How to Use crash in a Sentence

crash

1 of 3 verb

• The books crashed to the floor.
• The walls crashed down around them.
• The cymbals crashed and the trumpets blew.
• We listened to the waves crashing against the shore.
• She crashed the car into a tree, but no one was hurt.
• Thunder crashed as the rain started to pour.
• He has crashed two cars, a truck, and a motorcycle.
• The stuntman crashed through the window on a motorcycle.
• He crashed the cymbals together.
• The van crashed just outside the parking lot, in the 3000 block of Prospect Street.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 10 July 2023
• And when that happens, the structure and the habits and the details just crash along with the train.
  — Helene Elliott, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2023
• And the trains are askew again, though nothing crashed this time.
  — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 11 Jan. 2024
• But so many people had swarmed the market that the Wi-Fi crashed.
  — David Browne, Rolling Stone, 17 Nov. 2023
• If they’re being fished at the limit, the stock’s going to crash.
  — Kirsten Chuba, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Aug. 2023
• The officer did not give chase, but the teen crashed trying to make a left turn.
  — Don Sweeney, Sacramento Bee, 20 Feb. 2024
• The driver fled, crashed his car into a ditch and tried to escape on foot.
  — Brian Lisik, cleveland, 14 Aug. 2023
• Instead, the figure comes crashing through the window, like some thug in a cop thriller.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 6 July 2023
• In January, bright pink waves were seen crashing along the shore in San Diego.
  — CBS News, 10 Nov. 2023
• Many homebuilders were scarred by the Great Recession, when a glut of homes on the market crashed prices.
  — Matt Egan, CNN, 2 Mar. 2024
• At Banter Bar, most groups were split in terms of those who stayed up and those who crashed for a few hours before the game.
  — Claire Fahy, New York Times, 1 Aug. 2023
• The craft that crashed was an MH-60 helicopter, the officials said.
  — Luis Martinez, ABC News, 12 Nov. 2023
• Introverts may crash after a few days or weeks and need to recharge alone.
  — Nancy Napier, Idaho Statesman, 18 Feb. 2024
• But crashing in the restaurant allows people, whether from the suburbs or out of town, to stay in the city for cheap.
  — Meaghan Tobin, Washington Post, 24 Sep. 2023
• But the prospect of a crashing real estate market isn’t slowing the stock bulls.
  — Alan Murray, Fortune, 18 July 2023
• In the wake of the invasion, the ruble crashed, inflation spiked, and real wages fell.
  — Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 16 Mar. 2024
• When the shaking subsided, parts of the concrete walls had broken off, and pieces of the ceiling in some rooms had crashed to the floor.
  — Yaqoob Akbary, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2023
• Eight barges broke away, three of which crashed into a gambling vessel that was moored there.
  — Aaron Gregg, Washington Post, 26 Mar. 2024
• Eight crew members were onboard when the aircraft crashed.
  — Lauren Minore, ABC News, 4 Dec. 2023
• Sometime within the next 50 million years, the moon is expected to either crash into Mars or break up into a planetary ring like Saturn's.
  — Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 8 Apr. 2024
• When a 53-foot fish tanker truck crashed and rolled upside down on an embankment next to a creek in northeast Oregon, its driver suffered only minor injuries.
  — Bill Chappell, NPR, 4 Apr. 2024

