Synonym: break down, crash, fail, topple. Similar words: collar, collaboration, collect, college, colleague, collector, collection, collective. Meaning: [kə’læps] 
n. 1. an abrupt failure of function or health 2. a mishap caused by something suddenly falling down or caving in 3. the act of throwing yourself down 4. a sudden large decline of business or the prices of stocks (especially one that causes additional failures). v. 1. break down, literally or metaphorically 2. collapse due to fatigue, an illness, or a sudden attack 3. fold or close up 4. fall apart 5. cause to burst 6. suffer a nervous breakdown 7. lose significance, effectiveness, or value.
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1 The unexpected rainstorm caused the collapse of the roof.
2 She was on the verge of nervous collapse.
3 Their economy is teetering on the brink of collapse.
4 The collapse of the company had repercussions for the whole industry.
5 After the disastrous collapse accident the bodies were too badly mangled to be recognized.
6 Wall Street’s collapse raised spectres of the 1987 stock market crash.
7 If the foundations of the house aren’t stable,(www.Sentencedict.com) collapse is possible.
8 I should think you’re about ready to collapse after all that walking.
9 The government predicates that the market collapse was caused by Asian financial crisis.
10 The ancient abbey was in imminent danger of collapse.
11 The collapse of Communism changed East-West relations for ever.
12 The company is on the edge of collapse.
13 The bridge is liable to collapse at any moment.
14 The system is in imminent danger of collapse.
15 The country’s economy is on the verge of collapse.
16 Yesterday morning shares seemed to recover from Monday’s collapse.
17 The storm caused the collapse of the roof.
18 Their economy is on the edge of collapse.
19 The collapse, when it came, was total.
20 She suffered a collapse under anaesthetic.
21 The economy is in a state of collapse.
22 The country’s economy is on the point of collapse.
23 His business was in danger of collapse .
24 The walls were strengthened to protect them from collapse.
25 The wait will not be very long, but your white-haired hair collapse hurt.
26 But if he does this, he may hasten the collapse of his own country.
27 This action brought the country to the verge of economic collapse.
28 Ten years of incompetent government had brought about the virtual collapse of the country’s economy.
29 These measures brought the republic to the verge of economic collapse.
30 The hot sun enervated her to the point of collapse.
More similar words: collar, collaboration, collect, college, colleague, collector, collection, collective, colloquial, perhaps, lap, slap, upset, glimpse, all along, all at once, as well as, all around, installation, surveillance, Color., color, doll, toll, poll, roll, column, colony, follow, roll in.
Sentences with the word Collapse?
Collapse
Examples
- «the collapse of the movement was attributable to a lack of morale»; «an idea attributable to a Russian»
- «the roof is in danger of collapse«; «the collapse of the old star under its own gravity»
- «fold up your umbrella»; «collapse the music stand»
- «hope of eventual (or ultimate) rescue»; «if this trend continues it is not reasonable to expect the eventual collapse of the stock market»
- «there is little likelihood of a meltdown comparable to the American banking collapse in March 1933″
- «a partial description of the suspect»; «partial collapse«; «a partial eclipse»; «a partial monopoly»; «partial immunity»
- «get ready»; «she is ready to resign»; «the bridge is ready to collapse«; «I am ready to work»; «ready for action»; «ready for use»; «the soup will be ready in a minute»; «ready to learn to read»
- «a country in the throes of economic collapse«
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For a moment, I just want to collapse here behind my ninja corpse wall, but then I hear Aiko
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’ Molly said as we collapse on the chairs in the kitchen
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It was, in fact, the collapse and corruption of the state that was leading to the new hard line
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If no, then there can easily be a total collapse of the congregation
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I can trust that the chair I sit in is not going to collapse
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This collapse comes in the form of a
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«So society wouldn’t collapse in a class war between the haves and the have-nots
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I have a horrid feeling that if I try to dismount, I shall collapse in a heap
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The system would collapse
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I nearly collapse as my knees give under me
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He found that his disappointment in the collapse of his hopes and dreams for Rose carried through into each new liaison
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Nikos kept the rugged and desolate coast of northern Stephanos at a safe distance and whenever a wave broke over the bow and showered me with salty balls of foam Alexis would collapse in fits of laughter at my cringing and groaning
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Then why did my fucking mall collapse? What did he
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‘I quite thought Simon was going to collapse when he saw her
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Knossos and Atlantis were like Washington and Wall Street during the American collapse,” Yellelle told her
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Their civilization was crowded, but had never come as far in its collapse as America’s
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disappointment in the collapse of his hopes and dreams for Rose
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good push, he thought, and it would probably collapse like a house of
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the beasts collapse after a few minutes
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were close to collapse
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suppose we did cause it to collapse
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He certainly would have loved to see Venna now and collapse into her arms and crash for a week
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During the collapse of Dempala, the monsters were produced
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It was only the inability of the Orcs and Goblins to form a productive society that lead to their collapse
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The room suddenly shrank, the walls seemed to collapse in on him
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He clawed his way to the tower, only to collapse at its base – utterly spent; his skin fading to an oily black
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The wind almost knocked him over but he balanced himself just before collapse
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They reached an incredibly high bridge between clumps of towers and subconsciously had the sense to stop and collapse onto one of the benches on the tiny plaza beside it before they went pitching over the edge
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described the collapse several years earlier of their great
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For the first time Nathaniel saw how close the older man was to collapse
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Behind her she felt Emily collapse with exhaustion
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X’ander proceeded to finish him off with a powerful double palm strike to the man’s sternum, causing the man to collapse in a helpless heap
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The walls did partially collapse, but not
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western part before the collapse
