Sentence examples for may be crushed from inspiring English sources

Farther out, oxygen is sucked from the air and people may be crushed by a pressure wave.

If the vacuum is sufficiently great, the body of the diver may be crushed and sucked up into the helmet.

Stem ends may be crushed with a mallet instead, but clean cuts make it easier to impale branches on a needle holder.

"The olives come from somewhere else — Spain, Greece, Tunisia — but they may be crushed here so they call the oil Italian". Complicating matters, many of the oils are mixed with nut oil — or worse.

Wheat may be crushed with grinding stones or similar devices or by modern automated systems employing steel cylinders, followed by air purification and numerous sievings to separate the endosperm from the outer coverings and the germ.

Adults are preyed upon by fur seals (Arctocephalus), and royal penguins of all ages may be crushed by southern elephant seals (Mirounga leonina) that cross the penguin-choked beaches.

Or a good friend that you may be crushing on.

If your friend is a guy and he stops his usual loud burping or vulgar jokes, then he may be crushing on you.

The ground material is usually fairly coarse and at times may only be crushed.

Those who do so may fall to their deaths, be crushed by the landing gear or succumb to cold and lack of oxygen.

You may fall to hard and be "crushed", hence the term "crush".