How to Use collision course in a Sentence

collision course

noun
  • This big lie is setting them on some sort of collision course.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 17 June 2019
  • These two teams appear to be on a collision course to meet again in the final.
    — Mike Puzzanghera, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Oct. 2022
  • Or is Bumble too far along a collision course to save?
    — Andrew Nusca, Fortune, 7 Aug. 2025
  • What if the other person has the same idea, and their tilt puts both heads on a collision course?
    — Gregg Doyel, Indianapolis Star, 24 May 2018
  • Soon, it could even be used to push space debris away from a collision course with a satellite.
    — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Israel and Iran have appeared to be on a collision course for months.
    — Josef Federman, Fox News, 11 May 2018
  • That has put them on a collision course with states like Connecticut.
    — Lisa Hagen, Hartford Courant, 21 Apr. 2026
  • There, Uber is set on a fresh collision course with an old friend, Didi.
    — Aarian Marshall, WIRED, 12 June 2018
  • That disdain puts him on a collision course with Hemsworth’s Thor, a god by birth.
    — David Betancourt, Washington Post, 29 June 2022
  • Universes on a collision course can lead to the destruction of one or both of them.
    — Chris Smith, BGR, 14 May 2022
  • Iran is on a collision course with the West, one that has little to do with the nuclear file.
    — Jonathan Schanzer, The Atlantic, 11 Oct. 2017
  • The sides appear to be on an unavoidable collision course this season.
    — Torrey Hart, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2026
  • Butler look to be on a collision course to meet in the regional final for the second straight year.
    — Jason Frakes, The Courier-Journal, 22 Mar. 2021
  • That love affair was set on a collision course with Edward’s birthright to the British throne.
    — Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Dec. 2024
  • But 2024 is already shaping up to be quite the collision course.
    — Rachel Siegel, Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2024
  • Are the United States and China set on a collision course that ends in war?
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 6 Feb. 2017
  • But the evidence soon leads them to a cover-up, putting them on a collision course with the entire chain of command.
    — Greg Evans, Deadline, 23 June 2026
  • So the Giants are on a collision course with the dilemma to double down on a star running back as their bell cow.
    — Pat Leonard, courant.com, 15 July 2019
  • But the confidence of the White House sets up an inevitable collision course.
    — Astead W. Herndon, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2023
  • That set Greater Cincinnati on the collision course with Messi.
    — The Enquirer, 22 Aug. 2023
  • The decision was among the things that put the country on a collision course for the Civil War.
    — Time, 22 Apr. 2021
  • As tensions rise in the Gulf, America and Iran seem to be on a collision course.
    — A.k., The Economist, 22 July 2019
  • The Milky Way is on a collision course with Andromeda in about four billion years.
    — Fox News, 3 Oct. 2019
  • The Milky Way is on a collision course with the Andromeda galaxy.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 6 July 2020
  • That early whistle thrust the Knicks fan favorite into a collision course with the Frenchy.
    — Alejandro Avila Outkick, FOXNews.com, 11 June 2026
  • Humans could add a twist to the use of asteroids in the flyby idea and instead put them on a collision course with the moon, Gyuk says.
    — Maddie Bender, Scientific American, 18 June 2021
  • Biden's show of force puts him on a collision course with Sanders that will test who Democrats view as more electable in November.
    — Julie Pace, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Mar. 2020
  • Wood had a knack for being on a collision course with some of the pro football’s best quarterbacks of the 1960s.
    — Mark Inabinett | [email protected], al, 21 Apr. 2022
  • Wood had a knack for being on a collision course with some of the pro football's best quarterbacks of the 1960s.
    — Mark Inabinett | [email protected], al, 9 Apr. 2020
  • That put her on a collision course with Clint Barton/Hawkeye, who had hung up his Ronin gear for good.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 18 May 2022

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