Sentence examples for a spate of breakdowns from inspiring English sources

In these books, too, she examined a spate of breakdowns — of communication, of relationships, of families, of sanity — and the often turbulent psyches that lay beneath her characters' calcified British middle-class exteriors.

Those failures were similar to the basic mechanical breakdowns, electrical shorts and software flaws that led to a spate of recent failures in launchings of commercial booster rockets for lifting satellites into space and in the test program for Thaad, which is a less ambitious antimissile system that is meant to protect troops.

A lot of breakdowns".

Freshman Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) recently defended his state's request of millions of dollars in disaster relief from the Federal Emergency Management Agency following a spate of devastating flooding, calling into question the consistency of the Tea Party-backed senator's stance on the breakdown of state and federal powers.

A spate of Q.&A.

There was a spate of such letters.

But a spate of research says otherwise.

There has been a spate of assassinations.

In 1970, after a spate of F.L.Q.

A spate of gang shootings.

This followed a spate of suicide bombings and shooting attacks.