Sentence examples for like a collapse from inspiring English sources

An oil crisis is one of those shocks, like a collapse of the euro, that could derail the recovery.

The effect of these inclinations, Libeskind said, should be above all physical: "It's like a collapse, isn't it?

To hear her now resort to weird mimesis, echoing hollow, boring expressions of lust — "Mmm" — feels like a collapse of imagination, and of honesty.

By Amanda Petrusich September 5, 2017 The new single echoes hollow, boring expressions of lust, feeling like a collapse of imagination and honesty.

But the commissioner said monitoring showed that the amount of water leaking had not increased since 2002 and did not pose the risk of an emergency, like a collapse.

If you watch the Heat a lot, or have spent the season chronicling its players' lapses into immaturity, alternately ignoring and lauding their beleaguered coach, walking a fine line between style and substance, it looked a lot like a collapse.

The floor juts into the audience like a collapsing pier, two beds clinging to the edge.

As Maud gets older her spine contracts even more; she's like a collapsing star, still exuding brightness before she burns out.

In the second inning, three-hundred-pound Prince Fielder, the Tiger first baseman, rounded third and came home like a collapsing dune, and was tagged out there on the seat of his pants after a dandy relay from Marco Scutaro.

Then he showed the right way: your knuckles folded in over the bulb, and loosely labile, ready to roll, the knife then taking little swipes at the shallots, as your knuckles recede like a collapsing Confederate line.

"Die Another Day," for instance, is the first Bond movie to make extensive use of computer-generated effects -- like a collapsing glacier -- although it still has several scenes built around live-action stunts, like a mud-splattered hovercraft battle.