How to Use crash in a Sentence

crash

1 of 3 verb
  • The books crashed to the floor.
  • The walls crashed down around them.
  • The cymbals crashed and the trumpets blew.
  • We listened to the waves crashing against the shore.
  • She crashed the car into a tree, but no one was hurt.
  • Thunder crashed as the rain started to pour.
  • He has crashed two cars, a truck, and a motorcycle.
  • The stuntman crashed through the window on a motorcycle.
  • He crashed the cymbals together.
  • So now along come these Dodgers to crash this club?
    — Jayson Stark, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2025
  • So are tech stocks going to crash?
    — Jim Edwards, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Fire and smoke where the cargo plane crashed.
    — Matt Lavietes, NBC news, 19 May 2026
  • The sled struck a curb and crashed into a tree.
    — Alexis Simmerman, Austin American Statesman, 27 Jan. 2026
  • At least one car crashed into the right guardrail.
    — Elyssa Kaufman, CBS News, 3 Feb. 2026
  • The garbage truck then rolled and crashed into a home.
    — Mary Ella Hastings june 26, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 26 June 2026
  • Anunoby, left unchecked, crashed from the weak side.
    — C.j. Holmes, New York Daily News, 11 June 2026
  • And the trains are askew again, though nothing crashed this time.
    — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 11 Jan. 2024
  • Offices said that car didn't get far and crashed about a block away.
    — Alexa Herrera, CBS News, 6 Apr. 2026
  • Gales tore at the Mary’s sails, and surf crashed across the brig’s deck.
    — Adam L. Rovner, The Conversation, 31 Oct. 2025
  • Nine months later, Vonn crashed again.
    — Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 3 Feb. 2026
  • The waiter’s tray fell, hit my chest, bounced off and crashed to the floor.
    — Laura House, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2026
  • Green dove for a loose ball and crashed into his team's bench late in the first half.
    — CBS News, 6 Jan. 2026
  • Green dived for a loose ball and crashed into his team’s bench late in the first half.
    — Los Angeles Times, 6 Jan. 2026
  • The block had crashed through the ceiling and landed on the couch.
    — Daniel S. Levine, PEOPLE, 16 Apr. 2026
  • The eight-year veteran crashed on his own couch.
    — Dan Robson, New York Times, 29 May 2026
  • Trees were shredded and came crashing down on cars and roofs.
    — Darius Johnson, CBS News, 12 June 2026
  • Shay made a fan's dream come true by crashing her wedding.
    — Ashlyn Robinette, PEOPLE, 24 June 2026
  • That came to a crashing end quickly.
    — Jeff Fletcher, Oc Register, 6 Sep. 2025
  • The script ends when the server crashes.
    — Bob Bonniol, Rolling Stone, 29 Oct. 2025
  • And it's completely crashed and burned.
    — Zach Dean Outkick, FOXNews.com, 15 May 2026

crash

2 of 3 noun
  • The cause of the crash is not known.
    — Neal Riley, CBS News, 13 May 2026
  • All three of them died in the crash.
    — Lori A Bashian, FOXNews.com, 10 Mar. 2026
  • Beshear said, were struck in the crash.
    — Krista Johnson, Louisville Courier Journal, 5 Nov. 2025
  • This trade isn't a bet that semis crash.
    — Michael Khouw, CNBC, 24 June 2026
  • The cause of the crash is not yet known.
    — Bailey Richards, People.com, 31 Aug. 2025
  • All three died at the scene of the crash.
    — Lauren Penington, Denver Post, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Stone was in a car crash in March.
    — Sarah Jones, PEOPLE, 14 Oct. 2025
  • This isn’t the first crash Woods has been in.
    — Devoun Cetoute, Miami Herald, 27 Mar. 2026
  • The cause of the crash is unknown.
    — Chelsea Hylton, CBS News, 14 Jan. 2026
  • The cause of the crash is unknown.
    — Dejanay Booth-Singleton, CBS News, 27 Mar. 2026
  • Ball was not injured in the crash.
    — Charlotte Observer, 26 Feb. 2026
  • The driver was killed in the crash.
    — Elyssa Kaufman, CBS News, 8 Jan. 2026
  • There was no big crash on the final lap.
    — Zach Dean Outkick, FOXNews.com, 22 May 2026
  • Diaz died at the site of the crash.
    — City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Mar. 2026
  • She was not injured in the crash.
    — Mark Price, Charlotte Observer, 10 June 2026
  • Thompson did not ask what led to the crash.
    — Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 29 May 2026
  • Just crash after crash over years.
    — Asher Redd, FOXNews.com, 25 Apr. 2026
  • The child did not survive the crash.
    — Abigail Adams, PEOPLE, 6 Oct. 2025
  • The cause of the crash was not yet confirmed.
    — City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 May 2026
  • The cause of the crash is unknown at this time.
    — Katie Houlis, CBS News, 21 June 2026
  • Maybe that’s a good time to talk about your first win since the crash.
    — Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 27 May 2026
  • Two people on board the plane died in the crash.
    — Melina Khan, USA Today, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Both crash to the floor with a loud clatter.
    — Literary Hub, 11 June 2026
  • Bearman’s crash made that much clear.
    — Luke Smith, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2026
  • Here’s what to know about the fatal crash.
    — Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 4 Sep. 2025
  • The cause of the crash is unknown at this time.
    — Elyssa Kaufman, CBS News, 23 May 2026
  • The cause of the crash is unknown at this time.
    — Asal Rezaei, CBS News, 4 Mar. 2026
  • The cause of the crash is unknown at this time.
    — Elyssa Kaufman, CBS News, 20 June 2026
  • They weren't injured in the crash.
    — CBS News, 9 June 2026
  • The cause of the crash has not yet been revealed.
    — Cbs Baltimore Staff, CBS News, 23 May 2026