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After the collapse of the Western Roman Empire, the
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led to the collapse of the system
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collapse of the former U
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collapse when he’d come into the shed
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It was within reach now, a few more bushes and bare trees to pass before she could collapse without fear
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To dream that you crack a walnut foretells that your expectations will collapse
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They barely made it beyond the city walls and across the great bridge before a large portion of the battlements groaned and crashed, their collapse sending even more dust and smoke to the sky
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On the other hand, if the amount of smell in the Universe is strong enough to provide enough gravitational pull, they could reverse their expansion and begin to collapse in on themselves, combining once more into a single unified odour
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the fall of LDP, the ruling party of Japan for over 50 years and the collapse of the Enron corporation
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Hendersen walks down to his room, they sort-of collapse onto beds, cots, and air mattresses
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To his relief she was still breathing so the others helped him carry her away from the edge of the ledge, just in case a similar collapse happened on that side too
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The realm of Venus began to collapse
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‘You know of the temporal uncertainties, and the possibility of total collapse
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“Even if it means the collapse of Mars’s empire? You know if the Lead Arrows collapse, we will eventually collapse too
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“We’ve managed to save about half of the Temples from collapse, but we cannot simply keep our Guardians there and still protect ourselves from attack
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We were thanked for our efforts and told we had put up a magnificent show and the what we had been waiting for happened and we were dismissed night was falling as we got back to our trench we slumped to the floor in a state of collapse were the cold bit into us and then the rain teemed down
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Most were on the verge of collapse
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But if the damage to the habitat causes it to collapse, it could take weeks to dig us out
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Sebastian grabbed his brother, pushing him the other direction as the tunnel started to collapse
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Finally, Evans couldn’t bear to watch as the cave gave a massive growl of collapse
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Your gravitenetic shield was about to collapse
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It’s a matter of picoseconds for the shield bubble collapse
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“You wanna cause a collapse?!” I
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” If that couldn’t cause a collapse, then what will? “The firstborns are the last rank existent
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Monday mornings and knew by the evening he would collapse in
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Those worthless bundled mortgages (investments) are what led to this country»s financial meltdown and the collapse of the housing market
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Adem wanted to collapse, but he did not want anyone to see him show signs of weakness
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Someone who had died would show some form of neurological collapse if not trauma
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“I’ve seen a ship swallowed by the singularity formed after the collapse of its coils,” he said
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And yet they may have only been a product of his imagination, such was the collapse of partitions between the conscious and underlying mental processes
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within the envelope of collapse, is zero percent,” the AI warned
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“By the time they can do that, they’ll be within the envelope of collapse
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The urge to just collapse into the grass was overwhelming
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The Man, however, stopped laughing the moment Longleaf’s right fist connected with the scallywag’s midriff, prompting him to expel all the air in his lungs and collapse to the ground
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Whole walls started to collapse just as they passed them until they reached the path leading out of the gorge and onto a hillside, where they collapsed with exhaustion
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Instead of hollering for help, the burly seaman had the grace to roll his eyes up into his head and collapse forward onto Longleaf, who groaned loudly at the immense weight
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The man looked as if he was about to collapse and Terry took a step towards him
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Slikit turned as Soffen’s voice faded away, in time to see her collapse
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I felt my heart collapse, pass through my knees and sink into the floor
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Her legs were shooting daggers of agonizing pain with each movement, and her body was on the verge of collapse
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Thus says The Lord, to all those who dwell within these detestable walls; to all these who stand inside these undesirable gates, hear The Word of The Lord: Shall you trust in the works of your own hands, O sons of men? How long shall you be wise in your own eyes? For that which you have erected shall be your undoing, and that which you uphold shall surely collapse upon your own heads! For I have seen it! Says The Lord
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Hurrying forward he stopped beside a bloodied boar who looked as though he was about to collapse
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Suddenly it all came rushing back– the fight with the guards, the collapse of the stone pile above the entrance, the flying rock that had struck him on the head
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She told herself not to collapse from the shock
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In the mid 1990s, an economic collapse led to massive public protests
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He jumped over the narrow collapse in the ledge and landed with his right foot on the rock he had seen just ahead of the gap
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Her hero was a rapist and terrorist who bombed public housing, made painfully bad 30 page speeches, demonized all religion and compassion, and deluded himself into thinking society would collapse without elites
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When the officers are too strong and the common soldiers too weak, the result is COLLAPSE
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A matronly woman perched atop a barstool that threatened to collapse under her bulk guarded a curtained doorway
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Then he had left me to fumble into my apartment and collapse on the couch, hoping we hadn’t just ruined a friendship trying for something more
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“I know it doesn’t sound right, does it? Well it wasn’t: our military forces should have been there and prevented the collapse of the Samosa Government
