How to Use collide in a Sentence

collide

verb

• Two football players collided on the field.
• The events of the night force their two lives to collide, reopening old wounds.
  — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Mar. 2022
• Pricing would be based on the threat that a particular piece of orbital debris may collide with another object.
  — Khari Johnson, Wired, 15 Mar. 2022
• Every year, the Earth passes through the debris trails, allowing the debris to collide with the atmosphere.
  — Julia Musto, Fox News, 17 Mar. 2022
• Tuesday shower odds are at 50% this afternoon as coastal air from both the east and west are predicted to collide inland in the late afternoon.
  — Joe Mario Pedersen, orlandosentinel.com, 8 Mar. 2022
• The painting’s numerous figures, as if suspended, begin to collide, freefall, tumble and topple, as if abandoned, midair, by a juggler.
  — Lance Esplund, WSJ, 5 Mar. 2022
• Privacy advocates have been in a state of high alarm about the colliding political and technological trend lines.
  — Ronan Farrow, The New Yorker, 20 Nov. 2024
• Dunning was skating away from the puck when Avalanche defenseman Josh Manson collided with him in the first period.
  — Ryan Gaydos, Fox News, 19 Nov. 2024
• November gales caused by colliding air masses Weather is unpredictable in the fall in the Great Lakes region.
  — Caitlin Looby, Journal Sentinel, 25 Nov. 2024
• Investigators believe a 46-year-old man driving the pickup truck sparked the crash by colliding into a vehicle in front of him.
  — Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 21 Nov. 2024
• During the fusion process, fuel particles gradually drift away from the hot, dense core and eventually collide with the inner wall of the fusion vessel.
  — David Donovan, The Conversation, 4 Apr. 2022
• Although posts raising money for militias would appear to violate Facebook’s terms of service, the bulk of Choe’s complaints collide with a murky area of the law.
  — Washington Post, 10 Mar. 2022
• Those two objectives will collide Tuesday inside Footprint Center.
  — Duane Rankin, The Arizona Republic, 3 Apr. 2022
• About 11 million years ago, an asteroid collided with Mars, sending plumes of debris beyond the planet’s atmosphere.
  — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 14 Nov. 2024
• Blankenship appeared to injure his arm after colliding with Slay during Kyren Williams' 27-yard run early in the first quarter.
  — Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 25 Nov. 2024
• By the time the fog had parted, the ships were set to collide.
  — Zoe Sottile, CNN, 31 Mar. 2024
• The Avengers, the Eternals, and the X-Men are set to collide this summer.
  — Christian Holub, EW.com, 29 June 2022
• The man driving the boat could not avoid the crash, leading the boat and jet ski to collide.
  — Taylor Ardrey, USA TODAY, 21 June 2024
• In the big picture, a lot of forces will collide at the 8:20 p.m. kickoff.
  — Chris Perkins, Sun Sentinel, 22 Oct. 2022
• Their paths will soon collide on an island off the coast of Maine.
  — New York Times, 10 Aug. 2023
• And that’s when those worlds can collide in a very bad manner.
  — Paolo Confino, Fortune, 26 Oct. 2022
• As a result, the front of the sedan collided with the left side of the tractor trailer, FHP said.
  — Elainie Barraza, Orlando Sentinel, 13 July 2024
• Laine and the Hyundai driver collided in the eastbound lanes.
  — Angie Dimichele, Sun Sentinel, 16 Aug. 2023
• That’s also when peak heating and the sea breeze will collide.
  — Richard Tribou, Orlando Sentinel, 27 May 2022
• The truck traveled off the roadway, causing the right side of the vehicle to collide with a tree.
  — Elainie Barraza, Orlando Sentinel, 22 June 2024
• The chase ended near 82nd and Burleigh streets, police said, where the truck collided with a squad car.
  — Adrienne Davis, Journal Sentinel, 6 May 2024
• The pole the driver collided with was owned by Salt River Project.
  — Rey Covarrubias Jr., The Arizona Republic, 17 May 2024
• The 26-year-old overturned and collided with a traffic sign and was pronounced dead at the scene, FHP said.
  — Natalia Jaramillo, Orlando Sentinel, 12 Mar. 2023
• The gentle sound of this wind chime comes from the glass colliding whenever there is a strong breeze.
  — Nor'adila Hepburn, Southern Living, 17 Apr. 2024
• After the the cars collided in the intersection, both went off the right side of the roadway and ended up in a ditch.
  — Erin Couch, The Enquirer, 20 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 12 Dec 2024