falling to pieces
Example Sentences
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“GARDENING IN A WAR ZONE” is a powerful and moving short documentary about cultivating hope and the beauty of nature even as your world is falling to pieces.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 9, 2024
After reading his review of the 2019 Maserati Quattroporte GTS GranSport one imagines the car simply falling to pieces under the weight of Neil’s judgement.
From Fox News • Dec. 31, 2019
"More of our students are likely to come through without burning themselves out and without falling to pieces, and without feeling that they are stuck in a place they cant get out of."
From BBC • Jun. 25, 2018
But for every fish camp that is populated, I see far more that are abandoned, falling to pieces, their old tarps so sun-faded they are patchwork now.
From The Guardian • May 13, 2018
My life was falling to pieces and I was acutely aware of it.
From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright
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