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She was suddenly at the point of exhaustive collapse with legs and arms that were uselessly weak
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But the Confederate economy will take another hit in the 1870s, when cotton prices collapse worldwide
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“With the collapse of the Russians, and the signing of the armistice on the Eastern Front, they realize that this opportunity may not come their way again
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The younger one held herself upright by the kitchen table, but Payne could see that she was about to collapse at any moment
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She just wanted to collapse into the corner, as she used to do as a child when the girls at school made her cry
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He had to catch his breath and felt close to collapse
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The news had just started, and it described the collapse of the Twin Towers
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His company, Bear Towers, was about to collapse into a financial black hole unless he came up with something fast
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The physics of it’s collapse eluded me but there was no time
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Or it may have been seen as a consequence of the unnatural use of the land, as in irrigation, through which a buildup of salts in the soil ended in the collapse of its ability to produce plant life of any kind
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Empty villages and towns were a stark reminder of the power of this process wherein a corresponding collapse of the communities dependant on that production was occasioned
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This time it was right! This time it looked necessary or she would collapse at his feet
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“Each one must do all that we can to survive this thing, this calamity, or none may make it! None!” Zoran said just short of a shout, hoping that he had been stern enough without causing the total collapse of his mate’s determination
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Scram was pounding out the Yankees collapse when the
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His strong arm had been added to hers that clutched her middle as he had taken control of her collapse
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Travis collapsed onto the ground in tears and his mother leaned down to comfort him
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I was still sitting in the broken arm chair I had collapsed into
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All of a sudden I was tossed into the air, landed against bookshelves and I collapsed on the floor together with some heavy volumes, while Arion was already aiming his weapon at me
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collapsed to the ground
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collapsed in the desert sand
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but to see him, prone and collapsed, migrained and unconscious
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He collapsed on the ground in a heap
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When he had run in the exercise ring to the limit of his endurance, training for just such an event as this, he had collapsed in exhaustion after less than a quarter this distance and that was without the pack
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Luray and Yarin collapsed on the bed as soon as they’d gulped down a few bites of some hash that Yendee brought in from the dock cooks
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A sudden burst of coughing and laughter, and they collapsed onto the ground
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He collapsed into the booth, ordered a double strength Americano, put his head in his hands and wept like a baby
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Left alone with her thoughts, Cyberia collapsed in on herself and slumped down into one of the big leather boardroom chairs
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Helen collapsed onto the kitchen floor in a haze of adrenalin and alcoholic abuse
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He collapsed into the booth, ordered a
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Left alone with her thoughts, Cyberia collapsed in on herself and
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But my life collapsed
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Helen collapsed onto the kitchen floor in a haze of adrenalin and
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collapsed onto his back with a roar
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Jack has collapsed the stretcher and is ready to move Leona
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Eventually he tags a valve in one of the collapsed veins in her hand and administers adrenaline
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Seems this one just collapsed, but yours went down slowly
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The horse whinnied loudly and collapsed causing
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two wheels had collapsed and the axles were bent
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They collapsed, and closed the
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collapsed inwards sending plumes of dust and
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«Earlier this morning two girls were rushed here to A&E having collapsed at The Basement club in Bideford
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Mickey was suspended some feet below the top of the cliff, holding on to the remains of the bush which had apparently collapsed under his weight when he fell onto it
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shots, and several pigs at the front of the herd collapsed only fifty feet
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older man practically collapsed into a chair
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collapsed against the railing, then toppled over the side
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I remember it as clearly now as if it were yesterday … we’d got back to my place after the gig – a black tie dinner for the local Masonic lodge – and collapsed on the sofa in the lounge: me, in my strapless scarlet ball gown and Alastair in his DJ
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‘Your parents were in their hotel … the hotel’s directly on the fault line and even though it had been built to resist earthquake damage and most of it was still standing, one wall collapsed
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I’ll be staying here for a few days as Sally’s collapsed under the shock though we’ve had the doctor out and he’s given her a sedative
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Matt walked on over to Trouble Valley and collapsed onto his bed
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Jean collapsed onto a chair and
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just before she collapsed, and eased her into the tattered
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By the time we have collapsed all rows we should have a large space to lay out the bodies
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Tetloan grabbed hold of the elf as he collapsed
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Drau’d thought he saw an inner glow from the hammer as his father collapsed the being’s chest cavity
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The Red Wall itself collapsed into a pile of sand
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He collapsed into the cook’s hammock-chair causing a severely unpleasant scowl on the cook’s face
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into the great hospice, he very nearly collapsed with
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monk had gone, Jean collapsed onto his mattress and fell
