fall apart

Example Sentences

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An all-stock deal could come within weeks, assuming the talks don’t fall apart, the people said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026

They added these extraordinary efforts to hide his identity began to fall apart in September 2000, after he was charged with defacing a billboard in New York.

From BBC • Mar. 18, 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

I play the principal at the school, watching the entire thing fall apart around them.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 25, 2026

She was not going to let herself fall apart.

From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer