Sentence examples for clash as from inspiring English sources

During normal speech, the vocal cords clash about a hundred times a second in men and two hundred times in women; in an operatic soprano, they clash as many as a thousand times a second.

Thus interpreted, Horn's principles would clash as often as Grice's.[24] Without having any independent means of determining which force will "prevail" in any given case, Horn's principles would have no predictive or explanatory value.

He produced one, showing a slimmer eagle, which would not clash as much with the reverse wreath.

This is as much a legal clash as a cultural clash.

Interviewed after the race Grosjean, however, dismissed the clash as a racing incident.

Bergkamp has described the clash as an "accident", saying he was protecting the ball.

In February there was another clash as police entered a neighbouring village, Govindpur, and started dismantling betel vines.

Indeed, the rival energy-trading executive today predicted "a huge culture clash" as the Houston neighbors merge.

Wednesday's game promises to be a quintessential culture clash as much about football philosophy as national customs.

You could parse their clash as a grownup debate on the politics of governance, but it's really not.

He knew that interests would always clash; as his presidential years went by, his goal was to ameliorate party differences, not eliminate them, since elimination was impossible.