Sentence examples for collapsed off from inspiring English sources

Almost immediately Cavendish collapsed off his bike with exhaustion but he had his soigneur on hand to help him and after a quick drink he was soon back on his feet.

Historic value offers no protection from the cruel reality of mother nature, so when the storm hit it collapsed off its pilings into the water and took a nice little float towards Canada.

The switching mechanism on electrically switchable oligopeptide surfaces is based on conformational changes between collapsed ("OFF" state) and fully extended ("ON" state) oligopeptide structures.

All the considerable experimental data, taken together with detailed computational work, support a switching mechanism in which biomolecular interactions are controlled by conformational changes between fully extended ("ON" state) and collapsed ("OFF" state) oligopeptide conformer structures.

Fisheries collapsed off the coast of South America.

An oil rig collapsed off the coast of Louisiana and Mississippi, tipping drilling equipment and 41 workers into the Gulf of Mexico.

To Ruprecht's baffled horror, Skippy collapses off his chair.

Homes were pulled off their foundations, caskets were washed out of a cemetery and a bridge over the White River collapsed, cutting off one section of town from another.

Crops and shrimp farms flooded, and 13 bridges collapsed, cutting off access for coffee exporters.

Until, in 1970, Penn Central, the country's sixth-biggest company, collapsed, touching off a tempest.

A year later, Lehman Brothers collapsed, setting off the global financial crisis and a precipitous decline in the demand for legal services.