fall apart

Example Sentences

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A deal with McCormick could come within weeks, assuming the talks don’t fall apart, people familiar with the matter said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026

They added these extraordinary efforts to hide his identity began to fall apart in September 2000, after he was charged with defacing a billboard in New York.

From BBC • Mar. 18, 2026

"Fiction is about sharing experiences," he says -- a process that helps us to be "emotionally prepared when something serious happens to us in life, so we don't fall apart."

From Barron's • Mar. 5, 2026

Then, he satirizes conservatives’ discomfort with his Blackness by sitting silently as Martin Short, playing a nervous young Republican delivering a hackneyed diatribe, shudders in his presence before scampering offstage to fall apart.

From Salon • Feb. 22, 2026

Of all people to fall apart in front of, why did it have to be Mrs. Gruver?

From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan