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Example sentences for: clashes

How can you use “clashes” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

The meetings were disrupted by protests, which resulted in more than 500 arrests and sometimes violent clashes with police.
The two papers note that violent clashes broke out in the Palestinian-controlled city of Ramallah, resulting in the death of one Fatah member, after Palestinian security forces, pursuant to the new agreement, raided the Fatah headquarters there, confiscating documents and weapons and making five arrests."
Clashes of race and politics are exacerbated by the emotional intensity of a deadline that everyone thinks historical, though for different reasons.
As I show in my book Fatal Words: Communication Clashes and Aircraft Crashes (University of Chicago Press, 1994), these examples are representative of a wide range of accidents and near misses in which language misunderstandings or omissions have played a contributing and sometimes central role.
We partially automated this procedure by developing programs to identify side chains with implausible packing, clashes, and unfavorable electrostatic interactions with other side chains and/or main chain.