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crash

2 of 3 adjective

• In the post-crash years, Pennsylvania witnessed a rapid growth in drilling.
  — Whitney Mallett, Curbed, 30 Oct. 2021
• The chinook catch rate eventually climbed back to pre-crash levels.
  — jsonline.com, 2 Sep. 2021
• In this company, only Sunak, who warned of the idiocy of Truss’s crash economic program, has much credibility.
  — Tom McTague, The Atlantic, 21 Oct. 2022
• Just as housing played an outsized role in pre-crash financial markets, so does advertising in the digital economy.
  — Gilad Edelman, Wired, 5 Oct. 2020
• In the late 1960s Singapore had embarked on a crash program of industrialization, offering incentives to multinational companies, especially in such high-tech fields as electronics and semiconductors, to set up factories on the island.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 10 Dec. 2022
• Beyond the surface-level plot similarities, Lost provided a blueprint for Yellowjackets’s gripping dual timelines—using pre-crash flashbacks to reveal the history of its myriad characters.
  — Hayley Maitland, Vogue, 22 Jan. 2022
• During the training, trainees will develop skills including emergency vehicle operations, defensive tactics, communications, hazardous materials, first-aid, post-crash investigations and truck inspections.
  — Post-Tribune Staff, chicagotribune.com, 15 Oct. 2021
• In the post-crash years, Pennsylvania witnessed a rapid growth in drilling.
  — Whitney Mallett, Curbed, 30 Oct. 2021
• The chinook catch rate eventually climbed back to pre-crash levels.
  — jsonline.com, 2 Sep. 2021
• In this company, only Sunak, who warned of the idiocy of Truss’s crash economic program, has much credibility.
  — Tom McTague, The Atlantic, 21 Oct. 2022
• Just as housing played an outsized role in pre-crash financial markets, so does advertising in the digital economy.
  — Gilad Edelman, Wired, 5 Oct. 2020
• In the late 1960s Singapore had embarked on a crash program of industrialization, offering incentives to multinational companies, especially in such high-tech fields as electronics and semiconductors, to set up factories on the island.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 10 Dec. 2022
• Beyond the surface-level plot similarities, Lost provided a blueprint for Yellowjackets’s gripping dual timelines—using pre-crash flashbacks to reveal the history of its myriad characters.
  — Hayley Maitland, Vogue, 22 Jan. 2022
• During the training, trainees will develop skills including emergency vehicle operations, defensive tactics, communications, hazardous materials, first-aid, post-crash investigations and truck inspections.
  — Post-Tribune Staff, chicagotribune.com, 15 Oct. 2021
• In the post-crash years, Pennsylvania witnessed a rapid growth in drilling.
  — Whitney Mallett, Curbed, 30 Oct. 2021
• The chinook catch rate eventually climbed back to pre-crash levels.
  — jsonline.com, 2 Sep. 2021
• In this company, only Sunak, who warned of the idiocy of Truss’s crash economic program, has much credibility.
  — Tom McTague, The Atlantic, 21 Oct. 2022
• Just as housing played an outsized role in pre-crash financial markets, so does advertising in the digital economy.
  — Gilad Edelman, Wired, 5 Oct. 2020
• In the late 1960s Singapore had embarked on a crash program of industrialization, offering incentives to multinational companies, especially in such high-tech fields as electronics and semiconductors, to set up factories on the island.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 10 Dec. 2022
• Beyond the surface-level plot similarities, Lost provided a blueprint for Yellowjackets’s gripping dual timelines—using pre-crash flashbacks to reveal the history of its myriad characters.
  — Hayley Maitland, Vogue, 22 Jan. 2022
• During the training, trainees will develop skills including emergency vehicle operations, defensive tactics, communications, hazardous materials, first-aid, post-crash investigations and truck inspections.
  — Post-Tribune Staff, chicagotribune.com, 15 Oct. 2021
• In the post-crash years, Pennsylvania witnessed a rapid growth in drilling.
  — Whitney Mallett, Curbed, 30 Oct. 2021
• The chinook catch rate eventually climbed back to pre-crash levels.
  — jsonline.com, 2 Sep. 2021
• In this company, only Sunak, who warned of the idiocy of Truss’s crash economic program, has much credibility.
  — Tom McTague, The Atlantic, 21 Oct. 2022
• Just as housing played an outsized role in pre-crash financial markets, so does advertising in the digital economy.
  — Gilad Edelman, Wired, 5 Oct. 2020
• In the late 1960s Singapore had embarked on a crash program of industrialization, offering incentives to multinational companies, especially in such high-tech fields as electronics and semiconductors, to set up factories on the island.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 10 Dec. 2022
• Beyond the surface-level plot similarities, Lost provided a blueprint for Yellowjackets’s gripping dual timelines—using pre-crash flashbacks to reveal the history of its myriad characters.
  — Hayley Maitland, Vogue, 22 Jan. 2022
• During the training, trainees will develop skills including emergency vehicle operations, defensive tactics, communications, hazardous materials, first-aid, post-crash investigations and truck inspections.
  — Post-Tribune Staff, chicagotribune.com, 15 Oct. 2021

