come apart
Example Sentences
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Postage stamps used to come apart with a string of muted pops, their perforations separating serially like tiny zippers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
Using advanced imaging techniques and earthquake data, scientists have now seen this subduction zone starting to come apart.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 29, 2026
And you can already see the seams of the endless, exhausting effort to push back starting to come apart.
From Slate ● Nov. 5, 2024
He described how in some fragments, the carbon fibre layers had come apart - a known process called delamination.
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2024
Then I pulled until I thought my arms would come apart and my head would explode.
From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel
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