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
  • The two fall apart when people are working hard on things that don't move the needle.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 7 July 2026
  • Get that transition wrong, and the whole concept falls apart.
    — New Atlas, 13 July 2026
  • You are allowed to fall apart in the car and then walk back into the house and keep going.
    — Meredith Wilshere, PEOPLE, 15 Aug. 2026
  • Milton's kicker appeared to be caught off guard, and the play fell apart on a turnover on downs.
    — Jack Leo, AJC.com, 28 Aug. 2026
  • Many kids who fall apart at the door recover soon after their parents leave.
    — Ashley Lynch, Sacbee.com, 6 Aug. 2026
  • Shoes that are falling apart aren’t going to support someone else’s feet.
    — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 16 Aug. 2026
  • Fifty years later, one of their daughters tries to understand where things fell apart.
    — Zach Dennis, Charlotte Observer, 21 Aug. 2026
  • In a screenplay structured in three acts, that’s the point at which everything falls apart.
    — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 21 July 2026
  • But everything fell apart in 2023, his third year in the league.
    — Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 19 Aug. 2026
  • Russet potatoes will work instead of Yukon gold but are more likely to fall apart.
    — Kimberly Holland, Southern Living, 3 July 2026
  • If Iceland votes yes, things could still fall apart in the months-long talks to reach a formal agreement.
    — Lauren Kent, CNN Money, 28 Aug. 2026
  • Several cars went onto pit road, and that's when the day started to fall apart for Palou.
    — CBS News, 23 Aug. 2026
  • The two have held talks in recent months, and a deal could still be delayed or fall apart, according to the report.
    — Anniek Bao, CNBC, 3 Aug. 2026
  • But if it is granted, the deal tends to fall apart before the underlying case can go to trial.
    — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 20 July 2026
  • But the process falls apart when a company has to scale up, delegate, or is mostly remote.
    — K.h. Koehler, USA Today, 21 Aug. 2026
  • Now to the other end of the barbell, with the software name that continued as a growth stock as most software stocks fell apart.
    — Todd Gordon, CNBC, 8 July 2026
  • That deal fell apart within weeks after Iran started attacking ships.
    — ABC News, 28 Aug. 2026
  • If Latu isn’t a game-changer up front, Indy’s defense will fall apart at the point of attack.
    — James Boyd, New York Times, 23 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
  • Again, this data is not the profile of a business obviously falling apart.
    — Jim Osman, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026
  • The exteriors were falling apart, the columns were falling apart.
    — Paloma Chavez, PEOPLE, 19 Aug. 2026
  • As their ambitions escalate, the village threatens to fall apart.
    — John Hopewell, Variety, 10 Aug. 2026
  • But now the story has fallen apart, and Fox is barely interested.
    — Brian Stelter, CNN Money, 4 Aug. 2026
  • However, this promise can fall apart if the material itself fails too soon.
    — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 26 July 2026
  • The first night, one date ends with an awkward non-kiss, and two more fall apart when a scheduling mix-up exposes Roy’s scheme.
    — Keith Phipps, Vulture, 26 Aug. 2026
  • In marketing, the brief has always been where strategy crystallizes or falls apart.
    — Laiba Tariq, Forbes.com, 27 July 2026
  • She’d been forced to move into her dad’s house in Ohio since her life fell apart in the spring, in no small part because of Donnie.
    — Juliet Linderman, Fortune, 16 July 2026
  • Prior’s trip amounted to more of a breather than anything else, as the Dodgers could not afford the inning falling apart.
    — Fabian Ardaya, New York Times, 26 Aug. 2026
  • The group held it together well enough in the first two games of the series to secure wins but fell apart in Thursday’s finale.
    — Meghan Montemurro, Chicago Tribune, 10 July 2026

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