How To Use Crashing In A Sentence

The bombardment of the GPO had fascinated MacMurrough: the annunciatory puffs of smoke and the flames that roared to greet them; then the crashing gun’s report, the shell’s eruption—an illogical sequence, effect before cause, an object lesson in the madness of war. At Swim, Two Boys
Now, though, insurers find they are increasingly paying out for teenagers crashing expensive vehicles that they would not normally have the ghost of a chance of obtaining cover for.
While he pours her feelings out, she treads very carefully and doesn't make the reader feel as though they are crashing into her personal life or snooping into her diary.
Spring suspension had not yet arrived, and the carriage body jounced against a hard leather strap that kept it from crashing through the wheels. The King's Best Highway
So far, he's not aware of a train derailing or crashing as a result of such ‘pranks’.

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Take in views of the Carmel Valley Hills and enjoy the spectacular scenery of the Monterey pine forests, rocky coastline and vistas of crashing surf, as a chorus of sea lions barks on the rocks.
But witnesses said a section of the theatre then collapsed, crashing on to people below. The Sun
The court heard he was cautioned for stealing and crashing his father's car in February 2000.
In her earlier, greater work, someone - in the end, among the disasters and the funny bits and the painful stumbles and everyone crashing out in some way - would have come through smiling.
Put simply, National Geographic picked up on a story of a couple who, having set the autotimer on their camera to take a holiday snap of themselves, found their picture ruined by a curious squirrel 'portrait-crashing'. Smoking Guns and the Morality of Parliamentary Privilege
Driven by hysterical choirs and crashing percussion, the Latin liturgy is indeed rather scary.
This may be more crashingly obvious for a writer who doesn't write front to back. Mrissa: Story going wrong panel addendum
In a Star Trek-inspired turn of events, he ends up forwarding centuries through time, crashing onto an alien planet where roles between simians and humans are reversed.
Riding inside a tube with the wave crashing down around the surfer is particularly impressive.
Police said the car jumped a red light and collided with a white van before crashing into the bridge. Times, Sunday Times
This car was left pointing upwards when it landed on its back end after crashing. The Sun
It was impossible to hear anything over the deafening crashing of the desks or the unbearable exploding of the hallways.
It hit a kerb and lamp post before careering back across Meggeson Avenue, crashing into the parked cars and overturning.
But he brought these "ignudi" crashing down to earth, revamping them as a sequence of sexily insalubrious half-length boys, interacting equally with spectacular still-life elements and with the viewer. The Misery Memoirist
A quarter of an hour thus passed; then suddenly one of the elephants trumpeted, and a tremendous crashing in the reeds ensued.
An eerie orange glow lights up the devastation of Bijlmermeer - the Amsterdam suburb set ablaze by a crashing El Al plane.
They hear a loud noise (Andrew crashing the keys on his piano) and run away.
The incident happened on September 1, when a driver careered off a road adjoining the lake, crashing through a drystone wall and ploughing into the water.
Wulfgar and his mount came crashing after. THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
He makes us see and hear with him the tens of thousands of stone cutters and the ring of their tools squaring the "setts"; and then one platoon after another stepping forward and laying down its row of stones followed by rank after rank of men with the paviours 'rammers, which rise and fall at the sweep of the band-master's rods, keeping time in a stately music as they advance; the continuous falling and crashing of the trees as other thousands of hands ply the axes along the lines, that creep, slowly, but visibly, on through the Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2
It's just like the issue of Aida being one of the greatest of all operas and still being a crashing bore.
… reminds me of an image Deirdre Bair sketches in her biography of the game young Samuel used to play diving fearlessly from the tops of tall trees, crashing through branches to the ground. 2009 May 05 | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS
Then I too am aware of a rather ponderous crashing about. Times, Sunday Times
A few kilometres away from Madras city on the Coromandal coast, the boom of chisel and hammer rises in the sandy wilderness, above crashing waves and soughing winds.
I've heard a good astronomical theory that the moon was created by a planetoid crashing into the earth a long time ago, possibly carrying with it the seeds for life itself.
