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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Watch the excuses fall away with this simple piece of equipment.
  — Men's Health, 2 May 2023
• The thing that nobody tells you about hair loss is that, while all those strands fall away, the hair that remains is impacted just as much.
  — Nicola Dall'asen, Allure, 4 Jan. 2022
• Farnsworth and others say the halcyon days of 1994 began to fall away just five years later.
  — Tracy Wilkinsonstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2022
• Even though the Tigers were within a fall away from the Utes, there was a strong sense the Utes weren’t going to give them that kind of mistake on such a big opening night.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 6 Jan. 2023
• The house was partially submerged, parts of it fell away and the rest was left precariously perched on the edge of a hill.
  — Eleonore Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Feb. 2023
• But those notes fell away as all of us — the studio, the network and the writers — realized what a smart bunch of folks were watching our show.
  — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 5 Oct. 2023
• Once each performance started, all else seemed to fall away.
  — Los Angeles Times, 15 Feb. 2023
• The meaning that women attach to men, their husbands, their homes, and what happens when those things fall away.
  — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2022
• Except now even that marker of prestige has started to fall away.
  — oregonlive, 17 Nov. 2020

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024