11.   At the cape point, the surf crashes around you in all directions.

12.   Autumn anemones effortlessly maintain their height without staking, while dahlias and asters crash down around them or stand gracelessly tied to supports.

13.   Blasts of lightning crashed around him.

14.   A bell brings not the slightest interruption in the waves of competing conversations crashing around him.

15.   But that was before last Sunday, when the real world came crashing down around Couch with a simple telephone call.

16.   Everything, however, is about to come crashing down around them.

17.   He kicked a garbage can until it wobbled, then tossed the water cooler into it before crashing around the corner of the dugout in a fit.

18.   Just when Bret Boone thought his season was crashing down around him , Tuesday night came along.

19.   Last June, the world was crashing in around Gen. Joseph Ralston of the Air Force.

20.   Meanwhile, in my head, where I lug the heavy stuff, a sentence by John Updike was crashing around like a rogue ball bearing.