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
There was no going to a doctor, even if she felt, as she put it, “like I was falling to pieces inside.”
From New York Times • Dec. 6, 2016
One by one went the boards and the beams, falling to pieces with tinny clattering sounds, littering the wooden floors, the broken chairs, the smashed vases and shattered lanterns.
From "The Reader" by Traci Chee
