world collapses

Frequency: 5.54.0 per million words

Often used figuratively for a person's personal life or society.

worldNOUN + VERB

Categories:

collapse

Examples (10)

  • His world collapsed when his wife died.
  • For many, their financial world collapsed overnight with the market crash.
  • She felt her safe world collapsing around her when she heard the devastating news.
  • If the global economic world collapses, the consequences will be severe.
  • The sudden betrayal caused his emotional world to collapse.
  • Without mutual trust, a relationship's fragile world can easily collapse.
  • The child's imaginative world collapsed when he learned the truth about magic.
  • They feared their stable political world would collapse under the new leadership.
  • It's devastating when your carefully constructed personal world collapses.
  • He watched as his once-secure world slowly collapsed into chaos.