fall away
Example Sentences
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Without warning, without a hint of noise, the side of the mountain fell away.
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"It's a combination of a few things, but certainly there is some residual trauma about the two seasons where we felt on track for the title and suddenly fell away," she added.
From BBC
They had seen so much, he thought; and now everything else had fallen away.
From Literature
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"There's progress today on certain things. I don't want to be cryptic, but I would hate to say something was certain and it fell away."
From BBC
Then suddenly—woompf—they burst out of the fire and the ground fell away, and Akira went flying off her horse.
From Literature
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