Sentence examples for breakdown looms from inspiring English sources

Breakdown looms, and ruin.

As breakdown looms, it's a chance encounter with an elderly Holocaust survivor that sends Winkler careening over the edge.

Now, as fears of a possible Brexit breakdown loom, he is leading the assault on the judiciary.

But I felt and understood the picture my grandfather painted in 1950 even before I laid eyes on it; it was painted as the family crisis escalated and my grandmother Mary's impending breakdown loomed like an invisible wraith inside the home, something you could sense more than see.

There were times we'd gather in smaller, informal settings as needed: if one of us had a crisis, an upcoming job interview, an impending mental breakdown, or looming unemployment – which nearly every one of us had faced at one point or another.

In my first calamities, I thought I knew without much training and only a little prompting from my editors what to expect: helplessness among the victims, looting, social breakdown, and the looming threat of disease.

In my first calamities, I thought I knew – without much training and only a little prompting from my editors – what to expect: helplessness among the victims, looting and social breakdown, and the looming threat of disease.

But it is better for the country that Labour has its looming nervous breakdown in opposition.

They warn that the current pension portrayals mask a looming fiscal breakdown as more and more public workers retire, threatening taxpayers whose own retirement plans have been shredded since 2008.

Looming climate breakdown is opening fresh divisions among environmentalists over nuclear energy, with a major advocacy group calling for struggling nuclear plants to be propped up to avoid losing their low-carbon power.

The attempt to organise wide-scale civil disobedience around the looming climate breakdown comes just weeks after three people were jailed – and then released – for anti-fracking campaigns in the UK.