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caught her just before she collapsed
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One of the prisoners found this to be so amusing that he collapsed on the floor in a paroxysm of laughter
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unbearable, and the poor boy collapsed face first into the
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He then stumbled his way through the students and collapsed at the back of the crowd
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further climbing, he collapsed on his back, grateful to
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She had collapsed at the base of the wall
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Emily collapsed and so did her shield
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Luckily, the signature of his dark power was enough – the wall before him collapsed in a pool of black sludge, revealing a clear pathway to a massive branch that seemed to span the heavens
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collapsed when the combustible (enthusiasm) was
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When the ewe collapsed, Tragus added three vicious kicks in parting
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Nerissa’s last few hopes collapsed
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culture of our ancient ancestors had collapsed because they’d run out of timber
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Nearing the top of the hill she could see the charred frame of a structure, twisted beams and stone collapsed onto a resilient foundation
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As he looked around, eying the collapsed entrance and then the dusty bedrolls and fire pit full of ashes, the reality began to sink in and to overtake him
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Thin shoots of light broke through the clutter of the collapsed entrance
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But all things have a limit and shortly before the Bretons found theirs, the machine collapsed to the ground in a groaning roar
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And they soon collapsed on the floor some distance from the dysfunctional Dwemer construct
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The partial stump spurted very dark ooze and blood and the creature finally collapsed, twitching even after it fell
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He muttered to himself as he walked and only when he turned around to see why Penelope didn’t answer a question did he see that the young woman had collapsed in the snow
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The Mindsnapper field that had been controlling him had collapsed with the man-dog’s state of shock
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The creature collapsed, exhausted from lack of blood
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I grabbed one of the empty bowls as quickly as I could and got it underneath her bowed head before I collapsed
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Tears were streaming down my face from the effort by the time I was done, and I slid the bowl away and collapsed back on the pallet
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He collapsed against me in relief
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There was a thud as her body collapsed completely, landing on the hard wood floor, and still neither of us moved
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First she slapped him, twice for good measure, and then collapsed against him, completely overcome by her tears
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The wall had collapsed in several places and he stepped over one low section onto the gravel walkway beyond
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‘You collapsed, whilst climbing, about halfway up
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And Iylin watched as, without force against it, the gate simply collapsed
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He collapsed into the mud, and more of his blood was mixed into the great soup that had been made by the Battle of the Osilar Young
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He collapsed on the sofa
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As soon as the probe attempted any kind of detailed analysis the system collapsed; it wouldn’t bear scrutiny
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By the time the social and then the economic underpinnings collapsed, everyone had chosen sides and there was no American unity
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The momentum was too much for him to control and he immediately staggered clumsily forward onto his hands and knees, held for a moment and then collapsed flat on his chest, winding himself again
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The extra effort had taken its toll and he was forced to rest, before he collapsed from exhaustion
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Scott stood back and watched it as its metal frame began to fold up, first at the four hinge points and then the carbon frame collapsed in on itself like an old-style inner tube, and again folding until what was left was a rectangular box, ten by three centimetres deep
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But they all collapsed into points of light, which in turn vanished
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A second later his own bubble collapsed, and he was standing before another bubble
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image became clearer, and clearer still when the bubble collapsed
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The whole vessel was lying at an angle within the crater and all four of the huge landing feet had collapsed under the force of the impact
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The wormhole collapsed after an unprecedented two and a half minutes – for a remote connection
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When they got back to the common room, Scott was feeling so tired he collapsed on the large reclining chair, the fear and despair finally giving way to melancholy
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Kate caught her before she collapsed unconscious on the floor
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As he sat in the darkness of his quarters he brooded over why it had all gone so disastrously wrong, how the wormhole generator could have collapsed so terminally that no effort – even after days of rebuilding – was able to recreate anything like a stable field (although he did suspect his supervisors were deliberately not making the effort to have it restored)
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One thing they still allowed Torbin was a remote interface with the scanning probes, which were now very near to the region where the wormhole exit had collapsed
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She almost collapsed onto the moulded plastic chair beside the bed; her legs just didn’t seem to have the strength to support her
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Torbin collapsed in an electrically-induced paralysis
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“Yon Officer is a pillock what the fucks he on about with his bloody stones in a week’s time this lot will have collapsed into the sea”, we all burst out laughing at the thought of the pier collapsing and disappearing below the waves
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More booms followed causing most of the lights in the hub to go out completely, shortly before a large chunk of the ceiling ruptured and collapsed
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A large section of the wall in this corridor had splintered and collapsed, partially blocking their way onward
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The arch above the door to the hub had also collapsed, leaving only a small gap near the ceiling
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They hacked the stones to pieces, pulling Sebastian out of the wreckage while the cave collapsed around them
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He collapsed without a sound
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What have you done?” I collapsed and would have fallen to the ground, but Jesus held me
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As they placed the crossbar on the man»s shoulder, he almost collapsed
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We could also see a few shell holes in the ground around us and a cottage on our right was just a shell of a building with a collapsed roof
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As we marched along we could see other poor buggers who hadn’t made it collapsed on the side of the road led not moving from sheer exhaustion
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‘But …’ he collapses onto the bench all the wind taken out of his sails
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sticks his weapon in Russ’ stomach, Russ deftly steps aside, grabs the barrel of the gun, gives the soldier a firm knee in the groin, snatches away the weapon, as the soldier collapses in a heap on the highway
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John collapses on his side, grabs his head where the man hit him, sees that it is bleeding
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When I see Rose my resolve not to tell anyone nearly collapses, but the thought of how horrified she would be stops me and I merely feel a traitress as she gives me a quick hug and says she hopes I feel better soon
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Eventually, the negative energy vortex collapses in an
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collapses without this one key thing in place
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the road or every bridge that collapses
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Originally Gnomes hollowed parts of it out secretly, but they would be killed in the collapses
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Jayson’s body wavers slightly then collapses in the water
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“Experience tells us that when the leadership of a revolution are removed, the rest of the movement quickly collapses
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If the bubble collapses, so does your memory
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All those gender-confused sycophants will surely be thrilled, that is, until the day our economy collapses due to concentration by the powers that be on this frivolous nonsense rather than paying our way and making it work
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collapses and they’re released from the distortion, they’ll be active again
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Canada has never had a banking crash, compared to the US, which had sixteen financial collapses
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Cotton price collapses might be the only thing to lead to abolishing slavery
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On the Great Recession, her husband’s deregulation played a major role in the housing and banking collapses
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so naive! When America’s financial empire collapses, we should have
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Marlene collapses in giggles
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The Dauntless man screams and collapses, his hands clutching his leg, which gives Tobias the opportunity to shoot him in the head
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Susan collapses to the ground, crying, and Caleb crouches next to her
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He collapses with a scream, and I am exposed
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If the fuel pool collapses or runs dry, the world will be contaminated with
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the head of the revolution, the body, or followers, melt away, and the revolution collapses
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and mathematically, the wave function collapses
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Blood spurts in bursts from the wound, and after a few seconds the man collapses
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The Administrator collapses on top of the tomb that is now marked «1798–2212»
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He loses control of his body and collapses on what is now a luminescent scarlet grave
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super-volcanoes are so large that the Earth collapses inward after
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How much the more so when an entire government collapses overnight with no mechanism of succession in
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The emeralds begin to sing, something Ralph has never heard before, and he collapses to the earth, beaten and exhausted
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The Overlord collapses sideways, still gasping for breath
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TR was a class three star and, after reviewing the information your sensors picked up about its collapse, it’s not unlike other star collapses that happen every so often
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When weak measurements are made by our brains, the ‘empty-void’ collapses into an ocean of waves — with a positive and negative crest
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The segment of the wavefunction that collapses is therefore determined by the content of our memory directly or indirectly through our interactions with an observing system — in our case, our senses
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Physicists now believe that it is the generation of useful information by a detector in an experiment which collapses the wave function
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This collapses the wave-function trapping the locus of awareness of observers in this or that universe
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When the perfect symmetry of the superposed-void is ‘disturbed,’ it collapses and manifests as this or that, left-handed or right-handed universe — which counter-balance each other
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collapses towards the center, and while it contracts it heats up
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collapses, the reversed Zeeman effect takes place The field of conscious-
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The poor donkey collapses from exhaustion
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As soon as someone depends on the conditioned mind for knowing, not-knowing is lost and emergent enlightenment collapses
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it’s too late and everything collapses
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Now, when Ur is at its greatest need, all social, economic, military and religious structure collapses
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A wall ahead of you collapses into the path, a cloud of dust blocks the way
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With time, the horse collapses and dies
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Can’t there? Everyone you know in the front row, the entire hemispherical sky-movie collapses onto your head
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When he whipped his line back, the hooked claw pulled away from the rest of the hand like a head that has been sliced clean off its neck but does not roll free until the body collapses
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I tumble out of the cave just as it collapses, sealing my family in the tunnels, and me on the wrong side
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She fell over like a giant tree collapses in the woods after a storm, slowly at first and then with growing momentum
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laying out the role Goldman has played in our past economic collapses and
