Sentence examples for collapse spectacularly from inspiring English sources

Fans cannot have forgotten that they beat Juventus in Turin last November, only to collapse spectacularly thereafter.

Enron, once the country's seventh-largest company, introduced its modern trading floor on national television and boasted of its ambition to be the world's leading energy company, only to collapse spectacularly in 2001 and set off a wave of investigations into corporate malfeasance.

With so much time lost to the weather, a draw appears the only realistic result unless Lancashire collapse spectacularly on the final morning or skittle Leicestershire after setting them a target.

In reality, the Silver bridge collapsed, spectacularly, a year later, just before Christmas 1967.

This practice resulted in unbelievable wealth disparities (the Gilded Age) and collapsed spectacularly in the Great Depression.

British Gas' attempt at being "open and transparent" with customers also collapsed spectacularly with their PR offensive becoming merely offensive.

The Minnesota Vikings, whose roof on their current home, the Metrodome, collapsed spectacularly last winter, are no different.

They collapsed spectacularly in 1997, as a chain reaction of currency devaluations, bankruptcies and recessions rocked East Asia.

It collapsed spectacularly in 2007 after it emerged that it had dealt in stolen art and defrauded its clients in a Madoffian manner for years.

REMEMBER those Albanian pyramids, offering gullible investors outlandishly high rates of interest, frantically sucking in new deposits to repay old debts, then collapsing spectacularly and creating civil unrest?

Enron also collapsed spectacularly after accounting fiddles that seemed to have raised barely a peep from outside directors.Most directors never approach these levels of negligence.