gone to pieces
Example Sentences
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It’s simultaneously uptight and gone to pieces, lakeside and volcanic.
From New York Times ● May 26, 2022
While Roosevelt campaigned in 1912 to return to the presidency, prominent US historian Henry Adams said: "His mind has gone to pieces… his neurosis may end in a nervous collapse, or acute mania."
From BBC ● Apr. 15, 2019
GMT16:35 88 min: Sweden have gone to pieces, and Johansson completely miskicks in the area, facing his own goal.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 14, 2015
Deep in Hell, in the ninth ring of the eighth circle, Dante encounters a group of souls who have gone to pieces.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 19, 2015
They had kept it too long and it had gone to pieces and lost its quality and color.
From "A Farewell To Arms" by Ernest Hemingway
