go to pieces
Example Sentences
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The first 2014 entry convinced the audience to buy that Keanu Reeves’ assassin would go to pieces over a puppy.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2025
"It just made me go to pieces," Mrs Williams said.
From BBC • Mar. 31, 2025
“Are all the laws, but one, to go unexecuted, and the government itself go to pieces, lest that one be violated?” Lincoln asked a special session of Congress, that July.
From The New Yorker • Feb. 9, 2017
We never really worried that things would go to pieces the way they ultimately did.
From New York Times • Nov. 9, 2011
“I do miss them. They were good people. Not huggers or the types to go to pieces over loving someone. But good people.”
From "Shouting at the Rain" by Lynda Mullaly Hunt
