Words similar to crashes

Example sentences for: crashes

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

So previous terrorism-related Korea Air crashes and/or TWA 800 get trotted out, and the NYT wonders whether the aircrew was familiar with the Guam airport.
They found that drivers of air-bag-equipped cars initiate a disproportionate number of crashes involving fatalities, and that, as a result, the occupants of such cars are at considerably higher risk than those in cars without air bags.
Attribution of injury to alcohol involvement in young adults seriously injured in alcohol-related motor vehicle crashes.
USA Today leads with the FAA's announcement Tuesday of a new airline safety agenda designed to cut crashes by 80 percent over the next ten years, primarily by reducing engine explosions and episodes of flying unaware into the ground.
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.