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  • To watch him collide, then fold, then lie still.†   (source)
  • The lead boy looked back at her, laughing at the near miss, and then almost collided with a woman stepping from the store.†   (source)
  • In the corridor, she nearly collided with the party man.†   (source)
  • Watching his chest rise and fall to the rhythm of the hissing ventilator, a curious numbness washes over me, the same numbness a man might feel seconds after he has swerved his car and barely avoided a head-on collision.†   (source)
  • Cato must have a knife or sword or something, too, something he had hidden in his clothes, because on occasion there's the death scream of a mutt or the sound of metal on metal as the blade collides with the golden horn.†   (source)
  • The collision rotated Strong's bomber onto its left side and under Robin-son's plane just as Robinson's bombardier dropped a thousand-pound mine.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Weasley dashed about in a bad mood looking for spare socks and quills; people kept colliding on the stairs, half-dressed with bits of toast in their hands; and Mr. Weasley nearly broke his neck, tripping over a stray chicken as he crossed the yard carrying Ginny's trunk to the car.†   (source)
  • A bee flew straight at my forehead, collided with the net, and bumped against my skin.†   (source)
  • But before I could reach the seventh-grade-class building, I had the misfortune to collide with Mary Lou's father.†   (source)
  • What it collides with, and how fast.†   (source)
  • The collision had turned him around.†   (source)
  • For something to go this colossally wrong, everything must intersect and collide at the exact right, or in this case, wrong, moment.†   (source)
  • It seemed surreal and miraculous to me that so many cars could drive past one another without colliding, and I felt certain that each set of headlights headed my way would inevitably veer into my path.†   (source)
  • Thus, successful collisions are very rare.†   (source)
  • "The extent of the crash is still unknown, if is a derailment or a collision," said the radio.†   (source)
  • They had been at odds for quite some time, I gather, but things came to a head one night when their paths collided in the lobby, and the gauntlet was thrown down on that very spot.†   (source)
  • He collided with me among the laurels.†   (source)
  • Pent-up passions collide as they explore each other.†   (source)
  • As for my relationship with her, we always seemed to be colliding about something.†   (source)
  • At the last second before collision, just as he got a close look at the metal and hair and slime, Thomas planted his left foot and dove to the right.†   (source)
  • Wes was bigger and stronger than the other boy, a fact pointedly reinforced every time their bodies collided.†   (source)
  • There were many collisions—all involving fatalities, I'm afraid—and a number of cars spun wildly out of control and collided against barriers, bursting above the surface of the water and splashing down in showers of luminescence.†   (source)
  • As soon as the sword passed over me, I ran for the kitchen, colliding with the tall man and knocking him down.†   (source)
  • The two men collided, Silas's broad, naked shoulder grinding into the man's sternum with crushing force.†   (source)
  • A split second before they collided, the Special seemed to disappear, slipping out of sight like a coin in a magician's hand.†   (source)
  • He held out one hand before him although there was nothing on that salt heath to collide with.†   (source)
  • The empty land stretches as far as I can see, a brown plane colliding with the horizon.†   (source)
  • Someone managed to scramble over the gates and, after much colliding and giggling, we all found our way to the middle and drank strong cider while someone passed around a joint.†   (source)
  • But now it hit him: how strange it was that the ship had collided with the iceberg at the exact moment the scar-faced man had opened the lid of Mr. Burrows's crate.†   (source)
  • The first section was rather what Reynie would have expected — one or two questions regarding octagons and hexagons, another devoted to bushels of this and kilograms of that, and another that required calculating how much time must pass before two speeding trains collided.†   (source)
  • Guy Greco struck the downbeat three final times—hop-hop-hop—and the two lines collided at the gate in a frenzy of hugs and shrieks and kisses.†   (source)
  • The night Emma collided with her tenth deer, she drove to Whispers and played "Sentimental Journey" as soon as Joe set foot in the door.†   (source)
  • Tim saw another door ahead, with the blue biohazard sign, and he slammed into the door, and moved beyond it, and suddenly he collided with something big and Lex shrieked in terror.†   (source)
  • But to imagine ourselves together in this place was to imagine collisions and explosions, seismic movements of the earth we were standing on.†   (source)
