fall apart

Example Sentences

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A complex array of financial levers exist to help everyone involved, from lenders and investors down to the lowliest subcontractor, to minimize their exposure should things fall apart.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026

"Fiction is about sharing experiences," he says -- a process that helps us to be "emotionally prepared when something serious happens to us in life, so we don't fall apart."

From Barron's • Mar. 5, 2026

Then, he satirizes conservatives’ discomfort with his Blackness by sitting silently as Martin Short, playing a nervous young Republican delivering a hackneyed diatribe, shudders in his presence before scampering offstage to fall apart.

From Salon • Feb. 22, 2026

Serbia’s President Aleksandar Vučić, who is also attending Davos, didn’t hide his pessimism about the months ahead as the international order continues to fall apart.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 23, 2026

I want her to see that if she’s not telling me the truth, my world is going to fall apart at the seams.

From "Sparrow" by Sarah Moon