come undone

Example Sentences

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But, he says, that life has come undone.

From BBC • May 23, 2026

Much of Altman’s product vision has come undone.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

And then, inevitably, it would all come undone, leaving him in the wreckage, as if she were a tornado sweeping through the Midwest.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 20, 2024

People whispered that Nasser al-Astal had come undone, dazed by grief.

From New York Times • Dec. 17, 2023

The fiery knot of anger had come undone, unraveled, and Jerry realized as they drove back from the cemetery that something worse had taken its place—emptiness, a yawning cavity like a hole in his chest.

From "The Chocolate War" by Robert Cormier