crash

3 of 3 adjective
  • In the post-crash years, Pennsylvania witnessed a rapid growth in drilling.
    — Whitney Mallett, Curbed, 30 Oct. 2021
  • The chinook catch rate eventually climbed back to pre-crash levels.
    — jsonline.com, 2 Sep. 2021
  • All on-board communication and video recordings in the helicopter were destroyed by the post-crash fire.
    — Alexandra Skores, CNN Money, 12 Sep. 2025
  • This allowed for a post-crash resumption of the decadeslong bull market in bonds that continued right up to the pandemic.
    — Red Jahncke, WSJ, 16 May 2022
  • Soon, the connected car could possibly help during such post-crash situations.
    — Steve Tengler, Forbes, 14 Mar. 2022
  • The Nova drones are said to be equipped with anti-crash technology that will be used to minimize bird strikes and collisions with other drones.
    — Jennifer Van Grove, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Apr. 2026
  • Just as housing played an outsized role in pre-crash financial markets, so does advertising in the digital economy.
    — Gilad Edelman, Wired, 5 Oct. 2020
  • It's called crash history alerts, and it's meant to warn drivers about dangerous hotspots, based on a combination of historical data plus road and traffic data.
    — Ars Staff, Ars Technica, 7 Nov. 2023
  • The five-page report also said investigators found no apparent pre-crash mechanical or airframe problems in the plane's remains.
    — Daniel McFadin, Arkansas Online, 18 Mar. 2023
  • The Bloomberg investigation found numerous instances of passengers who were killed or severely burned by post-crash fires when rescuers on the scene were unable to open the doors.
    — Chris Isidore, CNN Money, 18 Sep. 2025
  • In this company, only Sunak, who warned of the idiocy of Truss’s crash economic program, has much credibility.
    — Tom McTague, The Atlantic, 21 Oct. 2022
  • Tinkler Mendez is scheduled to decide Monday whether to suppress post-crash interviews from the trial and intends to start jury screening that afternoon.
    — Morgan Rynor, CBS News, 28 May 2026
  • But those sets needed to be redressed for all the other installments to represent the post-crash Maginot, plus there are lots of guest actors playing the crew, plus there are multiple action sequences.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 2 Sep. 2025
  • By mid-November, the Dow had lost almost half of its value and would not return to its pre-crash heights until November 1954.
    — Lorenzino Estrada, AZCentral.com, 28 Oct. 2025
  • Europe also has taken incremental measures to improve post-crash rescue and extrication protocols.
    — Bloomberg, Mercury News, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Ford Motor Company issued a recall for 2024 Mustangs due to issues with clutch pressure lines that could result in engine stalling, crash risk or fire.
    — Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA TODAY, 7 June 2024
  • In major traffic accident investigations — where law enforcement officials are working to determine the pre-crash movement of a vehicle, the point of impact and where the vehicle went afterward — the laser scanner is at times used with a drone.
    — Sean Emery, Oc Register, 30 Aug. 2025
  • Paltrow's attorneys have disputed the extent of Sanderson's injuries and post-crash disorientation, but both sides say the collision resulted in Sanderson's four broken ribs and a concussion.
    — Sam Metz, ajc, 28 Mar. 2023
  • Safety equipment includes forward collision warning with pedestrian detection and low-speed automatic emergency braking, post-crash braking and driver fatigue monitoring.
    — James Raia, Mercury News, 28 Sep. 2025
  • In commercial aircraft, Boeing’s largest franchise by far, the campaign to revamp manufacturing safety measures began in the post-crash period, under the close supervision of the FAA.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 1 June 2026
  • Beyond the surface-level plot similarities, Lost provided a blueprint for Yellowjackets’s gripping dual timelines—using pre-crash flashbacks to reveal the history of its myriad characters.
    — Hayley Maitland, Vogue, 22 Jan. 2022
  • The Regional Transportation District shut down train service and ran bus shuttles along the A Line on Friday morning after someone stole copper wiring along the rail corridor, disabling the agency’s anti-crash system for trains.
    — John Aguilar, Denver Post, 12 Sep. 2025
  • During the training, trainees will develop skills including emergency vehicle operations, defensive tactics, communications, hazardous materials, first-aid, post-crash investigations and truck inspections.
    — Post-Tribune Staff, chicagotribune.com, 15 Oct. 2021
  • In the late 1960s Singapore had embarked on a crash program of industrialization, offering incentives to multinational companies, especially in such high-tech fields as electronics and semiconductors, to set up factories on the island.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 10 Dec. 2022

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