How to Use implosion in a Sentence

implosion

noun
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  • Evan describes the implosion in the back of the Rangers’ bullpen.
    — Sportsday Staff, Dallas News, 26 Apr. 2023
  • That was less than the $2.3 billion pulled in the week that followed FTX's implosion.
    — Caitlin Ostroff, WSJ, 13 Dec. 2022
  • Could actions that led to the Titan implosion be a crime?
    — Cara Tabachnick, CBS News, 29 June 2023
  • Some may look on this implosion with a sense of relief.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 21 July 2023
  • In the two years prior to the leaks that led to the group's implosion, their activities surged.
    — Dan Patterson, CBS News, 5 Apr. 2022
  • The agencies involved are still looking for clues as to what could've caused the sub's implosion this week.
    — Brenton Blanchet, Peoplemag, 23 June 2023
  • The 26-year-old’s fifth-inning implosion was in line with what the Bombers saw in his previous two starts.
    — James O'Connell, New York Daily News, 3 July 2024
  • Remains to be seen what this means for arguably the league's most electric athlete, who didn't make it to the end of 2021's late-stage implosion.
    — Nate Davis, USA TODAY, 5 Aug. 2022
  • The implosion of the comic-book industry got us to Number One.
    — Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 23 Aug. 2022
  • The debate last week — Biden’s implosion — was bad news for the Ukrainian people and their future.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 1 July 2024
  • The implosion is part of a $153 million upgrade project at the stadium.
    — Pete Martini, USA TODAY, 8 Jan. 2022
  • Cease needed 38 pitches to record five outs with an uneven performance that came on the heels of his implosion in a Game 1 loss to the Dodgers.
    — Jay Paris, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2024
  • Until last month's implosion of the Terra blockchain, stETH traded at a one-to-one ratio with ether.
    — Krisztian Sandor, Fortune, 17 June 2022
  • Its shares plunged earlier this week, raising the specter of a third major US bank implosion in days.
    — Ellen Francis, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Mar. 2023
  • But not everyone shares the desire to stay loyal to the bank after its implosion.
    — Catherine Thorbecke, CNN, 17 Mar. 2023
  • What was left of the historic building came down as planned in an implosion at 7:30 a.m. Central Daylight Time.
    — Lee Roop | Lroop@al.com, al, 29 Oct. 2022
  • More about the Titan vessel Follow our live blog for the latest updates as focus turns to finding the cause of the implosion.
    — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 23 June 2023
  • And so China is on the verge of a demographic implosion.
    — CBS News, 10 Aug. 2022
  • Monday night, the Cardinals choked on the dust produced by their own implosion.
    — Kent Somers, USA TODAY, 18 Jan. 2022
  • You were assisted by the implosion of the comic-book industry at that time.
    — Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 23 Aug. 2022
  • Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman were the other two people killed in the implosion.
    — Patrick Whittle, Fortune, 20 Sep. 2024
  • For a story about the messy implosion of two lives, there’s a stultifying neatness to Days of Wine and Roses.
    — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 28 Jan. 2024
  • Following the implosion, the scene was met with cheers and applause from people who watched the historic moment.
    — Gabrielle Rockson, People.com, 9 Oct. 2024
  • The impact of the firm’s implosion was immediate and sweeping.
    — David Yaffe-Bellany, New York Times, 9 June 2023
  • In this case, Gomes believes America would see something of a Liz Truss-like implosion.
    — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 16 Feb. 2024
  • The property’s implosion was planned for early on a weekday for less wind and traffic.
    — Bailey Schulz, USA TODAY, 10 Oct. 2024
  • The main purpose of the hearing is to uncover the facts related to the implosion and to make recommendations, the Coast Guard said.
    — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 27 Sep. 2024
  • But in the Bahamas, the implosion has meant not just lost fortunes but lost confidence in a dream of financial acclaim.
    — Tim Craig, Drew Harwell, Nitasha Tiku, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Nov. 2022
  • Repeated bullpen implosions tend to make a manager’s hair turn gray, so be sure to check back on David Ross and Pedro Grifol at the end of the season.
    — Lamond Pope, Chicago Tribune, 29 May 2023
  • Initially, the market believed the FTX implosion was the result of an old-fashioned bank run on the exchange's reserves.
    — Riley Gutiérrez McDermid, USA TODAY, 17 Nov. 2022

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