fall apart

Example Sentences

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But our focus has always been more on the parts of us that come together in a crisis, versus the parts of us that fall apart.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 30, 2026

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

"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

“When you get on your bike, don’t you expect it to hold you up? Not fall apart when you pedal?”

From "Fish in a Tree" by Lynda Mullaly Hunt