Example Sentences

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After the race, Verstappen’s father told The Daily Mail the team will implode if Horner is not removed from his position.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 5, 2024

If their explosive secret is discovered, their lives of luxury will implode.

From Washington Post • Feb. 25, 2020

“If we do not do so,” he warned, “this problem that has stayed with us as a nation for hundreds of years … will implode in our hands.”

From Washington Times • Mar. 14, 2018

I worry she will implode if she doesn’t take some healthy distance from him.

From Slate • Jan. 13, 2015

And then he and the guys will be pissed, and it will be this whole big thing, and our whole friend group will implode.

From "Leah on the Offbeat" by Becky Albertalli