Collide is an English word with synonyms like clash or hit. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Collide in a sentence
Related words
Collide meaning
- To impact directly, especially if violent.
- To come into conflict, or be incompatible.
- To meet; to come into contact.
Using Collide
- The main meaning on this page is: To impact directly, especially if violent. | To come into conflict, or be incompatible. | To meet; to come into contact.
- Useful related words include: clash, hit, strike, impinge on.
- In the example corpus, collide often appears in combinations such as: collide with, to collide, collide in.
Context around Collide
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 10 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Collide
- In this selection, "collide" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 21.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, worlds, molecules, possibly, sensors, head and physicists stand out and add context to how "collide" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include aircraft could collide sensors or and and nature collide on this. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "collide" sits close to words such as adidas, analyse and appalled, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with collide
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Commercial bus collide with granite truck. (6 words)
Both men collide in the middle of the ring. (9 words)
In Maxim’s calls with his wife, war and peace collide. (11 words)
Clark was sentenced on April 4 after pleading guilty to culpably and recklessly driving his car at excessive speed whilst under the influence of alcohol, causing the car to collide with a tree and causing severe injury to his two friends. (41 words)
Directed by Native Hawaiian visual storyteller Keliʻi Grace and written by Maui’s Lance D. Collins, the film follows the story of two Lahainaluna High School senior boys whose separate worlds collide in a journey of self-awakening. (38 words)
A pilot could go off course, a government’s internal bureaucratic process might break down, satellites or aircraft could collide, sensors or other equipment could malfunction – to name just a few possibilities. (32 words)
Example sentences (20)
When the molecules collide, they transfer energy to each other in varying degrees, based on how they collide.
Along with posting a series of photos from their wedding, she wrote on Instagram, “Worlds collide.
And if a socialite known for dating Black men crosses the threshold of someone known for their proximity to prestige films, all signs thusly indicate that their worlds cannot possibly collide.
And it’s in these scenes, where the two worlds collide, that some of Combs’ best moments shine through.
A pilot could go off course, a government’s internal bureaucratic process might break down, satellites or aircraft could collide, sensors or other equipment could malfunction – to name just a few possibilities.
At noon, the other two matches unravel as Georgetown and the undefeated Upper Demerara collide on Field 1, while East Bank and East Coast battle on the other Field.
Both men collide in the middle of the ring.
Brad Tripplet, left, and Shawnee’s Tate Bender, collide as they both go for the ball during the Roughriders’ 2-0 win over Shawnee.
But it was only a matter of time before his vanity led him to collide with the Papacy and protestants, with disastrous consequences.
Clark was sentenced on April 4 after pleading guilty to culpably and recklessly driving his car at excessive speed whilst under the influence of alcohol, causing the car to collide with a tree and causing severe injury to his two friends.
Commercial bus collide with granite truck.
Directed by Native Hawaiian visual storyteller Keliʻi Grace and written by Maui’s Lance D. Collins, the film follows the story of two Lahainaluna High School senior boys whose separate worlds collide in a journey of self-awakening.
Gavin Doig, prosecuting, said: ‘The bus driver saw the defendant collide with something and something flew into the air.
Having our souls collide during this was a treasure of my life that I will hold on to forever.
History and nature collide on this chain of three islands off the coast of Galway.
However, it shows two competitors holding large pads to use as they collide head-on.
In any case, by posing thought experiments like this, where gravity and quantum theory collide, physicists hope to learn about the behavior of a unified theory.
In Maxim’s calls with his wife, war and peace collide.
It’s one of many modern arenas where individual rights are liable to collide with the greater good.
Montgomery, whose left leg appeared to collide with since-released linebacker Terez Hall, initially tried to play through the issue but later left practice.
Common combinations with collide
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- collide with 60×
- to collide 34×
- collide in 28×
- collide and 13×
- they collide 12×
- worlds collide 11×
- will collide 10×
- collide on 6×
- collide at 5×
- could collide 4×