Her two-song cameo, near the concert's midpoint, had all the rude conflagrant force of a meteor crashing onto the stage. NYT > Home Page
He was crashing the gears because he was so nervous.
A Russian astrologer is suing NASA for crashing a probe into a comet, claiming it has distorted her horoscope. Archive 2005-07-01
The entire fantastical creation was crashing about her like a cardboard city in an earthquake. COMPULSION
The comrades he lost were those burnt to death in aircraft crashing in flames. Times, Sunday Times
Winds of 120 mph and drenching rain tore off rooftops, hurled debris through the air and sent huge waves crashing into buildings.
When the dinner hour arrives, he bangs about as clamorously as possible, crashing the door into the coatrack, simulating a coughing fit on his way out, all to ensure that Eileen across the hall hears him leaving for his supposed dinner plans, although no such plans exist. 'The Imperfectionists'
Unluckily for her, we were cuffed together, so she came crashing down with me.
Its door swung open and shut with the regularity of a bass drum complementing the splash and cymbal of the crashing waves. THE MANANA MAN
We could hear waves crashing on/against the shore.
On your left as you head north are the crashing waves of the Pacific, the best navigation aid you could ask for. Times, Sunday Times
Eastwood's try four minutes later sent Leeds crashing to their sixth defeat in nine matches.
That news sent its to shares crashing below 160p.
Blood gushed and furniture was sent crashing over. FRIENDS FOR LIFE
Overhead, a passing troop of red-faced mangabeys hooted in derision before crashing off through the canopy, while a nine-inch millipede with a body like stainless steel crawled across my hand and into the leaf litter.
Then the amtracs came in, crashing through the swali-covered fence near the front gate.
The system keeps crashing and no one is able to figure out why.
With the dance floor set firmly in their sights the crashing breaks, mammoth guitar riffs and vocoders are unleashed with a reckless regard for human safety.
I don't want any of you children crashing around upstairs while your father's asleep.
At a deeper level, it seems to me that he is a world-class crashing bore.
While you’re crossing this beautiful site, you’re sharing the place with the iguanas, the freshness of the wind, and the magical sounds of the crashing waves.
What is the mechanism that brings capitalism crashing down?
Screen legends have always taken the inadvertent production of the odd crashing B-movie in their stride and this one's an absolute corker. Times, Sunday Times
Niagara's recurring invocation of the sound of water, the susurration and crashing of the falls, brings Rhys consciously, at first inexplicably, to mind.
The windscreen cracked and the elephant came forward again, crashing into the door.
I was expecting to hear waves, wind, drops of water, a few puffins chirping away, perhaps even some crashing sounds as ice falls into the sea.
It is Meredith who unwittingly brings Tom Ripley crashing to earth when it seems that he has eluded danger and gotten away without punishment for his dark deeds.
Some people just use onomatopoeia, while others insist on miming the playing of drums and crashing of cymbals.
This former smart hurdler was going well when crashing out at this track in November. The Sun
Some little widget or seal could let go, crashing them to the ground. WITHOUT REMORSE
It might be the buggiest iPad app so far, with a habit of crashing at odd moments. Post-gazette.com - News
The occupants of the car drove off at high speed, crashing into a small bridge on the estate, before heading towards Castledermot.
He might have outwatched me, though I kept amazingly still, but the hounds were crashing through the underbrush below, and he must needs be off. The Hills of Hingham
And frankly, there's simply no excuse for being a crashing great bore in a switched-on, wired-up era which lets you tune in to the best of the world's news and culture faster than you can stifle a yawn.
Her shoulder brushed a fragile stalactite, sending it crashing to the ground. MINUTES TO BURN
The self-propagating, rapidly spreading worms targeted Windows 2000 and Windows XP operating systems, causing debilitating network surges and crashing some machines.
Then an observer in nearby Mineola saw the Waco dive at a house and pull up just before crashing into its roof.
However, he lost his momentum during the flip, and his carefully executed spin turned into a wobble, sending him crashing into the floor below.
The car skidded and went out of control, crashing into an oncoming truck.
