How to Use implosion in a Sentence

implosion

noun
  • The implosion of Voyager, a crypto broker that filed for bankruptcy last week, has stung trading firms and small investors.
    Taylor Locke, Fortune, 12 July 2022
  • And, with a 9-4 lead over Detroit’s light-weight offense, nothing hinted at a forthcoming implosion.
    Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 13 July 2024
  • This seems to have intensified the months-long protest that has swept Sri Lanka, culminating in today’s implosion.
    Harish Pullanoor, Quartz, 9 July 2022
  • Dust masks will be provided to spectators who watch the implosion from the Magnolia Parking Deck.
    Ben Flanagan | Bflanagan@al.com, al, 21 June 2022
  • In the decade or so between the brand’s inception and its implosion, the documentary offers tales of drugs, gangs, shady contracts and threats of physical violence over shady contracts.
    Beatrice Verhoeven, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 June 2022
  • Evan describes the implosion in the back of the Rangers’ bullpen.
    Sportsday Staff, Dallas News, 26 Apr. 2023
  • That was less than the $2.3 billion pulled in the week that followed FTX's implosion.
    Caitlin Ostroff, WSJ, 13 Dec. 2022
  • Could actions that led to the Titan implosion be a crime?
    Cara Tabachnick, CBS News, 29 June 2023
  • Some may look on this implosion with a sense of relief.
    Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 21 July 2023
  • The agencies involved are still looking for clues as to what could've caused the sub's implosion this week.
    Brenton Blanchet, Peoplemag, 23 June 2023
  • The 26-year-old’s fifth-inning implosion was in line with what the Bombers saw in his previous two starts.
    James O'Connell, New York Daily News, 3 July 2024
  • Remains to be seen what this means for arguably the league's most electric athlete, who didn't make it to the end of 2021's late-stage implosion.
    Nate Davis, USA TODAY, 5 Aug. 2022
  • The implosion of the comic-book industry got us to Number One.
    Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 23 Aug. 2022
  • The debate last week — Biden’s implosion — was bad news for the Ukrainian people and their future.
    Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 1 July 2024
  • Its shares plunged earlier this week, raising the specter of a third major US bank implosion in days.
    Ellen Francis, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Mar. 2023
  • But not everyone shares the desire to stay loyal to the bank after its implosion.
    Catherine Thorbecke, CNN, 17 Mar. 2023
  • What was left of the historic building came down as planned in an implosion at 7:30 a.m. Central Daylight Time.
    Lee Roop | Lroop@al.com, al, 29 Oct. 2022
  • More about the Titan vessel Follow our live blog for the latest updates as focus turns to finding the cause of the implosion.
    Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 23 June 2023
  • And so China is on the verge of a demographic implosion.
    CBS News, 10 Aug. 2022
  • You were assisted by the implosion of the comic-book industry at that time.
    Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 23 Aug. 2022
  • For a story about the messy implosion of two lives, there’s a stultifying neatness to Days of Wine and Roses.
    Sara Holdren, Vulture, 28 Jan. 2024
  • The impact of the firm’s implosion was immediate and sweeping.
    David Yaffe-Bellany, New York Times, 9 June 2023
  • In this case, Gomes believes America would see something of a Liz Truss-like implosion.
    Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 16 Feb. 2024
  • But in the Bahamas, the implosion has meant not just lost fortunes but lost confidence in a dream of financial acclaim.
    Tim Craig, Drew Harwell, Nitasha Tiku, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Nov. 2022
  • Repeated bullpen implosions tend to make a manager’s hair turn gray, so be sure to check back on David Ross and Pedro Grifol at the end of the season.
    Lamond Pope, Chicago Tribune, 29 May 2023
  • Initially, the market believed the FTX implosion was the result of an old-fashioned bank run on the exchange's reserves.
    Riley Gutiérrez McDermid, USA TODAY, 17 Nov. 2022
  • Walk Among Us wasn’t an arrival so much as a nuclear implosion.
    Spin Staff, SPIN, 15 Aug. 2022
  • But in a second major scoop that led to FTX’s implosion, Allison learned that the crucial deal would not happen.
    Oliver Darcy, CNN, 24 Nov. 2022
  • Its final-hour implosion left behind a negative space—a black hole in the zeitgeist.
    Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2022
  • The movie will follow the events that took place before, during, and after the Titan’s implosion, Deadline reports.
    Emma Roth, The Verge, 29 Sep. 2023

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