fall apart
Example Sentences
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The biggest harbinger that things were about to fall apart in Iran didn’t come from the thwarted anger of the country’s opposition or the frustrated hopes of young people hungry for more personal freedom.
The fraud fell apart in August, when authorities say the new controller discovered “irregularities” in the financial records dating back to 2018, Butler’s first year with the organization.
From Los Angeles Times
Patched up because of a growing list of injuries, City are seeing their title challenge fall apart.
From BBC
"My world fell apart... The pain felt by a parent who loses a child is unimaginable," he told Swiss broadcaster RTS.
From Barron's
By effectively "pre-folding" the structure at a molecular level, the plastic can fall apart thousands of times faster than usual.
From Science Daily
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