How to Use fall through in a Sentence

fall through

verb
  • By year’s end, the deal fell through.
    — Joseph Konig, PEOPLE, 6 May 2026
  • Or because the meet-and-greet lunch fell through?
    — Judith Martin, Mercury News, 9 Apr. 2026
  • Both of those bids fell through, and no other bids have been near as high.
    — Jesse Wright, Chicago Tribune, 28 Apr. 2026
  • John came up with the idea to sell socks after plans to open a food truck fell through.
    — Abigail Adams, PEOPLE, 30 June 2026
  • Once on the clock, however, the trade fell through.
    — Michael Silver, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2026
  • Dane says the idea came about last summer when his solo tour fell through.
    — Marissa Sulek, CBS News, 26 Aug. 2026
  • The round, too small for the shotgun, fell through the gun’s barrel.
    — Alula Alderson, Sacbee.com, 25 June 2026
  • The Heat will be poised to pounce if the right player falls through the cracks.
    — Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 29 June 2026
  • Dane had been set to go on a summerlong solo tour, but plans fell through.
    — Tess Kenny, Chicago Tribune, 18 July 2026
  • Our systems have cracks, and people fall through them every day.
    — Yujia Zhu, Forbes.com, 28 July 2026
  • Hawthorne proposed racinos at both sites, but both plans fell through.
    — Robert McCoppin, Chicago Tribune, 27 May 2026
  • And even the rain that steadily fell through the day and evening couldn’t dampen that feeling.
    — Althea Legaspi, Rolling Stone, 1 Aug. 2026
  • The tracking device is dropped through a tube out of the aircrafts floor and falls through the storm clouds.
    — Scott Withers, CBS News, 31 May 2026
  • There is nothing new at the Capitol about plans falling through.
    — Mark Pazniokas, Hartford Courant, 2 May 2026
  • This isn't a governance gap that fell through the cracks of a single function.
    — Jeppe Rindom, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
  • Straker said two potential deals to sell the business fell through.
    — Suzanne Le Mignot, CBS News, 6 Aug. 2026
  • Those happy plans fell through because Carrie found out.
    — Sabrina Reed, Forbes.com, 19 June 2026
  • The egg whites will fall through the slots in the spoon and into the bowl below while the yolk remains in the spoon.
    — Taylor Tobin, Southern Living, 27 Aug. 2026
  • Projects previously pitched at that site have fallen through.
    — Sofi Zeman, Kansas City Star, 4 June 2026
  • For sellers, an all-cash offer means less risk that financing will fall through and derail the deal.
    — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 31 Aug. 2026
  • So what might make it to Earth during Swift's speedy fall through the atmosphere?
    — Leonard David, Space.com, 27 Aug. 2026
  • Critics of deregulation worry about what may fall through the cracks.
    — Nicola M White, Bloomberg, 7 Apr. 2026
  • Plans would fall through, and people would enter and exit the picture who never felt like the right fit for the place.
    — Angela Andaloro, PEOPLE, 6 June 2026
  • Builders can’t build cheaply enough to generate the loan sizes that fall through the cracks of the mortgage system.
    — Jake Angelo, Fortune, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Humidity levels will fall through the night.
    — Tony Sadiku, CBS News, 12 June 2026
  • The expansion that fell through was picked up next door by a rival hyperscaler within weeks.
    — Güney Yıldız, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2026
  • But Sullivan said there will be no big summer free agent spending splurge on free agents who fall through the cracks.
    — Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 15 Apr. 2026
  • In the clip, the two actors stumble backwards into the glass before falling through and out of the frame.
    — Angelique Jackson, Variety, 4 Apr. 2026
  • Sheets of rain fell through halftime as thousands of fans huddled in the concourse and under balconies.
    — ABC News, 22 June 2026
  • During their search of the building, a firefighter fell through the first floor into the basement, but was not hurt.
    — Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 28 Aug. 2026

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