Sentence examples for collide violently from inspiring English sources
The phalanx of brass seems to split apart and collide violently.
Set in Suffolk and London, it is the intricately entwined story of two very different men whose lives collide violently.
But these self-styled militiamen, cult leaders, doomsday prophesiers and polygamists usually pop into the American consciousness only when they collide violently with the outside world.
As the mother of a son, I know that 14 is an age of hormonal turbulence, a time when adult needs and feelings collide violently with childhood, when kids experiment with identity, fashion, smoking, alcohol and, yes, sex.
Whom Jock chooses to madden, he first marries -- or promises to, anyway -- so the claustrophobic narrative is thick with wives and would-be wives all over London who have fallen prey to Jock Lewis (or Jeff Leigh or Jerry Leach, as this raffish predator is also known) and whose lives are about to collide violently.
However, the deuterium and tritium nuclei must be confined in powerful magnetic fields and heated to temperatures reaching 100 million degrees Celsius before they collide violently enough to fuse.
But the "publish or perish" mentality of academia collides violently with these ideals.
The two sides simmered uneasily along, resentment mounting on each side, until Feb. 12, 1863, when Confederate and Unionist loyalties collided violently at the Bond Schoolhouse, near Yadkin's Deep Creek Friends meeting house.
The peak of anti-whaling activity here was in 1994, when the environmental group Greenpeace International sent speedboats to block harpoon gunners and a ship of the California-based Sea Shepherd Conservation Society collided violently with a Norwegian Coast Guard vessel.
By simply plugging in my iPod headphones I can make all the surrounding pedestrians disappear — a far cry from the morning commutes in Manhattan that I can't complete without colliding violently with at least three fellow travelers.
"Because of the conditions we identified near Zeta Leporis," said Dr. Michael Jura, the U.C.L.A. astronomy professor, "we believe that the dust around this star may contain asteroids that appear to be colliding violently with each other".
