Sentence examples for collapsed under its from inspiring English sources

A cloud of gas has lots of potential energy; if it collapsed under its own gravity, it would convert that into some other form of energy.

Some of them remember the first year of the Clinton presidency, when an economic stimulus package got so piled up with pork and well-meaning but not necessarily critical social programs that it collapsed under its own weight.

But it collapsed under its own weight in October 2017 and several options to repair or replace it were considered.

A marble sculpture of a poppy in Royal Wootton Bassett has been significantly damaged after it collapsed under its own weight.

"We had to scale," Hagewood says, "otherwise we couldn't keep it – it would've collapsed under its own weight.

My in tray was so full it had collapsed under its own weight.

If an object hadn't gravitationally grown to a sufficient density so that it would collapse under its own power by then, it never will.

If a massive enough gas cloud collapses under its own gravity, it should form a black hole directly, without any intervening star.

Too often, piling more reality onto a fragile ad hoc program makes it collapse under its own weight.

Is there an inherent flaw in a system whereby everything gets bigger and bigger until it collapses under its own weight?

When enough gas gets concentrated in a single location, it collapses under its own gravity.