Sentence examples for tend to collapse from inspiring English sources

In a fire, the floors tend to collapse, and the iron frame loses strength and implodes.

Currency unions tend to collapse as part of a broader political break-up.

If their surfaces had a uniform surface tension, small alveoli would tend to collapse into large ones.

"The history of tiers in the cable industry is that over time they tend to collapse," he said.

In the first, nonpolar solvent, the polar segments tend to collapse, but the bulky nonpolar groups, easily soluble in the medium, create some cavities in the polymer.

The gist is that humans tend to collapse what happened in their past with the story that they tell about what happened in the past.

Researchers have printed with live cells before, but until now they only made tiny pieces of gelatinous living material, both because large structures tended to collapse and because the cells inside tended to die from lack of oxygen.

In mid-term elections, the turnout of independents tends to collapse, leaving only partisans voting.

At alkaline pH values they tended to collapse excluding a significant quantity of the incorporated water.

That model worked in some small towns like Crested Butte, Colo., but tended to collapse quickly in urban environments.

Without them, the ecosystem tends to collapse; the coastal reefs become barren, and soon not much lives there.