How to Use collide in a Sentence
collide
verb- Two football players collided on the field.
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They’re born where your own worlds collide.
—Yurii Zinchenko, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
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By the time the fog had parted, the ships were set to collide.
—Zoe Sottile, CNN, 31 Mar. 2024
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And that’s when those worlds can collide in a very bad manner.
—Paolo Confino, Fortune, 26 Oct. 2022
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Cannes remains one of the few places where all of those worlds still collide face-to-face.
—Dana Harris-Bridson, IndieWire, 18 May 2026
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Their paths will soon collide on an island off the coast of Maine.
—New York Times, 10 Aug. 2023
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His crew stopped in time to avoid colliding with the piling.
—David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 12 June 2026
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As a result, both cars collided in the fast lane.
—Lydia Mee, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Oct. 2025
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That’s also when peak heating and the sea breeze will collide.
—Richard Tribou, Orlando Sentinel, 27 May 2022
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At some point our expressions and thoughts about these two worlds would collide.
—Michael Gale, Forbes, 28 June 2022
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For the first time in a while, their pop world’s fully collided.
—Rolling Stone, 3 Oct. 2025
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The events of the night force their two lives to collide, reopening old wounds.
—Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Mar. 2022
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This caused the driver to collide head-on with the garbage truck, police said.
—Slone Terranella, Detroit Free Press, 12 Jan. 2021
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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
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For me, past, present and future have collided.
—Danielle Harriott, Chicago Tribune, 26 Aug. 2025
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But shaking his hand felt like every star in the sky collided.
—Leigh Blickley, Entertainment Weekly, 18 June 2026
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But shaking his hand felt like every star in the sky collided.
—Raechal Shewfelt, Entertainment Weekly, 19 June 2026
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The past collides with the present, and the menu is rooted in the Gulf yet open to the world.
—Symiah Dorsey, Southern Living, 21 Sep. 2025
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The car left the roadway and hit a canal bank before colliding with a tree.
—Rose Evans, Idaho Statesman, 21 Feb. 2026
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Witnesses said the sled struck a curb and collided with a tree.
—Stephen Sorace, FOXNews.com, 29 Jan. 2026
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Witnesses said the sled struck a curb and collided with a tree.
—Stephen Sorace, FOXNews.com, 27 Jan. 2026
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This is my way of letting those worlds collide, overlap and dance with each other.
—Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 11 Feb. 2026
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The plane did not collide with anything else, outside the power lines.
—Austin Turner, CBS News, 20 Apr. 2026
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Dash cam video showed the bus initially colliding with the dump truck.
—Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 30 Mar. 2026
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During a winter storm, snowflakes and sleet pellets high in the clouds can collide.
—Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 4 Jan. 2022
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In fact, there's also a good handful of people who seem to like when the two worlds collide.
—Kayla Keegan, Good Housekeeping, 26 Mar. 2020
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Photons from tens, hundreds, thousands of years ago collide with my eyes.
—Alexandra Oliva june 1, Literary Hub, 1 June 2026
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The tree collided with at least 12 other cars that were parked on the street.
—Nicole Comstock, CBS News, 27 May 2026
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No one knows for sure if the objects will collide, and near-misses happen in space all the time.
—Jackie Wattles, CNN, 15 Oct. 2020
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Camera footage from the scene showed the two buses colliding.
—ABC News, 24 Apr. 2026
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