  • She gasped as her spine collided with marble, the rapier flying from her hand.†   (source)
  • I resisted thinking by listening to the sound of the forest as songs of birds collided with the shouting of monkeys and the cackle of baboons.†   (source)
  • I don't even stop when I accidentally collide with an old man.†   (source)
  • Sometime after she'd managed to catch her breath, Grandmother had cried out, too, and of course Lydia had cried out as well—after she'd collided with her dresser drawers.†   (source)
  • I even started two games at fullback after Shandra collided with Dolly in practice and wrenched Dolly's back.†   (source)
  • Obviously, she says, the Nautilus had collided with something and then heeled over at a sharp angle ….†   (source)
  • The only piece of metal not mangled or burned by the collision was a yellow triangle with black lettering on the back bumper, which read: SAFETY FIRST!†   (source)
  • Then these separate sounds collided into the general tumult of his body falling clumsily down the white marble stairs.†   (source)
  • I ran down the hallway, colliding with someone and running blindly on, thinking only that she must be very disappointed.†   (source)
  • She thought how she might describe it, the way they bobbed on the illuminated water's gentle swell, and how their hair spread like tendrils and their clothed bodies softly collided and drifted apart.†   (source)
  • She conjured one of her own and the two orbs collided.†   (source)
  • The words "Collision with Terrain" blinked accusingly.†   (source)
  • I fall to my knees, colliding with what feels like concrete.†   (source)
  • It was as if something outside him had resulted in the collision of their two bodies one afternoon.†   (source)
  • They seemed to be going haywire, colliding with one another like excited atoms.†   (source)
  • Her shoulder still aching from the car collision, Violet turned the brass handle of the door and walked inside.†   (source)
  • They were playing basketball, and Eleanor caught the ball, colliding with one of Tina's friends, a jumpy, wiry girl named Annette.†   (source)
  • Until some idiot removes the collision sensor, trying to make it go faster.†   (source)
  • He groaned after we collided, even though it really wasn't that hard.†   (source)
  • He peered at it, but was unable to discern any clear shape, and suddenly gasped in alarm as the aircar dipped sharply and headed downward in what seemed certain to be a collision course.†   (source)
  • The cause of injury was the same in all cases: ACCIDENTAL COLLISION IN NULL G If the teachers were allowing that to turn up on the official report, it was obvious they didn't intend to punish anyone for the nasty little skirmish in the battleroom.†   (source)
  • We begin to run toward each other until our fists collide against the glass, smashing the mirror.†   (source)
  • My heart, after the collision and freeze of the moment, had begun to pound with hard, sharp, painful blows like a fist striking in the center of my chest.†   (source)
  • The words collide in my mouth, and now I know there's no amount of darkness that can cover the rush of red to my face.†   (source)
  • I collided with algebra in my first year at secondary school, and it sent me reeling.†   (source)
  • It collided with the love potion that Uncle Ron gave me as a joke.†   (source)
  • Butler's burly frame collided with the wall at a speed human bones were never meant to withstand.†   (source)
  • Then the collision and the long skid.†   (source)
  • They both dove for it simultaneously, splashing in the shallows as their heads collided.†   (source)
  • My fist collided with my locker and the loud banging accompanied the curse flying from my mouth.†   (source)
  • FAUBUS, U.S. GOVERNMENT HEAD INTO CRUCIAL COLLISION IN FEDERAL COURT TODAY —Arkansas Gazette, Friday, September 20, 1957†   (source)
  • Even as they plummeted toward the ground, there was no fear of collision.†   (source)
  • She decided to wait until she was in the parking lot by the grocery store, rather than risk a head-on collision during a juicy cell-phone conversation.†   (source)
  • A colossal collision in the very center of the clearing.†   (source)
  • The basic, failsafe design of an EMV's collision-avoidance equipment had not changed in centuries.†   (source)
  • It had curled gratingly around the end of the truck and, still spinning and sliding, was about to collide with me again.†   (source)
  • A BOY HAD COLLIDED with an event.†   (source)
  • The gradient saved him, as it had saved Mikey and me, the way the steep mountain saves a ski jumper, enabling him to continue down at high speed without a terminal collision with flat ground.†   (source)
  • Their own GPS systems kept them from colliding, and, coordinating with the satellite view, they found his powder-blue truck in sixty-seven seconds.†   (source)
  • She was going into the Monument Public Library and he was coming out and they collided at the door.†   (source)
  • "Accidental" collisions and trippings, a shove, a heel ground into a toe, were making the old clockman's journeys to and from work times of terror.†   (source)
