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• The Bow Spring put by to avoid colliding with the Manzanillo II.From the entry put by
• He cheated death when his car collided with a moving train.From the entry cheat
• I could hear the screech of the brakes, then the horrible smash of cars colliding.From the entry smash
• He cringed as the bird collided with the window.From the entry cringe
• The equine escapees caused chaos bolting through the capital, colliding with vehicles and startling pedestrians.2024 April 27, Michael Hogan, “Did five frightened horses bolting through London really mean the end was neigh?”, in The Observer, →ISSN. From the entry equine
• SS Mont Blanc, a French vessel loaded with 2.9 kilotons of explosives, collided with the Imo.2022 August 24, Bruce Healey, “Wartime tunnel crash: a miraculous escape”, in RAIL, number 964, page 53. From the entry devastate
• One hypothesis is that this was a mergeburst: the scream of two stars colliding.2018 August 7, New Scientist, A Journey Through The Universe:: A traveler's guide from the center of the sun to the edge of the unknown…. From the entry mergeburst
• Down in the concourses at half-time, football and Christmas collide to make excitable children of us all.2016, Daniel Gray, Saturday, 3pm: 50 Eternal Delights of Modern Football. From the entry concourse
• When India collided with Asia (incidentally creating the Himalayas), the onychophorans could spread northwards from India instead.2016 October 12, Susannah Lydon, “How did the velvet worm cross the world? The answer lies in amber”, in The Guardian. From the entry onychophoran
• At that moment the marijuana, coke, and amyl nitrite collided in his bloodstream.2010, Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall, Ghosted, page 130. From the entry popper
• In Conway's Life interesting effects can be obtained by colliding gliders.2008, Derek Abbott, Paul C. W. Davies, Arun Kumar Pati, Quantum Aspects Of Life, page 246. From the entry glider
• The amorphous form of humanflesh left for dead after colliding with a bus going 55 MPH.2000 March 11, Benni Pierce, “Fractured Fiction: Controlling Fate’s Destiny”, in Jacob Chabot et al., editors, The Omen, volume 14, number…. From the entry humanflesh
• Propellers can run afoul in heavy seaweed, and ships are said to be afoul when they collide.1995, James Laurence Pelletier, Mariner's Employment Guide, page 514. From the entry run afoul
• In Halfway Reach we mis-fetched and narrowly missed colliding with a fast moving freighter.1989, Dick Durham, The Last Sailorman, page 85. From the entry misfetch
• A rehabus collided with a double-decker bus, injuring at least 14 people in Sau Mau Ping on Tuesday afternoon.2023 December 5, “14 people were injured in a two-vehicle collision in Sau Mau Ping”, in The Standard, archived from the original on 07…. From the entry Sau Mau Ping
• If sportsballers could collide like human ordnance in that kind of getup, the policewoman ought to be fine.2018, J. S. Morin, Mercy for Hire Mission Pack 1. Missions 1-4, Magical Scrivener Press, →ISBN, page unnamed. From the entry sportsballer
• The air above Yenagoa must be thick with prayer, petitions flying and colliding on their way to heaven.2017, Chibundu Onuzo, Welcome to Lagos, Faber & Faber Ltd, pages 25-26. From the entry Yenagoa
• A ferry collided with a boat around 9:15am Thursday in the channel between Sai Wan and Green Island, injuring five people.2016 April 29, Kris Cheng, “Ferry collides with boat near Sai Wan, injuring 5”, in Hong Kong Free Press, archived from the original on 22…. From the entry Green Island
• Obviously, the emergence of this "new school" of hagsploitation does not collide with the underground popularity of the retro hag movies.2014, Justyna Stępień, Redefining Kitsch and Camp in Literature and Culture, →ISBN, page 50. From the entry hagsploitation
• As he watched, a Duck Boat run-awayer collided with a Four Seasons escapee and they both went crashing to the sidewalk.2007 January 25, Stephen King, Cell, Hodder & Stoughton, →ISBN, page 20. From the entry run-awayer
• It's only a matter of time before marketers collide in the scrabble for the pink grey brown pound.2004, Sunday Times. From the entry brown pound
