Sentence examples for sort of collision from inspiring English sources

This, he goes on, creates exactly the sort of collision of cultures and classes that often yields new ideas.

That is the sort of collision that crumpled the first marriage of Cathryn Hinderliter, a preacher's daughter from Tulsa.

Petty Officer Rives said the tugboat, the Shelby Weeks, was moving the barge under the railroad bridge when there was some sort of collision.

As the next elevator platform descends, the mood gets tense: it's getting uncomfortably close to Jason, and any sort of collision could be catastrophic, potentially severing the communication cable or breaking fragile pieces of equipment.

It's that sort of collision of the right to privacy (of information about you) and freedom of information (for people to know about what you've done) that came to the fore in this case.

With Revelator, I know all these crazy sort of collisions were happening at the time, and part of it was that we were living in Nashville and Dave and I are so nocturnal.

The Folkestone Triennial leads one into all sorts of collisions of place and time.

Murray and Federer spent most of the summer trading titles, as if on some sort of cosmic collision course.

By the Earl of Shaftesbury's reckoning, "We polish one another, and rub off our corners and rough sides by a sort of amicable collision".

The unlikely alliance between a rock musician from New Hampshire and a dancehall artist from Jamaica is the sort of cultural collision that could only have happened in Brooklyn.

In practice the road is so busy and the travelling speeds so varied that the drivers of overtaking vehicles are on a sort of continuous collision course, playing a head-on game of chicken.