  • Have you ever collided with a bomber?†   (source)
  • In The Black Sun, avatars are not allowed to collide.†   (source)
  • The instruments didn't blend so much as collide, like rocks caught in a lawn mower.†   (source)
  • When extremes of temperature collide, a hot and cold front, winds generate instantaneously behind a hill and crash upon you without warning.†   (source)
  • A scattering of Lomas dudes pushed through the crowd from the other end, each crew heading toward a collision on the midway.†   (source)
  • Murray and I passed each other near the center of the room, almost colliding.†   (source)
  • "Ample time," said Dustfinger, bowing so low to her that the tip of his nose collided with the rim of his plate.†   (source)
  • She was accused (quite rightly) of hiding behind doors and deliberately colliding with her seniors.†   (source)
  • Somewhere in the distance there was a metallic bang as two cars collided.†   (source)
  • When she collided with something unmistakably alive, she yelped out loud.†   (source)
  • It occurred to me that I could not remain where I was for long without incurring the risk of an oncoming vehicle coming round that same bend and colliding into my employer's Ford.†   (source)
  • I remember this because that particular day became famous in our household as "The Day Jai Managed to Achieve the One-Driver, Two-Car Collision."†   (source)
  • When that moment came the guards moved apart, and an impatient, close-packed crowd of people surged towards each other from both sides, colliding, flinging one another to the ground, treading other people underfoot to get away from the dangerous vicinity of the Germans as quickly as possible and back inside the two ghettos.†   (source)
  • Each was accompanied by waves of delight and joy but he wasn't sure if they were real or a hallucination conjured up by collisions between some damaged or otherwise wayward neurons and the drugs coursing through his veins.†   (source)
  • There's high drama and contradiction, a collision of opposing forces, lyrical respites.†   (source)
  • A limerick, actually: There once was a girl from Manhattan Who slept only on sheets made of satin Her husband slipped and he slided And their bodies collided So they did something dirty in Latin.†   (source)
  • While Gala Placidia bumped into people and became entangled in her baskets and had to run to keep up with her, she navigated the disorder of the street in her own time and space, not colliding with anyone, like a bat in the darkness.†   (source)
  • The Houses Minor behind them, sheep-faced and responsive, laughed with just the right tone of appreciation, but the sound carried a note of discord as it collided with the sudden blast of motors that came to them when pages threw open the outer doors, revealing the line of ground cars, their guidon pennants whipping in a breeze.†   (source)
  • This means Quality is not just the result of a collision between subject and object.†   (source)
  • He swerved back, nearly colliding with me, taunting me to chase him.†   (source)
  • Even from this visit of Paul in Athens we sense a coming collision between Greek philosophy and the doctrine of Christian redemption.†   (source)
  • If, in sleep, I turned, the bone-cold head collided with my own.†   (source)
  • I forced it toward the receiver again, but again it stopped short, as if it had collided with a pane of glass.†   (source)
  • She shows me where two stains collide and says that's a pair of brothers.†   (source)
  • The boys continued hitting the tennis ball with pailings snatched from a fence and running holes in the ground, colliding with everyone.†   (source)
  • But a dark shape startled him, and he stumbled, nearly colliding with the lump in the stairwell.†   (source)
  • Carole had said there was a special beep that drivers made on their horns in Port-au-Prince to announce, "I'm coming around this corner in the wrong lane," and the saying in her girlhood was that if you made that beep and then heard another like it coming from the other direction, you prayed you would die in the collision so as not to be sent to the Central Hospital.†   (source)
  • Evidently both were going too fast and what should have been a minor collision proved a catastrophe.†   (source)
  • He yelled and shook his fists and with his very threats forced her across the cluttered room until she collided with one of the steel bed frames and fell back onto a mattress.†   (source)
  • It collided with my face, smelling strongly of leather.†   (source)
  • The sound of Dick's voice was like an injection of some potent narcotic, a drug that, invading his veins, produced a delirium of colliding sensations: tension and relief, fury and affection.†   (source)
  • Our day-to-day existence improved, but inwardly, we were on a collision course that could be more threatening and ominous than ever before.†   (source)
  • It collides with the locker behind me.†   (source)
  • He struck a face, he felt bone beneath the bone of his fist, and weak green eyes, glaring into his like headlights at the moment of collision, shuttered in distress.†   (source)