• I'm at "worlds collide" level, where i don't know how i have to kill the big octopusy monster!2000 May 15, Pietro I., “Worlds Collide”, in alt.games.half-life (Usenet). From the entry octopusy
• One of the exceptions was an experimental high-pressure shunting locomotive; the other two made a suicide pact and collided.1954 August, J. B. Snell, “The New Zealand Government Railways—2”, in Railway Magazine, page 558. From the entry suicide pact
• Outside of the main roads and major cities, life in small-town Ukraine rides a razor's edge on the “zero line” where two armies collide.2023 March 18, “The Forgotten Villages of Ukraine's 'Zero Line'”, in Rolling Stone. From the entry zero line
• More often, this corner of the recovery-house market is a place where the racial and class dynamics of the cosmetic-surgical world collide.2022 May 11, Sandra E. Garcia, “Butt Lifts Are Booming. Healing Is No Joke.”, in The New York Times Magazine. From the entry cosmetic surgical
• Let us assume the gas molecule to be a structureless "billiard ball," translating in space and frequently colliding with the neighboring molecules.2015, Ethirajan Rathakrishnan, “High-temperature Flows”, in High Enthalpy Gas Dynamics, Singapore: John Wiley & Sons Singapore, →ISBN…. From the entry translate
• In contrast with Delhi, though, this development in Hyderabad juxtaposes (and conceptually collides!) with a stronger state-led aim to 'metropolise' the management of water.2012, Joël Ruet, Stéphanie Tawa Lama-Rewal, Governing India's Metropolises: Case Studies of Four Cities, page 194. From the entry metropolise
• Pensak made an inarticulate shout of surprise, and O stepped away from the sudden precipice so hard that she collided with the back of the elevator, and yelped.2024 September 8, HarryBlank, “Next to Nothing”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 05 Oct 2024. From the entry draw
• While earthquakes occur frequently in Taiwan, most occur near or in eastern counties, as the Huadong Valley was formed when the Eurasian and Philippine Sea plates collided.2022 February 16, Stephanie Chiang, “Magnitude 4.4 earthquake jolts east Taiwan”, in Taiwan News, archived from the original on 15 Apr…. From the entry Huadong Valley
• A coach carrying Cathay Pacific employees to Hong Kong’s airport collided with a stationary taxi on Tsing Sha Highway in Tsing Yi island at around 4.54am, crushing both vehicles.2018 November 30, Jennifer Creery, “Footage of deadly coach crash emerges, as Hong Kong leader says ‘too early’ to determine cause”, in…. From the entry Tsing Yi
• In northeastern China, a passenger train collided with a coal-loaded truck early Thursday, killing the train driver and injuring 10 people, the official Xinhua News Agency said.2013 October 24, “2 dead, 62 injured in China train collisions”, in AP News, archived from the original on 10 Mar 2023. From the entry Jiamusi
• Blackburn's cause was not helped when Morten Gamst Pedersen and Gael Givet collided going for the same ball, both players emerging blooded and dazed but otherwise unharmed.2011 October 29, Neil Johnston, “Norwich 3 - 3 Blackburn”, in BBC Sport. From the entry blooded
• Nebulae hurled apart by a titanic superexplosion swirl in huge eddies, whirlpools of galaxies race apart, planetary systems are born, gaseous nebulae and galactic systems collide.2000, Mikhail Vasilyev, Kirill Stanyukovich, Matter and Man, University Press of the Pacific, →ISBN, page 154. From the entry superexplosion
• The two colliding car-ends were damaged and the bogie of the standing train was lifted off the supporting rail so that its wheels settled by the side of the rail.1908 May 1, “Miscellanea”, in W[illiam] H[enry] Maw, B. Alfred Raworth, editors, Engineering: An Illustrated Weekly Journal, volume LXXXV…. From the entry bogie

Meaning of collide

1. verb To make a direct impact, especially if violent.
2. verb To come into conflict, or be incompatible.
3. verb To meet; to come into contact.

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How do you use collide in a sentence?

Collide is used as a verb. For example: “When a body collides with another, then momentum is conserved.”

What is a short sentence with collide?

“China collided with the modern world.”

What does collide mean?

Collide means to make a direct impact, especially if violent.