How to Use collision in a Sentence

collision

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  • The car was destroyed in the collision.
  • Haraguchi screams as the shark's head slides along the side of the kayak and closer to him during the collision.
    — Alex Sundby, CBS News, 15 May 2023
  • Grover was ejected from the bike as a result of the collision.
    — City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Apr. 2024
  • The collisions occurred shortly after 8:30 a.m. about a third of the way across the bridge in the eastbound lanes.
    — Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Sep. 2023
  • Since the Olympic collision, both the Dehli and Oceana have been wrecked, and now comes the disaster to the Titanic.
    — Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 22 June 2023
  • The collision caused the Humvee to go off the road and flip into the nearby tree line, according to police.
    — Greg Wehner, Fox News, 10 Apr. 2024
  • Police have not said why the child was behind the wheel of a golf cart or if there were any adults around at the time of the deadly collision.
    — Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 18 July 2023
  • The others were treated and released, 11 at hospitals, and two at the scene of the collision.
    — Lyndsay Winkley, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Dec. 2023
  • The 46-year-old rapper sustained neck injuries in the collision, sources told TMZ.
    — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 11 Dec. 2023
  • The front tires leave the pavement and a cacophony of sand and rock collisions begins to echo through the cabin.
    — Karl Brauer, Robb Report, 17 May 2023
  • Then the enormity of the collision hit him almost as hard as the vehicle that put him there.
    — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 22 Dec. 2023
  • The force of my back hitting the wall had given me whiplash, my neck jerking forward and back after the collision.
    — Tove Danovich, The Atlantic, 6 Oct. 2023
  • Didn’t mention a head-on collision that killed the driver who swerved into his lane.
    — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 21 June 2023
  • While collisions are currently rare, the risk will increase as more pieces of debris fill space, per the ESA.
    — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Oct. 2023
  • The crash is under investigation and the cause of the collision is unknown.
    — Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 28 July 2023
  • Following the collision, the women got out of the minivan, Rowland said.
    — Emily Shapiro, ABC News, 17 Jan. 2024
  • That’d trigger an alarm to alert staff of a potential collision.
    — Matt Simon, WIRED, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Witnesses told police the collision sent Tyrone and his bike flying in the air.
    — Elliot Hughes, Journal Sentinel, 1 Sep. 2023
  • The airbag exploded in a collision, causing cuts and bruises on her face and shoulders.
    — Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN, 5 Oct. 2023
  • Authorities say he was thrown about 50 feet in the collision.
    — Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 13 Feb. 2024
  • The Infiniti was involved in a low-speed collision on McVay Road.
    — Warren Kulo | Wkulo@al.com, al, 22 June 2023
  • The Ruby Princess cruise ship is damaged following a collision with the pier in San Francisco.
    — John Ramos and Betty Yu, CBS News, 11 July 2023
  • But while there hasn’t been another major collision, all the debris and junk that’s still up there poses a tremendous threat.
    — Jaime Green, New York Times, 5 Nov. 2023
  • The driver of the vehicle, also an adult man, left the collision with only minor injuries.
    — Will McCarthy, The Mercury News, 17 Mar. 2024
  • The collision occurred in the San Diego community of Tierrasanta, near the boundary with the city of Santee.
    — Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Oct. 2023
  • Rear-End Crash Percentages Cars equipped with self-driving systems [right], had worse rear-end collision rates than those not so equipped.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 30 July 2023
  • Police said it is not believed drugs or alcohol were factors in the collision.
    — Harry Harris, The Mercury News, 13 Feb. 2024
  • However, this method won't be very practical for a collision that lasts less than a second.
    — Rhett Allain, WIRED, 24 Nov. 2023
  • State police said the impact of the collision hurled McCauley’s Tesla into a jersey wall, while the Honda crashed into a jersey wall and a light pole.
    — Danielle Douglas-Gabriel, Washington Post, 25 Nov. 2023
  • And in August 2020, a pair of Greek and Turkish warships were involved in a minor collision in the Mediterranean at a time when tensions were flaring over drilling rights there.
    — Safak Timur, New York Times, 7 Dec. 2023

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