Examples of collision course in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web King/Drew is on a collision course to meet Crenshaw for the Coliseum League championship. — Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2022 However, Phoenix and Golden State appear to be on a collision course. — Duane Rankin, The Arizona Republic, 6 Jan. 2022 Georgia, the defensive mammoth, and Alabama, the perennial juggernaut, seemed to be on a collision course to the top of college football all season. — New York Times, 1 Jan. 2022 The sale -- which would involve the most advanced US weaponry ever transferred to an Arab state -- has been on a collision course since then, with US politicians raising concerns about the deal. — CNN, 14 Dec. 2021 The advantage of having an early warning if an asteroid is on a collision course is that only a tiny shift in trajectory would be needed to save the day—and the DART mission is a dry run at doing that. — Ramin Skibba, Wired, 23 Nov. 2021 High demand for goods triggered by service-sector shutdowns and by supportive monetary and fiscal policy that was rolled out last year was on a collision course with a global supply chain that had effectively had sand poured into its gears. — NBC News, 27 Dec. 2021 Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence play astronomers Randall Mindy and Kate Dibiasky, who stumble upon a comet that’s on a collision course with Earth, but then have trouble getting anyone to take the threat seriously. — Amit Katwala, Wired, 20 Dec. 2021 With new scientific advances on the horizon - including artificial wombs in which fetuses could be grown outside the body - some wonder if we are headed to a point where Roe’s viability framework is on a collision course with modern medicine. — Ariana Eunjung Cha, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Dec. 2021

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“Collision course.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/collision%20course. Accessed 21 Jan. 2022.

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