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become separated into pieces or fragments
The figurine broke
The freshly baked loaf fell apart -
lose one's emotional or mental composure
She fell apart when her only child died -
break or fall apart into fragments
The Sphinx is crumbling
The cookies crumbled -
go to pieces
The gears wore out
The old chair finally fell apart completely
The lawn mower finally broke
How To Use fall apart In A Sentence
- The real choice is between becoming a fully fledged United States of Europe, or remaining little more than a modern-day Holy Roman Empire, a gimcrack hodgepodge of "variable geometry" that will sooner or later fall apart. The End of the Euro
- The surge reminds me so much of the movie "The Battle of Algiers" where a French paratroop unit seemingly secures Algiers, only to have their security completely fall apart only a few years later. Guarding the Surge Narrative While Iraq Burns « Antiwar.com Blog
- The instrument for this purpose is called a coherer, in which small particles cohere through the action of the electric waves, and are caused to fall apart mechanically, during the electrical impulses. Practical Mechanics for Boys
- When things fall apart, states still turn to Keynesianism.
- “But if she’s clean below, and doesn’t dismast or fall apart under the strain, and if we avoid digging her bow and flipping fore-and-aft — we might just be able to make it in thirty-six hours.” Conqueror's Moon
- Gradually the lives of all those touched by the 'affaire', as it becomes known, start to fall apart. Times, Sunday Times
- His survivors neither decisively pull together nor fall apart.
- The lamb rolls fall apart with the first prick of the fork.
- Like the first, it seemed to simply fall apart as it fell, dissolving into tiny, indetectable pieces. Objective: Bajor
- I had lost her face and I felt my own features fall apart like an old brick hotel in a Frisco earthquake.
