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become separated into pieces or fragments
The figurine broke
The freshly baked loaf fell apart
How To Use come apart In A Sentence
- In fact, the plastic or cloth covering can come apart, exposing the foam padding.
- We have two people working almost 24 hours a day rewrapping parcels that have come apart in the system.
- The upshot is that strong global and strong individual supervenience come apart “only when extrinsic properties are present in the supervenient set but disallowed from the subvenient base,” as Kim and others predicted (see Supervenience
- A couple of big-time scooter makers had to recall their products when they started to come apart as kids rode them.
- There is no seismic movement; the fabric of reality doesn't suddenly come apart at the seams.
- Few things are more disheartening than watching arrangements you've carefully nurtured come apart. Times, Sunday Times
- Miriam asked me to pull over and I swung the truck off the asphalt, jounced over a rut, and stopped beside a car so rusted it looked as if it might come apart in the wind. Miracles, Inc.
- Both men suffered facial injuries and one needed surgery to stitch together a piece of skin that had come apart from the left side of his nose.
- The worthies claimed that the jeeps had literally come apart during campaigning as they carried 20 to 25 campaigners over the worst possible terrain.
- Don't you hate it when motorbike/sidecar combinations come apart in films and the sidecar carries on on its own, usually ending up in a duck pond or hay stack?