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crash

3 of 3 noun

• Lisin died in a car crash in 2011—well over a decade ago.
  — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 16 June 2023
• Top-of-the-line crash ratings on front and side impacts.
  — Oliver Broudy, Men's Health, 17 Aug. 2023
• The car burst into flames after the crash, per the reports.
  — Abigail Adams, Peoplemag, 7 Mar. 2024
• Netflix has said that the exact moment of the crash will not be shown.
  — Christopher Parker, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Oct. 2023
• All six people aboard the aircraft died as a result of the crash, the SBSD said.
  — Abigail Adams, Peoplemag, 12 Feb. 2024
• State police said the Exit 92 off-ramp was closed for some time because of the crash.
  — Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 16 Jan. 2024
• Details on the circumstances of the crash were not released.
  — Mona Darwish, Orange County Register, 11 Apr. 2024
• It was not known if drugs or alcohol were a factor in the crash.
  — City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Oct. 2023
• The crash happened around 5:50 p.m. local time, according to the base.
  — Luis Rodriguez, ABC News, 4 Jan. 2024
• At the time of the crash, the road was wet from rain, although it was not known if the crash was weather-related.
  — Kristina Davis, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Feb. 2024
• Their siblings Alan Miller, 9, and Rose Miller, 13, were also injured in the crash.
  — John Molseed, Twin Cities, 10 Feb. 2024
• This reduces rotational motion to the brain in the event of a crash.
  — goodhousekeeping.com, 18 May 2023
• The crash onto a Half Moon Bay beach a little before 5 p.m. on Feb. 8 wasn’t lethal, deputies said.
  — Julia Daye, Sacramento Bee, 9 Feb. 2024
• The only survivor of the crash was Trevor Rees-Jones, who was Dodi’s bodyguard.
  — Korin Miller, Women's Health, 18 May 2023
• On the ship On the ship, a desperate effort was underway to avoid a crash.
  — William Wan, Washington Post, 30 Mar. 2024
• The Sylmar motorist was killed in the crash, the TV news outlet reported.
  — Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2023
• Three swimmers from the University of Wyoming have been killed in a car crash.
  — Gabrielle Rockson, Peoplemag, 23 Feb. 2024
• This weekend’s crash was not the MiG-23’s first North American crash.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 17 Aug. 2023
• The crash is apparently linked to the current bribery charges against the senator and his wife.
  — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 6 Oct. 2023
• In 1947, his father died in a plane crash, leaving the infant Carl as the heir apparent.
  — Lauren Hubbard, Town & Country, 10 Sep. 2023
• The Erbil air base also came under attack the day before the drone crash.
  — Gordon Lubold, WSJ, 3 Nov. 2023
• The man was injured after responding to the scene for the crash, ABC 7 reported.
  — Emma Colton, Fox News, 9 Oct. 2023
• In a study released last year, Waymo found that its crash rate was 85% lower than that of humans.
  — Rachel Uranga, Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 2024
• Fines would be doubled if the penalty occurs during a car crash.
  — Arpan Lobo, Detroit Free Press, 19 June 2023
• Irvine police are investigating the cause of the crash.
  — Dorany Pineda, Los Angeles Times, 25 Nov. 2023
• The Bullitt County community is mourning the death of a 16-year-old girl killed over the weekend in a car crash.
  — Lucas Aulbach, The Courier-Journal, 29 Aug. 2023
• Stephen Richard Becker of Timonium died at the scene of the crash in Dundalk.
  — Dan Belson, Baltimore Sun, 30 May 2023
• One person was killed in a two-vehicle crash in Athens Thursday night.
  — William Thornton | [e-mail], al, 21 July 2023
• Muttart testified that Grossman’s excessive speed led to the crash that killed the boys.
  — Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 9 Feb. 2024
• The Freightliner and Peterbilt drivers were not injured in the crash.
  — The Enquirer, 11 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024