collapse

In a sentence

Six example sentences with collapse, each labelled with its topic.

• He pushed through the final kilometer and finished in a collapse, unable to stand until the medics brought water.

  Fitness

• The ward tracks every patient's blood sugar because a sudden collapse can follow hours of skipped meals and heavy work.

  Medicine

• Engineers inspect the old pier monthly, since the collapse of a single support could drop the whole walkway into the bay.

  Architecture

• The collapse of the lender came within a week of its last upbeat statement, and depositors lined up before dawn.

  Finance

• The fourth-quarter collapse erased a twenty-point lead, and the coach spent the press conference staring at the box score.

  Basketball

• The collapse of the cod fishery in 1992 put thirty thousand people out of work almost overnight.

  Environment

Found in these word lists

Each source is a published word list that contains collapse. No exam board publishes an official GRE, GMAT or SAT list; GMAT words come from GRE lists and the Academic Word List.

More Academic words

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