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It means, first of all, the human brain is the observer that collapses the wave function that I talked about in chapter five, since quantum physics says it is the observer that changes an electron from a wave into a particle
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“There is a good possibility they are impassible from collapses,” Alan
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The guy is pulled back and falls with his head on the windowsill where he collapses
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Ghalid is staring surprised at his chest from where an arrow-like object is sticking out and collapses
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His upper body collapses, bouncing on the roof before it is finally pushed out by the hysterical women inside as the vehicle struggles over the rough ground
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Century catches him before he collapses
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The big man collapses dead with his eyes still wide open and the spear inside him
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It follows suit of its companion and collapses to the ground
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She readies herself for battle but then suddenly collapses
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This is not America when banks and Wall Street cause economic collapses and no one pays any fines or suffers any time in jail
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Remove it, and the structure collapses
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Workers may have made decent wages to descend into the coalmines, but at what cost? Explosions and collapses in the mines and black lung disease cut short the lives of many of the miners
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Method®, applying it more, and doing more of the collapses that he
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won’t come and the whole venture collapses
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Don,t lie there do do it again as his body collapses down again
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Wat collapses onto the remaining divan, though, and asks himself in tears ‘What Have I done to deserve this? Is it my drinking and joking, or does Di need a better man than me
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He collapses on top of me both of us with labored breathing
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which encourages over dependence, and then collapses completely, because it fails to adapt
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The sledge falls, and he collapses onto it
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of itself as it collapses to the floor
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Once it collapses
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Action, both physical and mental, are only the wave forms that once perceived from a perspective of stillness collapses into the quantum singularity of eternity
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Given that market collapses cannot be predicted with any accuracy,
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As the earth continues to turn against us humans; and our materialistic society collapses as its short-term profit- (rather than long-term survival-) oriented mechanisms are increasingly unable to adequately respond to the crisis; this original form of cognition will revindicate itself
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Even unity flees this flow and energy collapses beneath a ground unfluctuating
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speak and the void collapses
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Our collapses are stress triggered due to stress fatigue resulting from disease arising from environmental maladaptation: an organism’s desynchronization from its bio-virons and a mis-synchronization with the digi-viron
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When a mass collapses into this roiling writhe of being tortured with one’s own impotence to satiate one’s appetites, either its governors must lead this ravenous wrath into a war of revenge or it shall rend the State with its agonizing throes of self-dismembering rebellion
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This social cascade of selves into a memetically viral movement can lead to catastrophic collapses of divergent companion consciousnesses into collective monopolies of single subject self-interest:
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Denovation – where the gravity of a culture collapses into a brute force hole – can be seen in the avalanche of ingenious infortain-me-techno trivialities and entreP2Peneurial trinkshit, where the brute force of business survival accelerates the conception and manufacture of endless gadgetry and consumer services
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Wherever there is ownership protected by law and enforced by gun, the gravity of GovCorp collapses social evolution into a synchronized orbit with Money World
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So, if the economy collapses there will be no money for changing to greener systems and sustainability
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First, there is a dark cloud, and then this cloud condenses and collapses on itself, then, as the result of tremendous pressure, it reaches a temperature of millions of degrees
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She proceeds with more blows as the glass collapses inward
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He collapses into it, sulking
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As the van disappears down the driveway the headless body finally collapses
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When it starts up again she bursts into tears and runs and runs and doesn’t stop until she collapses on her bed in her room
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The story collapses around him as even some of the younger kids are thrown out of the magic and wrinkle their foreheads in confusion over whether anything they just heard was true
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She collapses under him, arms dropped and sprawled over her head, body limp, her chest swelling with every labored breath
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With tears of joy in her eyes for the fact that she is no longer beneath a canopy of creatures that could descend at any moment and feed on her, Mary collapses to her knees and cries as though she has never cried before
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She collapses to her knees—then, slowly, curls up into a ball and wishes for the world to drown away
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Her fears, her doubts, her insecurities, her pains, sorrows and frustrations—she implicates all of these things, and more, into the flames that cast the world afire, and it is no surprise when in but a moment the nameless thing that was so tall and imposing with yellow eyes and a serpentine face collapses into nothing
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Defeated, at last, by both the elements and her emotions, she collapses in the middle of the road
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below the victim; so that when the victim collapses, he is
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Willie skids to a halt and collapses on the road in defeat
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The coyote member collapses as the enemy member
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The only time I make an exception is if the game collapses immediately after the first shot
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If there’s a single massive shock to the system before we can get tangible growth in the global economy, by that I mean in productive, real things, not magicked debt, then the entire system collapses
