COLLISION in a Sentence

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22 example sentences for COLLISION, such as:

1. At Borodino a collision took place.
2. His car was in collision with a motorbike.
3. Life is a series of collisions with the future.
4. The pilot avoided a collision by changing course.
5. The two communities are now on a collision course.

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 Meanings and Examples of COLLISION
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
collision
 n.  crash; conflict of opposed ideas or attitudes or goals
Classic Sentence:
1  Tickler was a wax-ended piece of cane, worn smooth by collision with my tickled frame.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter II
2  But it is not necessary,' said Miss Murdstone, 'that these opinions should come into collision here.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 26. I FALL INTO CAPTIVITY
3  The simple circumstance of being left alone with her husband and Mr. Bounderby, was sufficient to stun this admirable lady again without collision between herself and any other fact.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV
4  Eustacia's face burnt crimson at the unexpected collision of incidents, and filled it with an animation that it too frequently lacked.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: 4 Rough Coercion Is Employed
5  The Russian army and people avoided a collision till Smolensk was reached, and again from Smolensk to Borodino.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER II
6  At Borodino a collision took place.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER II
7  But he said, in substance, to himself that if the earth and the moon were about to clash, many persons would doubtless plan to get upon the roofs to witness the collision.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
8  Indeed, we pressed the matter so far that we almost came into collision, for she asked us if we were or were not prepared to carry out her wishes.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
9  Let us, then, impute to the fatality of things alone these formidable collisions.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—CRACKS BENEATH THE FOUNDATION
10  Not a spark of certainty and truth had been emitted even in the most terrible of collisions.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE LARK'S MEADOW
11  This repression was not effected without some commotion, and without that tumultuous uproar peculiar to collisions between the army and the people.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIII—PASSING GLEAMS
Example Sentence:
1  The collision between reality and faith to our young black and blue.
2  His car was in collision with a motorbike.
3  The pilot avoided a collision by changing course.
4  The two communities are now on a collision course.
5  The school bus was involved in a collision with a truck.
6  Stewart was injured in a collision with another player.
7  The collision of the particles resulted in an exchange of energy and a change of direction.
8  For a similar reason, a collision head-on between two cars in motion is much more violent than if one of them is at rest.
9  He received a depressed skull fracture and a brain laceration from the collision.
10  The Pentagon won't yet say how the USS John S. McCain was rammed by an oil tanker near Singapore, but an information warfare specialist in the Navy doubts the collision stoke cyber threat fears that GPS systems can be spoofed by hackers.
11  Life is a series of collisions with the future.