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Example sentences for "collide"

Lexicographically close words:
collegiates; coller; collet; collets; collibus; collided; colliding; collie; collieries; colliers
  1. The psychological doctrine, that the object of Desire is always Pleasure, is liable to collide with the view of Ethical judgments just given: and in any case deserves careful examination.

  2. The question why affirmative spiritual forces should collide is hard enough; but the question why, together with them, there should be generated violent evil and extreme depravity is harder and more painful still.

  3. Indeed, such a thing was utterly out of the question, with that rough road to follow and the necessity of keeping a constant vigilant outlook, lest they collide with some tree.

  4. If you should collide with one, you will cause, a bell to be rung in the camera obscura room over at the fort.

  5. If your mines contain no explosive, Major," Eph inquired, "how are you going to be able to tell whether I collide gently with one of your submarine mines?

  6. A Planetary Collision," one London paper headed the news, and proclaimed Duchaine's opinion that this strange new planet would probably collide with Neptune.

  7. The man's statements confirm the condition; he is aware of his inability to see objects to his right-hand side, and is apt to collide with persons or objects on that side.

  8. It also may fail to collide with any of the atoms in the molecules of scintillation liquid, of course.

  9. Nor will it collide with anything as it passes through his clothes and the stainless steel tank.

  10. Each of these huge balloons is lighted, so that night-flying planes will not collide with the gas bag or the instrument case suspended below.

  11. Just when we were about to collide I guess I lost my nerve.

  12. I hope they don't come so close that they'll collide with us," murmured the young millionaire.

  13. He was a much different man, however, and begged Dick's forgiveness for trying to collide with him.

  14. By varying the electrostatic force we can agitate the atoms, and cause them to collide accompanied by evolution of heat and light.

  15. But if the pilot should fail to stop the ship, and it should collide with the fender chain, and then if the fender chain should fail to stop it, there would be the double gates at the head of the lock.

  16. At this time, the implicit logic of literacy and the new logics (in the plural) collide in the pragmatic framework.

  17. These were usually carefully construed so as not to collide with the religious viewpoint, unless they bluntly rejected it, regardless of the consequences of such an attitude.

  18. The new dynamics of change and the expectation of adaptability and permanence associated with the nourishment of the civilization of literacy collide at all levels involved in our need to eat and drink.

  19. At the global levels of humankind, when the necessity of literacy declines, dependencies characteristic of literacy-based interactions collide with forces of integration and competition.

  20. And we are told that nebulae wander until they collide and give birth to stars, stars wander and collide and give birth to nebulae.

  21. Peggy suddenly, "there comes a runabout; that ram will surely collide with it!

  22. At almost precisely the same time Jimsy's fist happened to collide with the point of the jaw of the fallen battler's father.

  23. Even if a comet were to collide with the earth head on, there is little reason to believe that dire catastrophe would ensue.

  24. Novae, then, cannot be due to collisions between two stars, for even if we suppose the stars to be a thousand millions in number, no two should collide except at average intervals of many million years.

  25. The acid will ionize more rapidly than it will be formed from the acetate and hydrogen ions (which collide less frequently in the diluted solution) and a new condition of equilibrium will be reached, when more of the acid is ionized.

  26. His terror knows no limit when we almost collide with a large, wide open umbrella which we vaguely catch sight of at the side of the road near a path leading to Volta.

  27. They collide with carts of provisions and convoys of wounded.

  28. The airship tried to collide with the chimney, that's all.

  29. We don't want to run into a rock, or collide with something.

  30. If two rings be formed side by side, they will instantly collide at their edges, showing strong attraction.

  31. Three may in like manner collide and fuse into a single ring.

  32. The wreckage of the gates was also cleared away at the direction of Mr. Presby, so that no one else should collide with it.

  33. Bab suggested that it might be an excellent idea to have him collide with a pair of stout iron gates at regular intervals.

  34. He heard a hissed curse behind him, and realized without thinking about it that he had managed to collide with the same pair of dancers again.

  35. There was little for the Mongol to collide with except empty tables and chairs.


  36. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "collide" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    antagonize; bang; battle; box; brawl; break; broil; brush; bump; cannon; carom; clash; close; collide; combat; compete; conflict; confute; contend; contest; contradict; counter; counteract; countervail; crash; cross; crunch; differ; disaccord; disagree; dissent; duel; encounter; fence; feud; fight; foul; grapple; hit; hurt; hurtle; impinge; interfere; jangle; jar; jostle; joust; knock; meet; negate; object; oppose; oppugn; quarrel; ram; resist; riot; scramble; scuffle; skirmish; slam; smack; smash; spar; strike; strive; struggle; tilt; tourney; tussle; vary; war; wrestle