Your English writing platform
Discover LudwigThe phrase 'I collided with' is correct and usable in written English
You can use it when you need to express that you had a physical encounter with something. For example, "I collided with the wall and dropped my phone on the ground."
Exact(12)
Last winter, I was riding to work when I collided with an auto-rickshaw.
Exiting one concert, I collided with a painter who was touching up the other side of a door.
Every time I turned a corner I collided with a slobbering cow, or a gold-wrapped corpse on a stretcher.
After a career-ending knee injury in '86 at the age of 25, when I collided with a teammate during practice, I came to Los Angeles for rehab.
As London's oldest restaurant, Rules gets its fair share of the grown-up, wealthier tourist trade (last time I went, I collided with original supermodel Janice Dickinson), but it's still home to real Londoners, many of whom look as though they've taken a brief hiatus from starring in a Punch cartoon.
Forbidden to ride as a child (her mother equated it with other "sensual" pleasures), De Beauvoir learned in occupied Paris using the bike of her lover, Nathalie Sorokine: "I really handled it with ease, except one time I crashed into a dog and another time I collided with two women, and I was very happy".
Similar(45)
Usually I don't even realise I'm doing it until I collide with an inanimate object or an unfortunate passerby.
And the next time I go for a doughnut run, I hope I collide with Ms. Fisher's Berliners, soft and white, filled with cinnamon-schnapps cream and served over a rewardingly complex chocolate ganache.
The cushion on my chair was given me by my daughter Emily, as was the spoon and fork mobile that hangs behind my head, startling me with its sweet chime when I collide with it.
Another time, when things weren't going well with me, I woke in the night and feared she might be suicidally depressed; when I rushed into the hall, I nearly collided with her, hurrying toward me with her arms held wide and a look of rescue in her eyes.
I once collided with Barry Bonds while turning a corner; he was solid like a wall and very tall.
Write better and faster with AI suggestions while staying true to your unique style.
Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

Justyna Jupowicz-Kozak
CEO of Professional Science Editing for Scientists @ prosciediting.com