If all goes as planned, beams of counter-rotating particles will race around the rings at nearly the speed of light, then crash together at high energies and extremely hot temperatures.

He hunkered down beside her just as a flaming beam from the ceiling crashed to the ground only inches away.

Great plastiform beams tore loose from their moorings and crashed to the floor ail around them.

The other good part for Steinbrenner: When that beam crashed into the seats, his leverage for a new stadium rose.

Other beams crashed onto the floor.

Before she could determine if any bones were broken, before she could even lift her face out of the spilled food, another beam crashed down, pinning her legs.

Hard to tell where the sounds were coming from: beams had crashed down into the window, there was nothing but a welter of mangled steel.

To my left, a wooden beam crashed.

Using giant accelerators with enormous electromagnets, scientists send beams of particles - protons and antiprotons - crashing into each other.

A wooden beam crashed down, smashing the white table into two complete and separate halves.