Australia dipped as they lost composure and as series after series of scrums went crashing together. Times, Sunday Times
There was a crashing of curtains and curtain-poles and a squawking and squalling of attendants as my hands closed on Chong Mong-ju's throat. Chapter 15
Niagara's recurring invocation of the sound of water, the susurration and crashing of the falls, brings Rhys consciously, at first inexplicably, to mind.
The towrope snapped, and the towed car veered across the road before crashing into the side of the bus.
If, on the other hand, you're looking for two to three minutes of crashing guitars and ear-grabbing hooks at a time, feel free to add a point or two. submissions PopMatters
He downed the drink in one gulp and sent the glass crashing into the flames of the open hearth embedded in the left wall.
In breathless silence the little group of spectators watched his movements, and when, with sharply exhaled breath, he planted a crashing "facer" straight from the shoulder squarely upon the leathern disk they sprang eagerly forward to note the result. The Copper Princess A Story of Lake Superior Mines
Marvin runs, slipping on a banana peel, crashing into a mound of stacked bowling pins.
But for the record, crashing a bobsled is not something to be taken lightly. Fast lane: Holcomb clinches World Cup title with sick crew
Kim Kirchen of Luxembourg, three-time former world titlist Oscar Freire of Spain and Scott Nydam of Sebastopol, Calif., all abandoned with undetermined injuries after crashing during the stage. Leipheimer keeps lead as Cavendish wins fourth stage
In the distance, I heard the sound of footsteps crashing through underbrush.
Normally in bad sci-fi, even after crashing, spaceships work without a problem the second time they start them up.
As I understand it, a certain Senator with a famous last name that rhymes with “Zennady” used that very rasoning to get out of any and all penalties after crashing his vehicle in a concreate barrier in Washington while falling-down drunk, so the police certainly seem to think it applies to criminal conduct the officer at the scene was prtty angry about it, IIRC. The Volokh Conspiracy » The Arrest Clause:
The fire brigade and police took hundreds of calls as high winds brought trees, telephone and power lines crashing down and damaged buildings.
The song has a stormy quality that lends itself to images of waves crashing violently against rocky shorelines.
Don't be surprised if gagsters manage to smuggle atomic bombs and crashing aircraft into the story.
A network built upon trust and cooperation comes crashing down when thugs and goons roll through the neighborhood.
Trees were crashing down around either side of the campsite as hillsides slipped away in the deluge of rain - all in a day's work for a surveyor of the time.
The jet sped off the end of the runway, crossed a busy highway, and struck several cars before crashing into a warehouse.
Then the full orchestra lets rip for the next phrases, marked fortissimo, with cymbals crashing. The Splendid Start to a Farewell to Opera
Looks promising but after a few clicks it's always crashing (Win7 x64, latest iTunes) Does anyone else have this problem? singularity0821 blash ITuner Is The One iTunes Helper To Rule Them All | Lifehacker Australia
A combination of gusty weather and the relative inexperience of the pilot led to a gyrocopter going out of control and crashing, killing two men, an inquest heard.
She went four more years without hospitalization, but the stress of academic life came crashing down once again.
A five-year-old boy took his family's automatic 4x4 on a four-mile "joyride" before crashing it into a wall, it has been disclosed. IcBirmingham
An instant later Du Mont, who was in the lead, leaped swiftly backward and, crashing into the heavier and clumsier Xavier bowled him over into the snow, where both wallowed helplessly, held down by Xavier's heavy pack. The Gun-Brand
This is a galaxy crashing into another one. The Sun
Police were alerted by a man who she nearly ran over before crashing into an embankment. The Sun
You're inviting a whole world of woe to come crashing down on your shoulders there. Times, Sunday Times
The metal roof of what used to be a factory or warehouse has been sent crashing to the ground. Times, Sunday Times
We had spent the last hour and a half trying to program our computer to make pretty patterns but all we got was a line, a squiggle and crashing computers.
Either side, water plummets over the dizzying drop in great cascading sheets, crashing down on the rocks far below.
The missiles glided through the air crashing through the remaining soldiers.
