How to Use fall away in a Sentence

fall away

verb

• The longer one looks at the picture, the more the text falls away and the footwork comes forth.
  — Angelica Aboulhosn, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Sep. 2023
• Here are six books that can—like a good movie—make the rest of the world fall away.
  — Fran Hoepfner, The Atlantic, 9 Oct. 2024
• The rhythm of the Olympics is that all the fears fall away after the first night and the party begins.
  — NBC News, 27 July 2024
• But as it’s brushed clean, the mass falls away, revealed as a clump of dirt.
  — Jo Marchant, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 June 2024
• In the distance, the level sands of the Gobi fell away as far as the eye could see.
  — Aatish Taseer, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2023
• The bad nerves fell away on a quick grade to calmness and resolve.
  — John Ganz, Harper's Magazine, 22 May 2024
• Set the tart pan on a bowl so the sides fall away or unlatch the springform side and lift it off.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 30 Mar. 2021
• State of the Union Union Berlin was supposed to have fallen away by now.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2023
• At the same time, in many parts of Europe, taboos have been falling away.
  — Annabelle Timsit, Washington Post, 28 June 2024
• After it’s launched, the words fall away, and something else goes on.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Jan. 2023
• Over the last few years, that image has begun to fall away.
  — Sakshi Venkatraman, NBC News, 11 Mar. 2023
• The first seasons focused more on Sam’s love life and then that seemed to fall away.
  — New York Times, 25 Apr. 2022
• That tune climbed to a peak of No. 35 before falling away.
  — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 12 Sep. 2024
• The set debuted on the charts this spring and quickly fell away.
  — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024
• When getting into a room like that with all that clutter—the shape of the room just falls away.
  — Diane Williams, Harper's Magazine, 8 Feb. 2022
• Once Antonoff saw the Maid star, all anxieties fell away.
  — Sadie Bell, Peoplemag, 2 Nov. 2023
• Inside, parts of the ceiling are chipped and falling away.
  — J.d. Morris, San Francisco Chronicle, 31 Mar. 2023
• Those that can, innovate and those that can’t, fall away.
  — Katherine J Igoe, Marie Claire, 13 Oct. 2020
• To be deeply attentive to one thing is, of course, to let others fall away.
  — Hari Kunzru, Harper's Magazine, 22 June 2021
• The planks that rested on top of the support fell away, and Osorio fell through the catwalk.
  — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 15 Feb. 2024
• For the first time in his adult life, Stetson Bennett IV spent a fall away from football.
  — Adam Grosbard, Orange County Register, 28 May 2024
• Worse, one of those wins falls away when those fighters compete against younger foes.
  — Trent Reinsmith, Forbes, 15 Feb. 2024
• But over several listens, the backstory starts to fall away, and the song as a whole sinks in.
  — Mark Richardson, Pitchfork, 2 Nov. 2023
• Larson didn’t have the fastest car, just one that got out front at the right time while other top contenders fell away.
  — Pete Iacobelli, USA TODAY, 4 Sep. 2023
• Once the Grammy winner saw the Maid star, though, all his anxieties fell away.
  — Julia Moore, Peoplemag, 7 Dec. 2023
• Many of the strictures of the Taliban did fall away, and thousands of girls and women were allowed to attend school and take jobs.
  — Kevin Liptak, CNN, 23 Aug. 2021
• But as that falls away, stress and anxiety have increased.
  — Tribune Content Agency, The Mercury News, 25 Sep. 2024
• Now, as the economy slows, many of the costs that drove inflation have fallen away.
  — Michael Grabell, ProPublica, 3 May 2023
• Almost all have fallen away except for one: events in the cockpit.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 6 Mar. 2023
• Mortar is falling away from the bricks and cracks run through the exterior walls.
  — Dallas News, 17 Feb. 2023

Last Updated: 2 Dec 2024