Example sentences for: colliding

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

  • The WP describes a "stinging" 40-page report, submitted to Congress by a independent panel appointed by the Defense Department, that criticizes the government for over-optimism about its ability to develop interceptors, or "kill vehicles," that would destroy incoming ballistic missiles by colliding with them at supersonic speed.

  • An FAA radar monitoring system designed to prevent airplanes from colliding with each other on the ground may not be installed until 2002 -- ten years behind schedule, the WP reports.

  • An alternative, but no cheerier, theory suggests that colliding particles could achieve sufficient density to form a mini-black hole whose gravitational field would suck in all surrounding matter.

  • In another incident, one widebody airplane barely missed colliding with another after landing, because the pilot heard Hold short as Oh sure in response to his asking the controller May we cross ? in reference to a runway.

  • They borrowed another trick from physics, using an equation that describes colliding gas molecules to model the interactions between neighboring animals.


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