Sentence examples for collapse in a cloud from inspiring English sources
Viewers around the world later watched the most visible symbol of the North's nuclear ambitions collapse in a cloud of shattered concrete.
Politicians and officials of every rank have gobbled up the institutions of government until they resemble wooden pillars devoured by termites: the gentlest push makes them collapse in a cloud of dust.
Everyone who loses a home is struck by how much is gone, and also by what remains: a carpet preserved by leaking water from a ruptured water pipe; books, ghost-white with every page intact, until you touch them and they collapse in a cloud of ash.
"I saw the beginning of the top moving down, and the whole thing collapsed in a cloud of smoke," Mr. Levy said.
On a quiet residential street in the middle-class neighborhood of Saibag, everything was left standing except for one four-story apartment building that collapsed in a cloud of dust when the earthquake struck.
At ground zero, the centre of the seven-storey embassy lifted up hundreds of feet into the air, remained suspended for what seemed an eternity, and then collapsed in a cloud of dust, people, splintered furniture and paper.
You may flash on that day when a building collapses here in a cloud of dust, or when firemen douse some flames, but those resemblances belong more rightly to our memories than to what we see unfolding on screen.
You can soak in a hot tub under the stars before collapsing into a cloud-comfortable bed in a cottage in the pines at Ten Thousand Waves' Houses of the Moon, 3451 Hyde Park Road, (505) 992-5003, fax (505) 992-5030; www.tenthousandwaves.com.
The hasty marriage was brief, and when it collapsed Frances disappeared in a cloud of scandalous rumors, leaving her children in the care of their grandmother.
There are the moments of pure cinema: a soldier whose gaze follows the bombers flying overhead, a multistory factory that collapses into rubble in a cloud of dust and flame.
