How to Use implode in a Sentence

implode

verb

• But bands like that tend to burn out or implode, and the Icarus Line did both.
  — August Brown, latimes.com, 20 June 2018
• The submersible was not up to the task and imploded on its way down to the ocean floor.
  — Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA TODAY, 18 Sep. 2024
• The election alone didn't cause Wall Street to implode in 2000.
  — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 4 Nov. 2020
• Instead of imploding along the way, the Irish seemed to get stronger.
  — Mike Berardino, Indianapolis Star, 27 Nov. 2019
• Even when the dates implode, the show is able to maintain a hopeful vibe.
  — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 14 Nov. 2022
• The walls had to be solid steel a foot thick so the chamber wouldn’t implode.
  — Mark Synnott, Wired, 13 Apr. 2021
• So the movie ticket wars won’t end if and when MoviePass implodes.
  — Alissa Wilkinson, Vox, 3 Aug. 2018
• In some ways, this line signals how the team’s crime spree will implode.
  — Brandon Tensley, Washington Post, 21 July 2023
• The thought of the building imploding hadn’t pestered him or crossed his mind much.
  — Chris Kenning, USA TODAY, 30 Oct. 2024
• Sam Dyson imploded at the start of the season, taking the loss in the opener.
  — Jeff Wilson, star-telegram, 1 Oct. 2017
• Alas, Talking Heads began to implode by the end of that same decade.
  — George Varga, sandiegouniontribune.com, 13 Apr. 2018
• The trade deadline is still two weeks away, but the NBA might implode before then.
  — Andrew Sharp, SI.com, 23 Jan. 2018
• The killings took place as the Ottoman Empire began to implode.
  — James Hookway, WSJ, 24 Apr. 2021
• And even some other drives in there that weren’t great — not imploding.
  — Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Sep. 2023
• To get there, her two rivals first had to see their campaigns implode.
  — New York Times, 7 June 2021
• The lawsuit also alleges the chilling detail that the crew would have been aware that the sub was about to implode.
  — Phil Helsel, NBC News, 8 Aug. 2024
• Rush was among the five people who died when the submersible imploded.
  — CBS News, 23 Sep. 2024
• The big picture: To ring in the New Year, a peach will drop, footballs will be thrown, and, just outside the metro, a building will implode.
  — Rebecca Falconer, Axios, 1 Jan. 2025
• Like baseball, those plans could implode at any minute.
  — Tim Dahlberg, Star Tribune, 27 July 2020
• The Cowboys seem to be one injury away from imploding at all times.
  — Rob Tornoe, Philly.com, 23 Jan. 2018
• Never mind the tragedy of the Titan imploding last June on its way to the Titanic, killing all on board.
  — Thomas Curwen, Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar. 2024
• Among the chaos is one of Jackson’s favorite moments, where the VFX team got to explode and implode a building at the same time.
  — Daron James, Los Angeles Times, 23 Mar. 2021
• After the Mets’ bullpen imploded a night before, the stable held it down this time around.
  — James O'Connell, Hartford Courant, 19 May 2024
• To be clear, there are also times when a sweet spot just doesn't exist and things simply implode.
  — Phil Mattingly, CNN, 22 Sep. 2021
• Powerful at its core, the wine seems to implode on itself.
  — Dave McIntyre, Washington Post, 4 Sep. 2020
• And yet the very thing that the Ravens were supposed to depend on this season, the pride and joy of this franchise, has imploded in less than a month.
  — Jonas Shaffer, baltimoresun.com, 30 Sep. 2019
• Rush was among five people who died when the submersible imploded en route to the site of the Titanic wreck in June 2023.
  — Patrick Whittle, Fortune, 20 Sep. 2024
• The pressure becomes so intense that the human body would implode; you would be squashed.
  — Benjamin Roulston, Discover Magazine, 7 Nov. 2024
• When the market imploded, causing trillions of dollars worth of lending to evaporate within a year, the GSEs were caught in the crossfires.
  — Ana Teresa Solá, CNBC, 12 Feb. 2025
• Now on a collision course with former mob boss turned political candidate Wilson Fisk, the entire city might implode.
  — Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 21 Feb. 2025