Sentence examples for collide against from inspiring English sources

Worlds -- and species -- collide against Louisa Thompson's colorful, Matisse-style set.

And it keeps floating, as Oscar's memories of his recent past start to collide against memories of his more distant past, particularly his childhood with Linda.

The prose is often clumsy, and Anna is too obviously the bearer of the author's grievances, as in the passage in which the prince wonders "whether this magnificent creature whom he had grown to know so well of late, with her poetic, pure demands of life, her religious inclination, and her noble ideals, would collide against his egotistical, carnal love and his spent existence".

When the channel is alternatively illuminated by light sources installed at both ends, the plankton escape from the light because of their anti-phototaxis and collide against the fin, resulting in actuation of the float.

The highest deposition rates are found for the largest particles (1 - 10 μm), which are governed mostly by gravity and tend to deposit on horizontal surfaces, and for the smallest particles (0.01 - 0.1 μm), which are mostly governed by Brownian motion and tend to diffuse and collide against floor, walls or ceiling.

At almost the same time that back-arc spreading ceased (about 15 Ma), the IBA started to collide against the Honshu arc due to the northwestward movement of the PHS plate and back-arc opening of the Sea of Japan (Takahashi and Saito 1997).

His thoughts circled and collided against themselves.

Farther south, another series of blocks collided against the continent.

But those principles lately have collided against the need to find new revenue to support the state.

When the oceanic crust was totally consumed, subduction ceased and a series of small continental blocks collided against the western side of the continent.

Just as a passenger on a motorbike would slide in his seat and bump into his rider when he brakes without warning, a blow to the head causes the skull to shift and the brain to catch up before colliding against it.