  • There was an ungodly collision of brass, reed, and percussion--trombones and piccolos skidded into cacophony, a tuba farted, and the hollow clang of a cymbal wavered out of the big top, over our heads and into oblivion.†   (source)
  • Cultures were colliding in Clarkston, and the result was a raw and exceptionally charged experiment in getting along.†   (source)
  • These days they were like two planets in orbit around the same sun, not colliding but not drawing any closer either.†   (source)
  • I don't need a collision or a four-hour silent treatment so I try to forget that I think his wife is good people and ask him if Charlene's given him any signals.†   (source)
  • The minivan swerved back into the right lane, narrowly missing a head-on collision with the sedan.†   (source)
  • Bert and I almost collided and spilled condiments all over each other, but I was able to step aside at the last second, disaster averted.†   (source)
  • Collisions happened almost every moment, and when one overloaded wagon broke down, there were enough men on hand to drag it and its contents over the bridge by force.†   (source)
  • It was like hot and cold air colliding, creating a tornado right inside the hall.†   (source)
  • By the time I reached the doors I was running and I almost collided with the first one.†   (source)
  • Avoiding collision was the most dangerous part of the maneuver, but not the only part.†   (source)
  • The new bunch had simply cut around the chaparral thicket from the north and collided with the first herd.†   (source)
  • She had already escaped Kasturba Nagar and was preparing to take a hotel job when she came back for a visit--and collided with the ambitions and self-assurance of Akku Yadav.†   (source)
  • Everything collides in me.†   (source)
  • Colliding Cars -- Predict the outcome of bumper car collisions.†   (source)
  • His nose was bandaged and he had two black eyes from the previous collision with Puller's head.†   (source)
  • The whistle blew and they sprang forward, collided, and tried to either bowl each other over or muscle each other out of the alley.†   (source)
  • Taxila may have been a hub where Buddhism and Islam collided hundreds of years ago, before battling for supremacy.†   (source)
  • Just before they reached it, the robot veered off as if it had a mind of its own and collided with the wall a second time.†   (source)
  • He creates a dramatic collision between my fielder and baseman, first base sliding back, right field sliding up, then smack!†   (source)
  • Bill Ranous was directly behind him, and collided with him when Harlon stopped abruptly.†   (source)
  • The last mass extinction happened about 65 million years ago, when an asteroid probably collided with our planet, killing all the dinosaurs and about half of the marine animals.†   (source)
  • There's something about having Leigh and Sunshine in a room together that makes me imagine two planets colliding.†   (source)
  • The realization was blasted from his mind instantly by the sound of an automobile collision in his head.†   (source)
  • The smaller craft would not survive a collision.†   (source)
  • He walked right back in and almost collided with the chaplain, who was rushing out behind him on his way back to Major Major.†   (source)
  • Half the basketball team collided into me.†   (source)
  • Chiniqua, who scored an 1100 on her SATs, received years of counseling-both academic and social-to assist with the collision of cultures she ingested each day crossing fifty blocks of Manhattan.†   (source)
  • Then Vlad collided with the trunk of a large oak tree, and reality sank in.†   (source)
  • Arched umbrella roofs collided with one another.†   (source)
  • I'm the spectator on the mountain, watching the trains collide in the valley below.†   (source)
  • They pushed past startled employees and almost collided with someone delivering sandwiches.†   (source)
  • They collided there on the desert floor, two small boys about the same height, like two long-lost twins reunited.†   (source)
  • You can also experiment with bumper car collisions.†   (source)
  • The head-on collision sent the Rostons' small Toyota flipping through the air and into a ditch.†   (source)
  • Mario's mother saw the collision and yelled out to her son.†   (source)
  • Women and men held their breath on every play, waiting for their sons to get up when bodies collided with a sound like banging two-by-fours.†   (source)
  • The missiles are colliding!†   (source)
  • How long will it be possible that honor, truth or virtue should be respected among a people who are engaged in such a quick and perpetual succession of such profligate collisions and conflicts?†   (source)
  • Then he was off, heading down the road at such a gallop that he almost collided with Martin Miller's haywain as it turned the sharp bend by the Miner's Tavern.†   (source)
  • They skidded and shied away from him, colliding with those behind them.†   (source)
  • Workers pack the square, cheering his words that echo and collide in midair.†   (source)
