Sentences with 'imploded'
Example sentences and phrases with the word imploded and other words derived from it.
• « The West's self-understanding as the most 'civilised' culture had imploded with the world wars, but the inventors of Western Civilisation as a concept were determined not only to rescue its legacy from that implosion, but to celebrate it as the only major historical legacy of relevance to the present. »
• « In Eastern Europe, the opposite is true: while the post-war order of command economy, communism and authoritarian one-party rule was maintained almost until the 1980s, in the end the whole system imploded, with lasting consequences for the region and the world. »