fall to bits

Example Sentences

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“The challenge for you would be to give readers a road map through the work that would be illuminating rather than confusing,” she wrote, adding, “It will all fall to bits without a plan.”

From The New Yorker • Jul. 18, 2016

"Keeping busy is what is keeping us all going - if we had nothing to do, then I think we would all fall to bits," she had said.

From BBC • Jun. 20, 2013

It had always been that way, but now it seemed like she’d been holding it tight in preparation for this moment, for the inevitability that everything would again fall to bits.

From "Endangered" by Eliot Schrefer

“They’d fall to bits in the water,” said Millard.

From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs

Then Ilona said she couldn’t go until the old mortar which had been in use for generations should fall to bits at a blow from the pestle.

From Mighty Mikko A Book of Finnish Fairy Tales and Folk Tales by Fillmore, Parker