  • He collided with cabinetry.†   (source)
  • The collision knocked him off his feet, and he landed on his arse in the mud.†   (source)
  • Rounding the corner to the front yard, Max collided with a man, who let out a groan and dropped his briefcase.†   (source)
  • In fact, when I scored on that run to tie the score at 24 with ten seconds left, I collided with their safety in the end zone, snapping his leg.†   (source)
  • For John Fitzgerald Kennedy is on a collision course with evil.†   (source)
  • I suppose they do this in order to avoid collisions, just the way our traffic patterns look organized from above.†   (source)
  • One-just from old age, the other-in a head-on collision…… Yes, we have Diesels on order, at the United Locomotive Works, but we've waited for them for two years.†   (source)
  • Momentum carrying them both, Shade and Bryan collided, then rolled together onto the soft shoulder of the road.†   (source)
  • "Excuse me," she said, pushing back her chair and running, coming this close to colliding with a waitress delivering ice cream sundaes to some happy family.†   (source)
  • Outside the barracks windows, the leaves when wind-blown crackled like thousands of errant wasps colliding in midair.†   (source)
  • The force of the collision was huge.†   (source)
  • The gun went off just as the marshal collided with the jailer.†   (source)
  • But the truth is, I struggle to balance these clanging, colliding rights.†   (source)
  • "Are they going to have a collision?" he asked in an awestruck voice.†   (source)
  • Sometimes spray from colliding masses of falling water would sweep lighdy across Alessandro Giuliani and Nicolo Sambucca.†   (source)
  • He grabs her, holds her, his cheek colliding with her skull, hard.†   (source)
  • This leaves us free I'm just coming back down the stairs, feeling refreshed and semi-presentable in a black sleeveless Anne Fogarty linen dress, when I nearly collide with a group of people comingup the stairs, led by Luke, who is hauling a couple of really heavy-looking suitcases.†   (source)
  • He braced himself for the collision, but the current suddenly swirled, sending him deeper.†   (source)
  • We drift blindly toward a great collision.†   (source)
  • I was shook up from the collision, and he was pretty addled.†   (source)
  • Antoinette ran across the lawn and as I followed her I collided with a boy coming in the opposite direction.†   (source)
  • They were interrupted by yet another crisis; four victims of a head-on collision were on their way to the emergency room.†   (source)
  • On his fifth or sixth step, he barely missed colliding with his mother, who had just come out of her bedroom.†   (source)
  • When they collided they broke up.†   (source)
  • As usual the deer were not alarmed and none took evasive action except when the wolves hap. pened to be on a collision course with them.†   (source)
  • But it was inevitable that these two worlds—the one where I was just another teenager and the one where I was pretending not to be—would collide.†   (source)
  • My father and Cooper collided in a frenzy of excitement while I grabbed both of my growing sisters and kissed and hugged them.†   (source)
  • I stopped abruptly in front of the sinks, and she came running toward me before she could stop herself, so that she almost collided with me.†   (source)
  • In the night the village suddenly exploded into sound, and Mark put on his slippers, threw a robe over his pajamas and dashed out to collide with a huge dark shape.†   (source)
  • Collision.†   (source)
  • When two ships are on a collision course, and the men at the wheel inflexibly hold to that course, there is going to be a collision.†   (source)
  • So, in a bizarre sense, Dr. King, who had seemed so defeated and who had died without much hope that his philosophy of nonviolent resistance had accomplished anything, became the mainspring for a whole new way of thinking among black people and, in the long run, averted violent head-on collision between the citizens of this country.†   (source)
  • The three looked up in alarm to see looming over them and about to collide the pale green social hall, its towering pointed windows, wrought-iron floral embellishments, solid silence, air somehow of waiting for them.†   (source)
  • Even through the window they could hear the thudding collision of his galloping hoofs.†   (source)
  • The second she is free HELEN blunders away, collides violently with a chair, falls, and sits weeping.†   (source)
  • At the very last instant, I had to go off the road, onto the soft shoulder to my left, and head close to the edge of the canal in order to avoid a collision.†   (source)
  • "Collision courses?" asked Carl.†   (source)
  • But Ben had bad eyesight--a chance collision of unlucky chromosomes the night of his conception--and perhaps in fact a general weakness of sense mechanisms, so that his hold on physical reality was tentative.†   (source)
  • Mr. Haney collided with the doorjamb.†   (source)
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