fell out

past tense of fall out

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of fell out The biggest glitch came nine weeks out when Andrew Garfield fell out of availability. Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 24 Oct. 2025 But language is always evolving, and these meanings fell out of use long ago. Literary Hub, 20 Oct. 2025 Single-family homes in San Diego County fell out of the $1 million club with Orange County in August. Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Oct. 2025 Geekie quickly fell out of ex-coach Jim Montgomery’s favor at the start of last season. Fluto Shinzawa, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2025 Trump had been friends with Epstein and his associate Ghislaine Maxwell for years before the two men fell out in the mid-2000s. Dan Mangan, CNBC, 7 Oct. 2025 But the game fell out of reach early in front of the second-smallest crowd of the season at Sutter Health Park. Chris Biderman, Sacbee.com, 26 Sep. 2025 Originally released as a cross-trainer in 1999, the Air Max Sunder garnered a cult following but fell out of Nike’s lineup until its return in 2024 (not counting an extremely limited Comme des Garçons collaboration from 2021). Ian Servantes, Footwear News, 24 Sep. 2025 And Beekman Place, the tiny, out-of-the-way East River enclave favored by the old-money crowd since Shipman and her society cohort transformed it into a fashionable spot in the 1920s, largely fell out of favor around 2000. Kim Velsey, Curbed, 22 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fell out
Verb
  • On 33 occasions since 2017, Congress has been forced to pass emergency extensions to the flood insurance program, as lawmakers bickered over budgets and looming shutdowns threatened to disrupt it, according to a letter the National Association of Realtors sent to Congress ahead of the shutdown.
    Rukmini Callimachi, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2025
  • In recent years, the companies have bickered about the rise of streaming services, in which the media companies are investing billions of dollars and which lure away cable and satellite customers.
    Brian Steinberg, Variety, 26 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Olive Garden has proved flexible in its strategy, with the brand testing lower price menu offerings currently in many of its locations.
    Lisa Kailai Han, CNBC, 20 Oct. 2025
  • After two hours of high-speed, eardrum-bursting laps around the winding track, Verstappen proved victorious, with McLaren’s Lando Norris and Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc finishing in second and third, respectively.
    Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 20 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The government’s lawyers argued the ruling effectively guts a statute aimed at reducing gun violence by preventing unlawful drug users from wielding firearms.
    Maureen Groppe, USA Today, 20 Oct. 2025
  • First, despite tabloid headlines about Leto, such noise doesn’t factor into moviegoers’ decisions to buy or not buy a ticket; it could be argued most were not even in the know of the June Air Mail exposé on his alleged behavior.
    Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline, 20 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The History Of Tomato Pudding Tomato pudding evolved as a way to use up summer's bounty of garden tomatoes.
    Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Southwestern ecosystems evolved to tolerate and even thrive amid low-intensity fires.
    Joan Meiners, AZCentral.com, 20 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The event was the latest public honoring of North Korean troops who fought in Russia to repel an incursion by Ukrainian forces.
    Reuters, NBC news, 24 Oct. 2025
  • In his remarks, Sures saluted his late father, who fought in Israel’s War of Independence in 1948.
    Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 24 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Mayor Sue Finkam found the dollars to quell many concerns from city councilors about the budget, but officials still quarreled over the transparency of some dollars earmarked for Carmel’s legal department.
    Jake Allen, IndyStar, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Franklin’s son and grandson quarreled.
    Stacy Schiff, The Atlantic, 8 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Protesters continued to clashed with law enforcement early Friday morning on Coast Guard Island in Alameda County, where CBP was supposed to stage before launching its Bay Area raids.
    Lia Russell, Sacbee.com, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Federal immigration officials have followed people in their cars, rappelled from helicopters in an apartment building raid, and clashed with protesters at a facility in the suburbs.
    Laura Daniella Sepulveda, AZCentral.com, 25 Oct. 2025

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“Fell out.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fell%20out. Accessed 26 Oct. 2025.

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