After two full-fledged weeks of coins clashing and crashing into the jugs set up in Branksome's hallowed halls, an astonishing $9,000 worth of pennies had been collected. Marissa Bronfman: Greg Mortenson Inspires Branksome Hall to Raise $9,000 in Pennies for Peace Drive
Sam awoke to the sound of ocean waves crashing against the earth and seagulls squalling over head.
I don't want any of you children crashing around upstairs while your father's asleep.
They were receiving frantic calls regarding accounts and computers crashing all weekend long, and they had no idea why.
To indulge my desire for year-round soft fruit, chunks of ice cap are crashing into the sea. Times, Sunday Times
Frank puzzled over the moves on the arête as well but, without the threat of crashing onto the edges below, he was less hesitant than I had been.
As I walk the halls, I nervously await one of the rattling tchotchkes to come crashing down onto the quaintly undulating creaky floorboards.
Occasionally, comets even get bumped into orbits that send them crashing into the sun.
Upon its promptness rests its existence, for if it sits idly by, soothfully proclaiming that what ought not to be cannot be, it will find the roof beams crashing about its head. THE CLASS STRUGGLE
As soon as I put weight on my feet I lost my balance and fell, only a quick grab for the headboard of my bed saved me from crashing to the floor.
It’s your heart and you are sharing it with us and if people feel the need to judge you harshly from a digital distance, I say they can take their mean-ole selves to the land of crashing hard drives and slow internet connections. A Brother By Any Other Name | Her Bad Mother
It was non-stop singing, shouting and crashing about. The Sun
I don't want any of you children crashing around upstairs while your father's asleep.
The hastily lowered ladder leaned at the back, looking as though it would come crashing down at any moment.
They are soft-shelled, halfformed, you can bring them crashing down with a single word. Times, Sunday Times
Cheryl rolled to her left to avoid another crashing of the wooden club, her saber now drawn from its hidden place beneath her cloak.
A huge crashing noise came from outside, and the building shook.
There then followed an hour and ten minutes of typing, card swiping and crashing of various computers that culminated in him printing off an agreement form full of invalid bank details.
Martyn Hunter, playing Ben, provided most of the rare comic moments - gleefully crashing on to the stage riding a stolen bicycle, and forever punctuating his speech with a sudden, wicked laugh.
The days of desperately trying to escape the clutches of some crashing bore in the corner of a nightclub are long gone.
The culprits skidded round the green in a Peugeot car before crashing into a tree sapling and running off.
The logbooks of Royal Air Force navigator Fred Shaw recorded that he saw a small, single-engined monoplane spiraling out of control and crashing into the water. Five People Who Disappeared Off The Face Of The Earth | myFiveBest
The suspended beauty of dining upstairs comes at the expense of no acoustical buffer, and when the bar is clamorous, the sound rises up, rounds the arches, and comes crashing onto this suspended atoll like a final smackdown.
The dog owner held the leash and said "Don't worry, cous', he don't bite," but the dog kept straining until we drew a crowd and Salvy brought his right fist crashing down. Legend
Note the seagull crashing into the sea ending, as Donny's ashes are blown into their faces.
I watch you every day! posted 4 months ago by domy (guest) * Heya, who was that guy who kept crashing after get'n some? Fast Lane Daily - Auto News. Fast Cars. Fast and Fresh. Every day.
He heard their crashing, giggling descent, swinging his beam away from them so they would be in complete darkness.
Fans had barely caught their breath, however, before cricket pavilions around the world reverberated to the crashing of more heroes falling from their pedestals.
Police were alerted by a man who she nearly ran over before crashing into an embankment. The Sun
Twice this year, little leaks have caused ceilings to become waterlogged and come crashing down.
The ripples silently hit the tub before crashing waves slapped against the metal sides.
As the economy was on the verge of crashing around us, the president-elect decided to make his bet overwhelmingly with the Wall Street-oriented side of the party, the folks who were proteges and aligned ideologically with Bob Rubin. Mike Lux: Restoring the Balance
A popular Hampshire club cricketer died after crashing his car while double the drink-drive limit following a night out with friends.
