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
But I would have gone to pieces had they laughed or even smiled, I thought, for they couldn't laugh at him without laughing at me as well .
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