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The fields are grown over with weeds, the farmhouse is falling apart, and the fences are collapsing all around
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John looks back, sees the balcony and house collapsing simultaneously
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The house was collapsing
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daddy on the brink of collapsing
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The most obvious ones had already lost their rooves, collapsing over the centuries, so they’d be useless in bad weather and anything hidden inside would have been ruined
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It certainly looks as though the fault for the current collapsing walls lies firmly in their court
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They had to push forward almost as far as they could reach, without collapsing face down on the planks, then pull back to their starting position
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Kev was all in, half collapsing onto the chair; he allowed Chrissie to dish a plate of the stew for him
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He looked at his feet expecting them to do something then, without any warning, crumpled at the knees, collapsing in a heap at the feet of the policeman
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A whimper escapes her as she again stands in the hall, all her self-control and emotional management collapsing as she is whisked back to that moment
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But there was a problem: the once-raging American economy was collapsing
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As a sun I believe, collapsing interstellar hydrogen until it undergoes nuclear reactions
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Kendal’s fist landed squarely on Mila’s head, collapsing half her skull, snapping her neck and folding her head back behind her shoulders
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And the ancient machines would finally reach their breaking points after many minutes, collapsing into heaps upon the floor
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After collapsing out of exhaustion and hunger, she presently found herself far from the cave and the Dwemer ruins she and Mercer had just escaped
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He raised himself just enough to push the button for the ground floor before collapsing back into his chair
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The world was collapsing around us, but we lived out in the country and nothing reached us for a long, long time
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The collapsing and packing of the shelter went without incident, although for the first time they discovered a faint frost on the fabric
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“Yon Officer is a pillock what the fucks he on about with his bloody stones in a week’s time this lot will have collapsed into the sea”, we all burst out laughing at the thought of the pier collapsing and disappearing below the waves
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Sebastian wasn’t conscious to see the cave collapsing inward or the Guardians and Arrows plunging into the wreckage
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Collapsing satisfied onto his hairy chest she half complained
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Jimmy entered the small terraced house, imagined himself collapsing on his comfortable chair
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His legs became weak, collapsing, and nausea
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The difficulty was in trying to prevent the sides from collapsing, constantly patting all around with his spade, but done with too much force risked the structural integrity
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” Manna agreed, dropping his pack against a wall and collapsing against it, closing his eyes
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She wanted Sicarius to have confidence in her, not worry about her collapsing
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collapsing on her couch
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A good idea to be sure, but it also meant that white males in South Africa cannot legally be hired into 97% of available jobs, which simply means whites are not employable, and since skill plays no role in hiring, the whole country’s infrastructure is rapidly collapsing causing widespread rioting
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He dropped, hitting first with his heels and collapsing onto his back
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The hovercraft smashed into the supporting girders of the roller coaster and the creaking, tearing groans of a main stanchion collapsing was followed by a tremendous bang as a large section of the ride toppled to one side, raining metal and wood onto the people below
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“Dawn, you here?” he shouted, collapsing into fits of coughing again
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When they finally had him lying on the mattress, they were both so breathless they couldn’t talk, collapsing in the chairs
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which simply means they are not employed, and since skills play no role in appointments, the whole system is collapsing
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Knowing where I was, I attempted to continue to reach my destination, but the road was blocked with huge stones because many buildings were in danger of collapsing
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» Hives shrugged his shoulders as though that particular action was beyond his comprehension, then, collapsing back onto the stretcher again, moaned, «Get me Shooter, I want Shooter, I want to go to hospital
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A huge willow tree had fallen, collapsing the bank, and partially damming the river
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Makis had staggered back about three in the morning, collapsing into the tepee with a grunt, out cold
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The government’s death knell was actually sounded six months earlier, on December 23, 1977, just prior to midnight when a violent earthquake struck Managua, collapsing half the buildings and burying thousands of people below rubble
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A collapsing economy could lead to a surplus of slaves, class conflict, and thus more slave uprisings and brutality to keep down those uprisings
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Payne kept up the pressure and the man slowly stopped struggling, collapsing down onto his knees
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Some structures were held up with reinforcing to stop them collapsing, others you could walk through
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sawed-off, collapsing behind the bar
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Neither Araltall nor Ebira could find coherence in the story and ended up, as had she, collapsing in laughter
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Al has never looked small before, but he does now, with his shoulders slumped and his body collapsing on itself like crumpled paper
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If I go to join my parents, I want to carry with me a good reason, not this—this senseless collapsing at the threshold
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collapsing in on itself in an explosion of noise
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hitting towns and cities with thunderous blows, toppling and collapsing many older
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risked the whole thing collapsing and crushing the woman
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Lina then burst into flames collapsing to the ground turned to ash
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When my thighs began to spasm however, I pulled off, collapsing
