Sentence examples for collapsing things from inspiring English sources

I loved collapsing things.

If you were born after 1960, Mr. Packer suggests, you have spent much of your life watching structures long in place collapsing — things like farms, factories, subdivisions and public schools on the one hand, and "ways and means in Washington caucus rooms, taboos on New York trading desks" and "manners and morals everywhere" on the other.

Referring to its emphasis, he said the film was also about "fading institutions of folk art, old buildings that are collapsing, things which we should be protecting — which are a part of our heritage".

Cheever grew up in a world of elegance and finery (an 11-bedroom 19th-century house, black-tie dances, a Buick sedan) but when his father's lucrative shoe business collapsed, things fell apart.

In 1984, when the market for pc technology collapsed, things looked just as bad.

After another failure from their openers and a middle-order collapse, things had looked ominous for them.

Some claim that international human rights norms undid the Soviet empire, while others say that it declined and fell because of political mismanagement and economic collapse — things that seem much more prevalent in the West than in China now.

25 min: A couple of scrums, and it's a penalty to Ireland, the Scots penalised for collapsing the thing.

Although the Bengals have played more respectably in recent weeks, they still collapse when things go wrong.

"I understand the value of being the underdog, but aren't England and Australia overdoing it a bit in their 'my collapse is bigger than your collapse' thing?" writes Robin Hazlehurst.

And they failed on that financial collapse thing,” Newmark protested.