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Example sentences for: crashes

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

The story saves for the 10th paragraph the total number of unrestrained babies who've been killed in plane crashes in the past 20 years: two.
For instance, how many children have been killed in car crashes this year, or shot?
When an airliner crashes, the papers quickly announce that it's a Boeing or an Airbus--why should this be different?
While some surely would find the notion of an island vacation with no beach time an unusual prospect indeed, perhaps it isn’t at all a tragedy that Madeira’s shoreline crashes so violently into the ocean.
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.