How to Use collision course in a Sentence

collision course

noun
  • Or is Bumble too far along a collision course to save?
    — Andrew Nusca, Fortune, 7 Aug. 2025
  • Soon, it could even be used to push space debris away from a collision course with a satellite.
    — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • That has put them on a collision course with states like Connecticut.
    — Lisa Hagen, Hartford Courant, 21 Apr. 2026
  • The sides appear to be on an unavoidable collision course this season.
    — Torrey Hart, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2026
  • But the evidence soon leads them to a cover-up, putting them on a collision course with the entire chain of command.
    — Greg Evans, Deadline, 23 June 2026
  • That early whistle thrust the Knicks fan favorite into a collision course with the Frenchy.
    — Alejandro Avila Outkick, FOXNews.com, 11 June 2026
  • Just seconds after clearing the convoy to proceed, the tower attempted to wave the lead truck off its collision course.
    — Evan Simko-Bednarski, New York Daily News, 28 Apr. 2026
  • As the night goes on and the party grows rowdier and more decadent, the duo is set on a collision course that will inevitably lead to a shocking conclusion.
    — Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 5 Aug. 2025
  • The Edmonton Oilers appear to be on a collision course with breaking news in the coming days.
    — Allan Mitchell, New York Times, 13 May 2026
  • Sonic booms are unlikely to offer enough lead time for, say, a passenger jet to escape a collision course with a plummeting piece of space junk.
    — Lee Billings, Scientific American, 21 Jan. 2026
  • Zarutska, a refugee from Ukraine, had picked an empty row, and sat in front of a man in a red sweatshirt, unaware of the two’s imminent collision course.
    — Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN Money, 9 Sep. 2025
  • In fact, the entire night was a collision course of popular culture, politics and sports entertainment.
    — Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 15 June 2026
  • Russia’s defense ministry said the crew fired warning shots several hundred yards in front of the yacht, which appeared to be sailing on a collision course with the vessel.
    — Hira Humayun, CNN Money, 16 June 2026
  • Instead, a portion of a Falcon 9 rocket is on a collision course with the moon after orbiting high above Earth for more than a year.
    — Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 4 May 2026
  • Someday, work in this area might even lead to spacecraft capable of diverting asteroids from likely collision courses with Earth.
    — Gordon Roesler, IEEE Spectrum, 8 Mar. 2017
  • As shifting allegiances and a growing threat set them on a collision course for one another, they’re pulled into a high-stakes race across the stars that could decide the fate of humanity.
    — Matt Grobar, Deadline, 20 Apr. 2026
  • The device, which might be a large, heavy space probe, would fly alongside the near-Earth object for an extended period (years to decades) and slowly drag it away from its collision course.
    — Govert Schilling, Scientific American, 27 June 2026
  • The tension between these two ideas is acute, putting law enforcement and citizens on a potentially catastrophic collision course.
    — The Atlantic, 26 Jan. 2026
  • Lubesnik is the one called to interrogate the first of several crime scenes in Crime 101, which will put him on an eventual collision course with Davis.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 13 Feb. 2026
  • Blue Origin is teaming up with NASA to thwart asteroids that may be on collision courses with Earth.
    — Josh Dinner, Space.com, 17 Mar. 2026
  • China’s discovery of a new form of entertainment—one already worth billions of dollars—has put it on a collision course with the incumbents in Hollywood.
    — Chang Che, New Yorker, 25 Apr. 2026
  • Air traffic control told the pilots to turn right, which put them on a potential collision course with another 737 that had been cleared for takeoff from a parallel runway.
    — Kris Van Cleave, CBS News, 21 Apr. 2026
  • Yet as both nations continue their collision course, the broader Middle East faces a precarious transition.
    — Khaled Hassan, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Later in the season, the teams appeared to be on a Super Bowl collision course, with the Lions reaching the NFC title game.
    — Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 11 Oct. 2025
  • As security officer of the Maginot, Morrow abandons his post to kill the traitor — allowing the ship to continue its collision course into Earth.
    — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Evan Blankenship and the Bulldogs have split with conference rival Wheaton Warrenville South and could be on collision course for regional title.
    — Rick Armstrong, Chicago Tribune, 24 Feb. 2026
  • Dobrev and Wesley play Gwen and Scott, respectively — two neighbors on opposite sides of a murder investigation, leading them on a collision course.
    — Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 25 June 2026
  • While the small moonlet asteroid Dimorphos posed no threat to Earth, the mission served as a successful demonstration that dangerous space rocks could be diverted from a collision course with Earth.
    — Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 16 Apr. 2026
  • While the small moonlet asteroid Dimorphos posed no threat to Earth, the mission served as a successful demonstration that dangerous space rocks could be diverted from a collision course with Earth.
    — Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 27 Mar. 2026
  • If an asteroid ever needs to be diverted from a collision course with Earth, a future planetary defense mission may resemble a test NASA pulled off four years ago.
    — Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 10 Mar. 2026

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