Example sentences for: collapsing

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

  • The French empire was collapsing.

  • When you see this snake swallow Jon Voight and then regurgitate him in front of Jennifer Lopez like a cat presenting a dead bird, when you see Voight give a little ironic wink before collapsing to the floor and dying in a puddle of digestive slime, you are witnessing one of those classic I-Don't-Think-So moments that help define the contemporary moviegoing experience.

  • People were collapsing on benches with advanced cases of art prostration.

  • If you didn't click through to all the internal links, fire up a menthol and read at your leisure about behind the litigation and the for why the settlement deal keeps collapsing.

  • Here was a boy growing up in Punjab during the fall of the Raj and the Partition, a boy who had been blinded by meningitis at the age of 3, roller-skating through the back streets of Lahore as Sikhs slaughtered Hindus and Hindus slaughtered Muslims and civilization was collapsing and then, decades later, having made his way from India to an Arkansas school for the blind to Balliol College, Oxford, to The New Yorker , re-creating the whole thing in Proustian detail and better-than-Proustian prose ...


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