Late Autumn might have with its predecessor, the similarities are more significant, particularly a quality that Michael Atkinson attributed to Ozu's Zen-infused sensibility translates on film to something like the art form's nascent formal beauty: patiently watching little happen, and the meditative moments around the nonhappening, until it becomes crashingly apparent that lives are at stake and the whole world is struggling to be born. ' GreenCine Daily
Most impressively, he does a good job of projecting his voice over the crashingly loud arrangements that seem to be the norm tonight. 'American Idol' 2011: Top 13 perform
On entering the water, I am immediately on an undersea treadmill, legs pumping furiously, pressure gauge falling like the altimeter of a crashing aircraft.
Both feature a young woman named Melinda crashing a dinner party.
The plate went crashing to the floor.
Woman as storm, as a weather front, as tornado, hurricane, twin dark boobs like the pillowed chaos of clouds, thunderheads, crashing against the shirt she wears, my shirt, my favorite shirt. She said
The speedboat bounced along sending a cascade of waves crashing through the calmness and bashing into the smooth green walls of buildings that rose tall and defiant from the canal's glassy depths.
He'd watched some sort of long projectile fly up into the air, turn, and come crashing back down. THE CRASH OF HENNINGTON
I don't want any of you children crashing around upstairs while your father's asleep.
Ejected from the bar late at night, I find myself gatecrashing a 21st birthday party.
Crashing chords pound out from the piano line while the clarinet speaks in a tonal, coolly cerebral mode.
Many times I slipped over on the steep icy slopes, losing my footing and crashing down on the rubble.
I was given a chance in saloon cars but after crashing the first two times I was refused a third drive. The Sun
As atool for evaluating players it appears somewhere between crashingly obvious and the most frightful rot. Hilarity rates high on Capello Index
He died in 1912 after crashing into the ocean off Santa Monica, California.
I think he has simply demonstrated once again why he has become such a crashing bore.
In Chandler, Ariz., in February, a female spectator was killed by a tire that flew off a crashing dragster at Chandler's Firebird International Raceway for the NHRA Arizona Nationals. California Off-Road Race Crash: Truck Plows Into Crowd, Kills 8, Injures 12
It is a lively sound, a busy tinkling, the incessant brattling and from time to time rushing, crashing sound of this falling ice, and trees suddenly erecting themselves when relieved of their loads.
I think he has simply demonstrated once again why he has become such a crashing bore.
I must admit it's not quite the full-on headfuck I'd hoped for, but it does make very splendid listening, especially as I now live on the seafront not too far from DMT and regularly have gigantic waves crashing outside my window. Don Bradshaw-Leather
The comrades he lost were those burnt to death in aircraft crashing in flames. Times, Sunday Times
But he brought these "ignudi" crashing down to earth, revamping them as a sequence of sexily insalubrious half-length boys, interacting equally with spectacular still-life elements and with the viewer. The Misery Memoirist
THE father of the co-pilot on flight MH370 is furious at claims his son committed suicide by crashing the plane. The Sun
This isn't to say that it is, to borrow from one of its songs, a crashing bore.
Good friend of mine took the emergency stop option instead of crashing into the Dombas ski-lift queue, unfortunately, inside the snowbank was a several fence-posts and connecting strands of wire. Army Rumour Service
The entire fantastical creation was crashing about her like a cardboard city in an earthquake. COMPULSION
It takes viewers crashing through black holes, cosmic stardust and primal gases as its characters brave heat, flies, noxious toads and crazy locals to unravel the mysteries of the universe.
I heard crashing from inside, and the door budged.
The sea crashing against the pebble beach whispered rumours of war in this ancient landscape.
The metal roof of what used to be a factory or warehouse has been sent crashing to the ground. Times, Sunday Times
Waves with a fetch of thousands of miles come to land here, in a crashing fury some days, or gently, as today.
When we went out the first time, a piercing wind had whipped the tops off the crashing waves to send biting showers of stinging sea water at us.
And if the sound of the surf crashing against the rocks isn't doom-laden enough, Flanders is sure to echo the sound by walking to center stage and intoning "Boom!" every once in a while in a meaningful manner. Michael Giltz: Theater Reviews: "Nixon In China!" Olympia Dukakis On A Milkcart! Bloody Ethan Hawke! More!
