fell apart
Example Sentences
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Their relationship fell apart after Agarwal suspected Lee of having an affair.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
But it fell apart within weeks after Iran started attacking ships to assert its control over the vital waterway.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
"I fell apart and just sobbed and sobbed," said the mum from St Neots, Cambridgeshire.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026
Islamabad was a leading mediator in talks that helped secure an April ceasefire that later fell apart.
From Barron's ● Aug. 24, 2026
The fussy biochemical setup had taken weeks to perfect—except each time the ribosomes were caught, they crumbled and fell apart.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
