falling-out
a quarrel or estrangement between persons formerly in close association with one another.
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How to use falling-out in a sentence
Where these laser-like missiles are falling out of the sky onto a city and you have to stop each of them from hitting the targets?
Coffee Talk with Ethan Hawke: On ‘Boyhood,’ Jennifer Lawrence, and Bill Clinton’s Urinal Exchange | Marlow Stern | December 27, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTWe have to use common sense inclusiveness, because we are quickly getting to a place where our brain is falling out.
White, upper-middle-class, Ivy-League educated white men, however Great they are, are falling out of power.
A Few Great Men Too Many: Aaron Sorkin Doesn’t Think You Can Handle the Truth | Arthur Chu | December 21, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTFor reasons Lehman may someday wish to enumerate, he and Hitchcock had a falling out.
Alfred Hitchcock’s Fade to Black: The Great Director’s Final Days | David Freeman | December 13, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThere were pictures of me crying, pictures of my hair falling out, pictures of me injecting myself with needles.
Some of them are found to have but one tusk, the other being torn out in fighting with each other, or falling out through age.
Buffon's Natural History. Volume IX (of 10) | Georges Louis Leclerc de BuffonHaving lost several tie pins by theft or by their falling out I made a little device to securely hold the pin in the tie.
The Boy Mechanic, Book 2 | VariousThe pin was bent at one end so as to keep it from falling out and the other end fitted with two nuts.
The Boy Mechanic, Book 2 | VariousHer mother wound an arm about her to keep her from falling out.
The Child of Pleasure | Gabriele D'AnnunzioOnce in a while we have a falling out, but not often, 'cause I won't quarrel.
We Ten | Lyda Farrington Kraus
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