crashed

past tense of crash
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as in pushed
to force one's way fleeing animals crashed through the forest

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Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of crashed That Tuesday morning, Rodriguez was home with a seven-month-old baby when a friend of hers—who happened to be a police officer at the 41st Precinct in the Bronx—called her to tell her a plane had crashed into the World Trade Center. Rachel Burchfield, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025 And in a rural field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, a similar ceremony marked by moments of silence, the reading of names and the laying of wreaths, will honor the victims of Flight 93, the hijacked plane that crashed after crew members and passengers tried to storm the cockpit. Philip Marcelo, Fortune, 11 Sep. 2025 The fourth plane crashed in a Pennsylvania field. Chad Murphy, Cincinnati Enquirer, 11 Sep. 2025 Brennock crashed on the rebound to bury a 1-0 lead. Tom Mulherin, Boston Herald, 10 Sep. 2025 One person was killed Monday when a sports car veered off a rural roadway near Pala Casino and crashed into a tree. City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Sep. 2025 All but one of the 242 people on board Air India Flight 171 on June 12 were killed when the Boeing Dreamliner, bound for London, crashed seconds after takeoff from Ahmedabad in western India. Leslie Josephs, CNBC, 10 Sep. 2025 One of the unmanned aerial vehicles crashed on the grounds of a Territorial Defence Forces unit in Nowe Miasto nad Pilicą, near Warsaw. Amanda Castro shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Sep. 2025 High demand has crashed servers on Steam and other platforms. Meredith G. White, AZCentral.com, 4 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for crashed
Verb
  • In the aftermath, Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko recorded a video message from the building’s shattered upper floors.
    Katya Soldak, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Photos of the aftermath showed the front windshield on the roof of the bus shattered and nearly flattened.
    Michael Rios, CNN Money, 8 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Worthy collided with Travis Kelce on their underneath crossing patterns on the initial third down of the game and injured his shoulder.
    Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 6 Sep. 2025
  • The Chiefs piled up uncharacteristic mistakes, which began early when Kelce was moved off his route and collided with Worthy, causing Worthy to leave the game with a right shoulder injury.
    Jesse Newell, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • North’s longtime wife, Betsy, died late last November, soon after their 56th wedding anniversary.
    Josh Meyer, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2025
  • A student who authorities say opened fire at his Colorado high school, wounding two classmates and then turning the gun on himself, has died, according to the local sheriff's office.
    Alex Stone, ABC News, 11 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Laura is frantic about saving Daniel after learning Cherry pushed her father from a construction site, fracturing his spine in two places.
    Erin Jensen, USA Today, 12 Sep. 2025
  • If verified, some researchers suggest this respite also could be a glimpse of future hurricane seasons, with the historic early-to-mid-September peak pushed back on the calendar.
    Alex Harris, Miami Herald, 11 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • When a mother tree is felled, the survival rate of many of its seedlings may be drastically reduced, a process not unlike the reciprocal feedback loop of Yggdrasill, whose deterioration in response to discord in the nine realms spells cosmic collapse.
    Ellen Walker, JSTOR Daily, 3 Sep. 2025
  • There are also beautifully observed moments toward the end with Dorotea and Riccardo; and a moving reckoning with death when Mariano’s favorite horse, a stallion named Elvis, is felled by illness and the president refuses to end his suffering by having the animal put to sleep.
    David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 27 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • After the Buckeyes won the College Football Playoff National Championship in January 2025, Kirk shared that Zak had been diagnosed with heart failure and medically retired from football.
    Adam England, PEOPLE, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Alcaraz holds a 9-5 career advantage, 3-2 in majors and 6-2 on hardcourts, including the Cincinnati final where Sinner retired with a virus.
    Adam Zagoria, Forbes.com, 6 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Even as hiring slowed last month, the average length of the workweek stayed steady.
    John Cassidy, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
  • He was invited to Sandy Springs on a press trip and stayed at the Hyatt House Atlanta / Perimeter Center, which USA TODAY toured separately.
    Eve Chen, USA Today, 8 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • After McNeil refused to get out of his car, Bowers smashed the driver’s side window, punched McNeil in the head and pulled him out of the SUV.
    Christopher Cann, USA Today, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Protesters smashed windows and looted local businesses and set government buildings on fire.
    Lex Harvey, CNN Money, 10 Sep. 2025

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