How to Use implode in a Sentence

implode

verb

• In some ways, this line signals how the team’s crime spree will implode.
  — Brandon Tensley, Washington Post, 21 July 2023
• Then the team imploded as Cousins’ play took a turn for the worse.
  — Ryan Canfield, Fox News, 25 Feb. 2025
• This did not look like a team imploding so much as a side running out of gas.
  — Peter Berlin, SI.com, 7 May 2017
• To get there, her two rivals first had to see their campaigns implode.
  — New York Times, 7 June 2021
• 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
• And even some other drives in there that weren’t great — not imploding.
  — Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Sep. 2023
• The thought of the building imploding hadn’t pestered him or crossed his mind much.
  — Chris Kenning, USA TODAY, 30 Oct. 2024
• 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
• But the sport has the potential to implode.
  — Scott Dochterman, New York Times, 1 June 2026
• But bands like that tend to burn out or implode, and the Icarus Line did both.
  — August Brown, latimes.com, 20 June 2018
• After a string of high-tension, high-stakes episodes — will the deck team implode?
  — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 25 Nov. 2025
• So the movie ticket wars won’t end if and when MoviePass implodes.
  — Alissa Wilkinson, Vox, 3 Aug. 2018
• Rush was among the five people who died when the submersible imploded.
  — CBS News, 23 Sep. 2024
• Instead of imploding along the way, the Irish seemed to get stronger.
  — Mike Berardino, Indianapolis Star, 27 Nov. 2019
• Lots of companies will implode in any short-term bubble.
  — Alyson Shontell, Fortune, 8 Oct. 2025
• Lots of these companies will implode.
  — Alyson Shontell, Fortune, 8 Oct. 2025
• 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
• Why are school budgets imploding now?
  — Kristina Rex, CBS News, 30 Apr. 2026
• The Cowboys seem to be one injury away from imploding at all times.
  — Rob Tornoe, Philly.com, 23 Jan. 2018
• What happens when the restaurant widely believed to be the best in the world implodes?
  — Sam Stone, Bon Appetit Magazine, 13 Mar. 2026
• Alas, Talking Heads began to implode by the end of that same decade.
  — George Varga, sandiegouniontribune.com, 13 Apr. 2018
• Critics say Stephan missed or ignored red flags that should have told her the case against the teens might implode.
  — John Wilkens, sandiegouniontribune.com, 13 May 2017
• The pressure becomes so intense that the human body would implode; you would be squashed.
  — Benjamin Roulston, Discover Magazine, 7 Nov. 2024
• But on third-and-15 from their own 6-yard line the Bears imploded again.
  — Jeff Faraudo, Mercury News, 23 Nov. 2025
• There's no exact day yet for when the bridge will be imploded, but it's expected this week.
  — Chris Hoffman, CBS News, 13 July 2026
• And as contenders implode around the league, so does the competition.
  — Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 Sep. 2022
• The fandoms would simply implode.
  — Sam Reed, Glamour, 12 Jan. 2026
• Just five—2% of our selections—have imploded or shut down.
  — Amy Feldman, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2025
• Sam Dyson imploded at the start of the season, taking the loss in the opener.
  — Jeff Wilson, star-telegram, 1 Oct. 2017