Sentence examples of "s'effondrer" in French

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La tour va s'effondrer. The tower is going to collapse.
Cet édifice menace de s'effondrer. This building is about to collapse.
La maison était sur le point de s'effondrer. The house was on the verge of collapse.
L'ancien régime est sur le point de s'effondrer. The obsolete regime is about to collapse.
L'économie du pays est sur le point de s'effondrer. The country's economy is about to collapse.
Nous ne pouvons pas rester là. Le toit est sur le point de s'effondrer ! We can't stay here. The roof is about to collapse!
Les ingénieurs ont fait exploser le pont, car il était sur le point de s'effondrer. The engineers blew up the bridge because it was about to collapse.
Le titre s'effondra du jour au lendemain. The stock collapsed overnight.
Le bâtiment s'est effondré il y a trois ans. The building crumbled to pieces three years ago.
Le communisme s'étant effondré, le capitalisme est maintenant accusé de vouloir "dominer le monde". As communism has collapsed, capitalism is now accused of trying to "dominate the world."
C'est un pont en béton, mais différents endroits sur sa longueur se sont effondrés. It's a concrete bridge, but several places along its length have collapsed.
S'il y a un gros tremblement de terre, il est tout à fait probable que la maison s'effondrera. If there’s a big earthquake, the house could really collapse!
Tous ses projets soigneusement conçus commencèrent à s'effondrer un à un. All her carefully made plans began to unravel one by one.
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