How to Use collide in a Sentence

collide

verb

• Two football players collided on the field.
• Madison Iseman leads a cast of relative newcomers as twins who collide on a fateful night.
  — Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 21 Oct. 2021
• Beck’s vehicle collided with another car in the stopped traffic.
  — Cameron MacDonald, The Mercury News, 15 Jan. 2025
• Still, some details of her agenda also could collide with Beacon Hill’s more deliberate pace.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 18 Oct. 2021
• The Fish: Great place for Houstonians and sushi to collide while socializing.
  — Kevin Davis, Chron, 28 Sep. 2021
• That fight will inevitably collide with the battle over the debt limit, the big social policy bill and the infrastructure legislation.
  — New York Times, 8 Oct. 2021
• A century later, the two entertainment worlds will finally collide.
  — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 25 Oct. 2021
• As Mahomes slid to the ground in an effort to avoid the oncoming pressure, the two defenders collided with each other while Mahomes was already on the ground.
  — David Faris, Newsweek, 19 Jan. 2025
• Founders may have firm ideas on a company’s direction, values, management style and more, and when those ideas collide, direct discussions — often at high volume — are required.
  — Tzahi (zack) Weisfeld, Forbes, 7 Oct. 2021
• Imagery later confirmed that the eruption was accompanied by a major coronal mass ejection that could collide with Earth’s magnetic field in the coming days.
  — Eric MacK, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2021
• While fission splits the nuclei of atoms to create power, fusion causes hydrogen nuclei to collide and fuse into helium atoms that release tremendous amounts of energy.
  — Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Sep. 2021
• All in all, this type of adverse oppositional driving can produce a cascading car incident that causes a multitude of vehicles to collide.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 24 Sep. 2021
• By the time the fog had parted, the ships were set to collide.
  — Zoe Sottile, CNN, 31 Mar. 2024
• The Kia left the road and collided head-on with a tree.
  — Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 26 Nov. 2024
• The Avengers, the Eternals, and the X-Men are set to collide this summer.
  — Christian Holub, EW.com, 29 June 2022
• The man driving the boat could not avoid the crash, leading the boat and jet ski to collide.
  — Taylor Ardrey, USA TODAY, 21 June 2024
• In the big picture, a lot of forces will collide at the 8:20 p.m. kickoff.
  — Chris Perkins, Sun Sentinel, 22 Oct. 2022
• This piece of rocket won’t be the first spacecraft to collide with the surface of the Moon.
  — Alex Knapp, Forbes, 31 Jan. 2022
• Their paths will soon collide on an island off the coast of Maine.
  — New York Times, 10 Aug. 2023
• The events of the night force their two lives to collide, reopening old wounds.
  — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Mar. 2022
• The rocket will collide with the far side of the moon, which is always turned away from Earth.
  — Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics, 3 Mar. 2022
• And that’s when those worlds can collide in a very bad manner.
  — Paolo Confino, Fortune, 26 Oct. 2022
• As a result, the front of the sedan collided with the left side of the tractor trailer, FHP said.
  — Elainie Barraza, Orlando Sentinel, 13 July 2024
• Laine and the Hyundai driver collided in the eastbound lanes.
  — Angie Dimichele, Sun Sentinel, 16 Aug. 2023
• That’s also when peak heating and the sea breeze will collide.
  — Richard Tribou, Orlando Sentinel, 27 May 2022
• The truck traveled off the roadway, causing the right side of the vehicle to collide with a tree.
  — Elainie Barraza, Orlando Sentinel, 22 June 2024
• The chase ended near 82nd and Burleigh streets, police said, where the truck collided with a squad car.
  — Adrienne Davis, Journal Sentinel, 6 May 2024
• The pole the driver collided with was owned by Salt River Project.
  — Rey Covarrubias Jr., The Arizona Republic, 17 May 2024
• During a winter storm, snowflakes and sleet pellets high in the clouds can collide.
  — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 4 Jan. 2022
• The 26-year-old overturned and collided with a traffic sign and was pronounced dead at the scene, FHP said.
  — Natalia Jaramillo, Orlando Sentinel, 12 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 4 Feb 2025