Sentence examples for collapse about from inspiring English sources

The political parties collapse about us, one rent by quarrels, the other stumbling leaderless.

Bajeux points to a copy of Jared Diamond's book "Collapse," about how civilizations come to an end.

Last year he was asked by government officials investigating the financial collapse about the bank's investment in toxic assets.

Allow dough to rise at room temperature until it begins to collapse, about 2 hours; longer rising times (even overnight) will not harm dough.

A familiar story line suggested that Kushner Companies was on the brink of collapse, about to be brought down by an over-leveraged building.

Why did the towers initially withstand the impacts of jetliners without tipping over like felled oaks but then collapse, about an hour later, in two deadly implosions?

Kazakhs were a minority in their homeland.When the Soviet Union collapsed, about 800,000 ethnic Germans and more than 1m Russians left the newly independent Kazakhstan.

G. Chris Gleason, of Clifton Park, N.Y., collapsed about a quarter-mile from the finish line.

The blasts collapsed about a dozen homes into piles of brick.

The original entrance to the cave had collapsed about 30,000 years ago, sealing off the contents.

As he later wrote, "The whole romantic structure of fallacious beliefs, already rocking dangerously, collapsed about me, leaving me dazed".