break into pieces
Example Sentences
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Other times, the spiral might break into pieces, and each piece might slowly turn into a planet.
From Space Scoop • Oct. 24, 2025
Anyone who has ever baked a cake knows the despair of trying to turn it out of the pan, only to see it stick or break into pieces.
From Washington Post • Apr. 4, 2022
“It will break into pieces, and they will get smaller and smaller, until she becomes part of the solar wind,” said Fox.
From The Guardian • Aug. 10, 2018
In the case of the sixbar wrasse, the captive fish was given pellets that were too large to swallow and too hard to break into pieces using only its jaws.
From Scientific American • Jun. 8, 2017
Nothing seemed to have changed about him, yet my new, fragile life was about to break into pieces.
From "Purple Hibiscus" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