Which will leave me to here comes santa claus all alone in crashing brass. Cymbals Guy
The vault in the upper basilica partially collapsed bringing two diagonally opposite quadrants in the east end and nave of the main vault crashing 22 metres to the floor, where they broke into thousands of pieces.
Blood gushed and furniture was sent crashing over. FRIENDS FOR LIFE
At the moment the front runners are ‘a crude Yank crashing the Brit party’ and a ‘bunch of sinister and heavily armed globalist illuminati who seek to infect the entire world’.
A deafening bray shattered the dark, and the forest erupted in front of him with a clishmaclaver of crashing and startled shouts. A Breath of Snow and Ashes
Blood gushed and furniture was sent crashing over. FRIENDS FOR LIFE
When he is gone she has dreams of his plane crashing, of an unavoidable jack-knife in the fog of Highway 101, of Ted trying to call her with bloody hands, his legs already mangled by a head on collision. A Wedding
I have visited Friends Reunited and found the whole thing a crashing bore.
This hopefully, kept everyone from crashing into everyone else.
Then at around midday the water was taken over by windsurfers crashing through the waves.
When an army of corpses animated by cogwork rises from the dark waters of the rive Reine and threatens to upset the balance of power in Veridon, Jacob Burn must discover who is behind this undead atrocity before the city comes crashing down around him. Tim Akers Sequel and 'Heart of Veridon' review
This trainee air force pilot died last week, crashing his training aircraft while on a navigational training flight.
However, when playgoers are asked to sit back and accept all that's not rational, the narrative wrecking ball makes a direct hit and everything comes crashing down.
Nigel Humphrey, 50, from Belvedere Avenue, Lancing, narrowly missed crashing into 44-year-old Anne Ford and hit her 'lollypop' with his Landrover as she stood terrified in the middle of West Street, Sompting, last July. Undefined
That I wasn't really cross with him for crashing my attempt at quiet contemplation. Times, Sunday Times
Police said the car jumped a red light and collided with a white van before crashing into the bridge. Times, Sunday Times
But this day had sent my spirits and my ego crashing back down to earth, or rather water.
She whispered his name achingly against his skin; need overcoming reason as her de fences came crashing down, her body pliant and eager against his, her mouth trembling as she caressed his skin. A Cure For Love
We'd all go home feeling crashingly underwhelmed.
An eerie orange glow lights up the devastation of Bijlmermeer - the Amsterdam suburb set ablaze by a crashing El Al plane.
The title track tries to deflate its portentous musical backing of crashing cymbals and thunderous pianos with daft lyrics about needing a new eiderdown and some binoculars.
The emerging thaw sent sheets of ice crashing from the roof of the solitary log cabin. Vignette: A Writing Exercise « Write Anything
The storm cleared its throat across the pan and then broke directly overhead, the thunder and lightning simultaneously strobing and crashing.
He's also crashingly, loudly, agonizingly wrong to order the police to confiscate legally owned private property.
Then we'd take a swim in the crashing surf before hiking back to our kayaks.
But what stops the entire edifice crashing down around their ears is the music. Times, Sunday Times
The New York Post quoted one witness as saying, “The Ferarri took a sharp right to the left and lost it, swerving across the lanes, taking out a lamppost and a newsstand” before crashing into the pizza parlor. P2pnet World Headlines – May 6, 2009
I wondered if the kite's head-stick gets its name from the part of the anatomy it ends up embedded in as it comes crashing back to earth.
If some great pinnacle of ice was to come crashing down on me, why would God put out a hand and stop it just to save me?
She was involved in a horrific smash, crashing into two cars which had already been involved in an accident.
Zack was throughly impressed by the waves crashing on the breakwater, but was disappointed at the paucity of good skipping stones.
Evacuating the offices, they heard loud bangs and crashing noises in the loft above their office and raised the alarm.
The center of the floor is brightly lit and covered with a white flooring where the performance takes place with minimal props, including only a few chairs, and at one unexpected moment a table that comes crashing from the rafters, splitting in two. Archive 2008-02-01

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