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for a long as you can walk without collapsing on the
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The State is collapsing into a speck—a pathetic and insignificant grain of nothingness
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But, alas, the Colony is collapsing
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nihilates itself without completely collapsing under the weight of
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collapsing in pain with this ongoing complaint
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Talia had sharply struck the back of his knee with the heel of her hand, painlessly collapsing his leg and almost tumbling him to the floor
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“Dammit, I need three seconds to figure this out and my Shields are collapsing!!!” he frantically called
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Only Shobal struggled to rise to Moshe’s greeting, collapsing into the outstretched
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“Ah—I—she—” My chest felt as if it was collapsing
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Simon slid down the wall, collapsing to his knees on the floor
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other calamities ensue, resulting in the society collapsing in on
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atoms must condense around a gravitational center to the point of collapsing
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A collapsing star was completely out of his control
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«Point all our major scanners to the collapsing star and everything around it within a click
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I’ll send you over more specific notes on this but let me just say that collapsing a star artificially is not within the practical limits of known technology
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On the other hand, a ‘strong measurement’ attempts to be highly accurate in each observation — immediately collapsing the wavefunction to this or that actuality
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clutching something in our hands and almost collapsing with laugher as we jumped into the
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hitting the towers, and the towers eventually collapsing, sending giant clouds of dust, ash and
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pinch, collapsing to form nodes, which give rise to vortexes within our
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The collapsing material becomes warmer, and its pressure increases
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Now, the core consists of a collapsing ball of neutrons
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If one’s tongue is kept from collapsing, it is less likely that the
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She kept it from collapsing on her and Luke just with her own strength
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and everything was collapsing again with unknown
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“I was sleeping soundly by a fountain when I was nearly crushed by a collapsing catapult
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Thousands of bodies collapsing make the oddest sound in the world
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The comedy of a single dimensional section of The Giant Mess That The Universe Is collapsing or exploding into nothingness… it’s… well, it’s priceless
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On and on your laughter echoes, shattering the stillness of the perfect void, collapsing it, and everything (which is nothing) in it, to a single point, shredding it into an infinite number of pieces and an oxymoron that become… all there is
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motion, collapsing to join Gary on the floor
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He dragged himself upstairs and knelt for two hours in front of the photograph of his father, ending with a fervent prayer for the eternal souls of Vaselly and his catamite, before collapsing onto the empty bed
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pointing to his head and collapsing and it seemed to be in an
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He gave a cry before collapsing
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Phnom Penh, which had a pre-war population of around 600,000, was overwhelmed by refugees (who continued to flood in from the steadily collapsing defence perimeter), growing to a size of around two million
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My loss!…My loss! – everything was collapsing around him
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She would have found out why he was there…Unless he…Gomes stood still and shook his head…It was unthinkable…Had Vasquez gone into the house to have sex with Maria or even worse to rape her? Gomes felt as if the world were collapsing around him
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This is called collapsing the wave function
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Collapsing the wave function can be very successfully explained and predicted mathematically, using complex quantum mathematics; but it‘s very hard to describe in simple English
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So where are these electrons living as waves of possibilities when no one is observing them and collapsing their wave function into a particle? The answer to that question has gone through a lot of revision over the years, and has been called a lot of things as the research has progressed, including:
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“Lot’s of meat,” Beth said collapsing into another round of
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in the rain, collapsing into bed after a hectic day,
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Accompanied by the sound of escaping air a loop of small intestine blew out of the six inch gash in the heaving bull‘s flank coincidental with his rear end collapsing on the savage hog
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When the cavern was collapsing, I clawed my way through and got through
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Realising his lung is collapsing, he starts to swear as anger fills his face
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There was sound and recoil and a shattered window collapsing on
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A vision overpowered my mind, collapsing my body before I reached the stairwell
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He turned off the light and sighed with relief as he closed his eyes while collapsing down onto the bed
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Believe me I came very close to collapsing
collapse (v, n): to fall down suddenly because of pressure or having no strength or support; the sudden failure of a system, organization, business, etc.
Use “collapse” in a sentence
| The roof collapsed on top of me. |
| The country’s economy is about to collapse. |
| The country’s economy is about to collapse. |
| The church roof is in danger of collapse.
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Definition of Collapse
to fall down suddenly due to pressure
Examples of Collapse in a sentence
The reasons for the sudden collapse of the Mayan civilization is still unknown.
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After much pressure from the higher-ups, the hopes that company change would occur seemed to collapse.
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It took a wrecking ball as well as explosives to get the sturdy foundation to fully collapse.
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Feeling the bridge sway under them, the drivers were terrified that it was about to collapse under them.
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Exhausted and out of breath, the tired runner was afraid was afraid her lungs would collapse under pressure.
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