How to Use fall apart in a Sentence

fall apart

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  • This may have been one of our worst ideas based purely on how quickly the stock fell apart.
    — Josh Brown,sean Russo, CNBC, 29 June 2026
  • Russet potatoes will work instead of Yukon gold but are more likely to fall apart.
    — Kimberly Holland, Southern Living, 3 July 2026
  • And a business that is not ready falls apart under that scrutiny, dragging out the process or killing it entirely.
    — Lien De Pau, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026
  • Stardrum’s brushwork, sounding like a steam engine at low speed, keeps things from falling apart, but doesn’t put anything together, either.
    — Reed Jackson, SPIN, 3 July 2026
  • Whatever made the discussions fall apart, Meta still wants to tap into the prediction market craze.
    — Bobby Allyn, NPR, 30 June 2026
  • Things started to fall apart earlier this week, when the internet found out that Freddy had, in fact, been to America before.
    — Zach Dean Outkick, FOXNews.com, 1 July 2026
  • As muscles disappear and social hierarchies collapse, Jim embarks on a wild, campy quest to find a cure before his life falls apart completely.
    — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 2 July 2026
  • Little’s thriller follows Juno Hardwick, a former high-level national security employee whose life fell apart after her father died.
    — Raven Brunner, PEOPLE, 30 June 2026
  • The scheme fell apart on March 21, 2024, when Beasley failed to underperform on rebounds as planned in a game against the Brooklyn Nets, the feds say.
    — John Annese, New York Daily News, 29 June 2026
  • During servicing missions for the Hubble Space Telescope, astronauts found that a similar covering on the telescope was falling apart.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 3 July 2026
  • Needing 49 from 24 balls as the endgame loomed, England was still second favorite until Bishnoi fell apart and Bethell cashed in ruthlessly in the 17th.
    — ABC News, 4 July 2026
  • But Waymo’s breakthrough came from going deep enough to solve 99th-percentile problems (unexpected pedestrians, unmapped construction zones, nonverbal gestures) where surface-level automation falls apart and true understanding becomes nonnegotiable.
    — Mudit Garg, Forbes.com, 23 Feb. 2026

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