come apart
Example Sentences
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Using advanced imaging techniques and earthquake data, scientists have now seen this subduction zone starting to come apart.
From Science Daily • Apr. 29, 2026
It all began to come apart in 1980.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026
It is known to be unreliable under pressure, and its layers are known to come apart in a process called delamination.
From BBC • Aug. 5, 2025
The same team leaders driving stressed employees onward—perhaps promising a light at the end of the tunnel or, more likely, setting wildly high metrics to meet—are themselves starting to come apart at the seams.
From Slate • Aug. 1, 2024
And all of this would be very well, it would be rescuable, if she was not so angry with him over a broken vase that had come apart in his hands.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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