How to Use implode in a Sentence

implode

verb

• The submersible was not up to the task and imploded on its way down to the ocean floor.
  — Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA TODAY, 18 Sep. 2024
• The election alone didn't cause Wall Street to implode in 2000.
  — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 4 Nov. 2020
• Instead of imploding along the way, the Irish seemed to get stronger.
  — Mike Berardino, Indianapolis Star, 27 Nov. 2019
• Even when the dates implode, the show is able to maintain a hopeful vibe.
  — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 14 Nov. 2022
• The walls had to be solid steel a foot thick so the chamber wouldn’t implode.
  — Mark Synnott, Wired, 13 Apr. 2021
• In some ways, this line signals how the team’s crime spree will implode.
  — Brandon Tensley, Washington Post, 21 July 2023
• The killings took place as the Ottoman Empire began to implode.
  — James Hookway, WSJ, 24 Apr. 2021
• And even some other drives in there that weren’t great — not imploding.
  — Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Sep. 2023
• To get there, her two rivals first had to see their campaigns implode.
  — New York Times, 7 June 2021
• The lawsuit also alleges the chilling detail that the crew would have been aware that the sub was about to implode.
  — Phil Helsel, NBC News, 8 Aug. 2024
• Rush was among the five people who died when the submersible imploded.
  — CBS News, 23 Sep. 2024
• Like baseball, those plans could implode at any minute.
  — Tim Dahlberg, Star Tribune, 27 July 2020
• Never mind the tragedy of the Titan imploding last June on its way to the Titanic, killing all on board.
  — Thomas Curwen, Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar. 2024
• Among the chaos is one of Jackson’s favorite moments, where the VFX team got to explode and implode a building at the same time.
  — Daron James, Los Angeles Times, 23 Mar. 2021
• After the Mets’ bullpen imploded a night before, the stable held it down this time around.
  — James O'Connell, Hartford Courant, 19 May 2024
• To be clear, there are also times when a sweet spot just doesn't exist and things simply implode.
  — Phil Mattingly, CNN, 22 Sep. 2021
• Powerful at its core, the wine seems to implode on itself.
  — Dave McIntyre, Washington Post, 4 Sep. 2020
• And yet the very thing that the Ravens were supposed to depend on this season, the pride and joy of this franchise, has imploded in less than a month.
  — Jonas Shaffer, baltimoresun.com, 30 Sep. 2019
• Rush was among five people who died when the submersible imploded en route to the site of the Titanic wreck in June 2023.
  — Patrick Whittle, Fortune, 20 Sep. 2024
• Quartz: A lot of people were surprised when FTX, of all firms, imploded.
  — Nate Dicamillo, Quartz, 12 May 2023
• Once the two SoCal schools bolted, the die was cast and the conference imploded.
  — Los Angeles Times, 12 Aug. 2023
• And as contenders implode around the league, so does the competition.
  — Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 Sep. 2022
• To feel the effects of this deterrent, fish need to be close to an imploding bubble.
  — Carolyn Hagler, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 May 2023
• In Western Germany, the AfD has flatlined and seems close to imploding.
  — New York Times, 27 Oct. 2019
• But the Jets’ locker room is going to implode if Wilson doesn’t start holding up his end of the bargain.
  — Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Oct. 2022
• Three of Kody’s marriages imploded within a span of 14 months.
  — Esther Kang, Peoplemag, 20 Nov. 2023
• The Titan submersible that imploded was one of two seacraft used by OceanGate.
  — Bychris Morris, Fortune, 18 July 2023
• In the blink of an eye on what should have been a regular Saturday evening, their lives imploded.
  — Brian Brant, Peoplemag, 19 Jan. 2024
• Republicans will have to figure out how to overcome that and not just wait for Democrats to implode.
  — Michael Smolens Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Oct. 2021
• The unwieldy tone, which teeters between ominous and light camp (there’s a shocking toupee and overdone homoeroticism), implodes on itself, and the rest of the episodes are a repetitive slog.
  — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 19 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Nov 2024