8 sentences with 'collapse'
Example sentences and phrases with the word collapse and other words derived from it.
• « Nurse Eberhardt, very concerned that Dwayne might suffer a cardiovascular collapse, covered him with new blankets and hot water bottles, and made sure the venoclysis apparatus was working properly. »
• « Around 2200 BC, two hundred years after the last pyramids were built, the Old Kingdom collapsed, giving rise to the First Intermediate Period. The reason for the collapse is unclear, but it probably had to do with the very rare occurrence of droughts. »
• « Some historians have argued that one of the main causes of the collapse of royal authority was the rise in power of the nobility: in other words, royal authority did not collapse first and lead to elites taking more power, the elites took power and thus weakened royal authority. »
• « The New Egyptian Kingdom collapsed around 1150 BCE. This collapse was part of a much larger pattern across the ancient Middle East and North Africa: the collapse of the Bronze Age itself. »
• « The great empires collapsed, a collapse from which it took some 100 years to recover, with new empires emerging as a consequence. »