

The foreclosure rate rose in December to the highest since June 2010, while house prices slumped an annual 8.5 percent in November and will have collapsed 25 percent by 2013, the government-backed Economic Council estimates.

From BusinessWeek • Feb. 13, 2012

World trade and national governments will have collapsed.

From Time Magazine Archive