On the day when she collapses into an old woman she is lost.
You will note that it collapses to the table in a shapeless mass when I lay it down, and seems quite incapable of resisting forces which tend to alter its shape.
Unconsciousness follows quickly in drowning, while in the usual post-mortem review the consciousness continues until the vital body collapses in the same manner that it does when we go to sleep.
When the vital body collapses just subsequent to death, and the panorama of life is terminated, we also lose consciousness for a time which varies according to the individual.
At the expiration of that time, the archetype collapses as it does when death comes naturally.
Q-K2 P-B5 All the avenues of attack are now open, and White's game collapses quickly.
After the text move, however, Black's game collapses quickly before the concentrated onslaught of the White forces.
After the text move, however, White takes possession of the seventh rank, and Black's game collapses quickly.
KtxB Although three minor pieces are generally an equivalent for the Queen, in this case the White game collapses quickly.
I am so glad you understand politics, Jack: it will be most useful to you if you go into parliament [he collapses like a pricked bladder].
He smites his brow, and collapses into Malone's chair].
Therefore "all did not die in Adam," and seeing this is the foundation of the dogmatic Christianity invented by Paul, the whole thing collapses like a house of cards.
Now and again, the sky collapses into light, and that flash of instantaneous sunshine changes the shape of the plain every time, according to its direction.
My vision--beautiful as a fair dream which shows men's composed reliance on each other in the sunrise--collapses in mad nightmare.
She had odd collapses in the presence of the murderer, collapses which were accounted for in very various ways.
We learn as our experience deepens and our horizon widens to regard such collapses with a compassionate sympathy and a humbled consciousness of our own unfitness to judge and condemn.
No sooner does he attempt the comic vein than his whole style collapses into mere balderdash.
So palpably false that it collapses upon the mere examination of your Honor's mind without argument from me.
It requires a certain strength of imagination to realise the assured fact that he was once a "greatest living poet;" retrospection collapses in the effort, and credulity loses heart to believe.
And in that case, the structure which they have built up throughout a decade of years, with such evident self-complacency, collapses "like the baseless fabric of a vision.
Thus one piece of standing ground after another is undermined beneath the feet of the bourgeoisie; and how long will it be before their whole social and political edifice collapses with the basis upon which it rests?
He collapses in a corner among us and prostrates himself.
The mancollapses as if he would plunge into the ground.
He collapses on the couch as though thoroughly glad of it.
I stay till my oxygen is nearly gone, then come out and sadly press the button that collapses the boat into a thirty-pound package of plastic hoops and oxygen cans.
But the bully collapses when the stimulus of victory has deserted him.
The comfortable, elderly mancollapses into silence and the Corn Circular.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "collapses" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
