How to Use come crashing down in a Sentence

come crashing down

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  • The last few months have seen all those castle-in-the-sky dreams come crashing down.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 12 Feb. 2021
  • At some point, a flash flood must have come crashing down the canyon with enough force to clear it out.
    — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2021
  • Coal prices have come crashing down from last year’s records.
    — Ryan Dezember, WSJ, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Their season would come crashing down the next week with a 52-14 loss to Arizona.
    — Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2023
  • The Angels’ season seems to have come crashing down all at once.
    — Elvia Limón, Los Angeles Times, 25 Aug. 2023
  • But back to the hot start - what about it might be real, and what might come crashing down at any moment?
    — Tony Blengino, Forbes, 3 May 2023
  • But back to the hot start - what about it might be real, and what might come crashing down at any moment?
    — Tony Blengino, Forbes, 3 May 2023
  • In an earthquake, the top-heavy apartments can come crashing down.
    — Sandhya Kambhampati, Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2023
  • All markets can do is hope things don’t come crashing down.
    — William Pesek, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2023
  • But be warned: Your teenage crushes may come crashing down.
    — Carolyn Wells, Longreads, 27 Oct. 2022
  • The surface may not be melting but the moss and dirt under the snowpack will draw the sun’s heat and the weight of the pack will come crashing down the mountain.
    — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Apr. 2023
  • By Monday, Stephanie’s world had come crashing down around her.
    — Andrea Cavallier, NBC News, 23 Oct. 2020
  • One of the top pitchers in all of baseball in May, Skubal has come crashing down his past three outings.
    — Tony Garcia, Detroit Free Press, 28 June 2022
  • Over the past week, however, prices have come crashing down.
    — Paul Vigna, WSJ, 15 June 2021
  • In a home with a pet or a small child running around, one wrong move and all your precious stemware can come crashing down.
    — Megan Wahn, Bon Appétit, 24 Aug. 2023
  • From Sarah Valenzuela: The Angels’ season seems to have come crashing down all at once.
    — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug. 2023
  • The Knickerbocker’s roof had come crashing down, overwhelmed by the weight of the record-breaking snowfall.
    — Kellie B. Gormly, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Jan. 2022
  • It was destined to come crashing down, and the polar vortex of 2021 was the assault that finally broke the Texas grid.
    — Arkansas Online, 21 Feb. 2021
  • Now that wildlife is depleted and hemmed in, climate change has come crashing down.
    — Catrin Einhorn Thea Traff, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2023
  • The perfect success story had been written in the stars, only for those stars to all come crashing down.
    — Richard Newby, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Mar. 2022
  • After the Taliban seized power and this assistance was frozen by donors, many of the gains of the last 20 years threatened to come crashing down.
    — New York Times, 8 Aug. 2022
  • This threatens further floods as that water could join the rain that has come crashing down from the northern mountains.
    — Mushtaq Yusufzai, NBC News, 30 Aug. 2022
  • Eli’s life has come crashing down around him, but Nick’s encases him like concrete.
    — Olivia Waite, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2024
  • Don’t forget one of the important lessons of the Great Recession, which is that home values can come crashing down.
    — Michelle Singletary, Washington Post, 13 July 2022
  • That could all come crashing down with a loss to Georgia State, which returns 77% of its production from a team that went 8-5 last season.
    — Baltimore Sun, 2 Sep. 2022
  • Auburn’s defense seemed to find its footing during the final month of the season, but the unit saw its late-season success come crashing down in the Iron Bowl.
    — Tom Green | [email protected], al, 28 Nov. 2022
  • The rains flooded highways in Boca Raton, and the strong gusts caused a giant tree to come crashing down on a home that appeared to be near Tampa.
    — Marlene Lenthang, NBC News, 29 Sep. 2022
  • After trading above $84/barrel last month, oil prices have since come crashing down.
    — Jj Kinahan, Forbes, 3 May 2023
  • But when Pecola shows up with Claudia and Frieda at the house where her mother works, the hierarchies of race and class come crashing down on her.
    — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Of course, the deal may yet come crashing down around Merkel if Greece and Turkey can’t implement it, but the agreement at least gives Merkel a chance to counterbalance rampant and racist populism with pragmatism and humanitarianism.
    — Claire Greenstein, Foreign Affairs, 6 Apr. 2016

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