Examples of collide in a Sentence
Shania Russell, EW.com, 1 Apr. 2024
By the time the fog had parted, the ships were set to collide.
—Zoe Sottile, CNN, 31 Mar. 2024
Shocking video showed the moment a massive cargo ship collided with Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge early Tuesday morning, sending parts of the decades-old suspension bridge, along with people and vehicles, into the Patapsco River.
—Kerry Breen, CBS News, 27 Mar. 2024
Details are still scant on what might have caused a giant container ship to collide with Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge early Tuesday, sending the span crashing into the water.
—Jackie Northam, NPR, 27 Mar. 2024
The Key Bridge partially collapsed early Tuesday morning after a massive cargo ship collided with one of the bridge's support columns, sending vehicles into the Patapsco River below and leaving six people unaccounted for, according to officials.
—Leah Sarnoff, ABC News, 27 Mar. 2024
Topline The remains of two of the six people believed to have been killed in the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse in Baltimore have been recovered from the Patapsco River, officials said Wednesday, one day after a container ship collided into the interstate bridge, causing its sudden destruction.
—Brian Bushard, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2024
The Francis Scott Key truss bridge collapsed when the MV Dali cargo ship collided with one of the bridge supports.
—David Gilbert, WIRED, 27 Mar. 2024
Badie added that the bridge was built in the 1970s, when the size and load of weight of the vessels crossing beneath the bridge were much smaller than the vessel that collided with the bridge today.
—NBC News, 27 Mar. 2024
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Word History
Latin collidere, from com- + laedere to injure by striking
1700, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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“Collide.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/collide. Accessed 16 Apr. 2024.
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