How to Use nervous breakdown in a Sentence

nervous breakdown

noun

• He is on the verge of a nervous breakdown.
• She had a nervous breakdown shortly after her sister's death.
• So that brings it back to the concept of a nervous breakdown.
  — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 5 Oct. 2022
• This woman on the verge of a nervous breakdown is running the line like the Navy.
  — Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 10 Sep. 2024
• Phoenix’s Joe is a leg breaker on the verge of a nervous breakdown.
  — Gary Thompson, Philly.com, 11 Apr. 2018
• Adulthood comes in the form of flatscreen TVs and public nervous breakdowns.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 2 May 2024
• In the second half of the story, the soldier-writer has left Esme’s town, gone to the front and suffered a nervous breakdown.
  — Lauren Markham, Longreads, 7 June 2018
• Gohil succumbed to a nervous breakdown in 2002 due to the stress of keeping up with a fake image.
  — NBC News, 30 Jan. 2018
• Who in his or her right mind would want to relive the year of our collective nervous breakdown?
  — Barbara Vandenburgh, USA TODAY, 12 Nov. 2021
• Although the guy who installed the tile almost had a nervous breakdown.
  — Christine Pittel, House Beautiful, 5 Dec. 2013
• Europe is a continent on the verge of a nervous breakdown.
  — Jason Horowitz, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Sep. 2023
• When Marie Kondo was 16 years old, the clutter in her messy bedroom drove her to a nervous breakdown.
  — Kate Storey, Good Housekeeping, 5 Jan. 2016
• My adult son suffered a nervous breakdown a couple of years ago.
  — Jeanne Phillips, The Mercury News, 1 Feb. 2024
• Jamie harbors his own guilt for having left Iraq in the wake of a nervous breakdown before the bombing.
  — Kerry Reid, chicagotribune.com, 22 Feb. 2018
• Meanwhile, Randall is just one day away from the birth of his first child—a month after his first nervous breakdown.
  — Candice Frederick, Harper's BAZAAR, 1 Nov. 2017
• But this film about a woman on the verge of a nervous breakdown lacks the epic sweep, neat plot and Tennessee Williams-like pathos of the earlier film.
  — Laura Demarco, cleveland.com, 11 Dec. 2017
• Chief anaesthetist Jacob, caught in the trailer, is near to nervous breakdown.
  — John Hopewell, Variety, 1 Feb. 2022
• Link ends up in the car with Jo, who is having a nervous breakdown trying to be a single mother to Luna.
  — Lincee Ray, EW.com, 1 Oct. 2021
• Lawrence wants to call it off, but June, who's on the brink of a nervous breakdown and holding onto the gun Lawrence had given her, informs him he's no longer in charge.
  — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 14 Aug. 2019
• With The Coin, Zaher creates a hypnotic portrait of a woman on the verge of a nervous breakdown.
  — Shannon Carlin, TIME, 22 May 2024
• When Thomas was a toddler, his mother had a nervous breakdown, and he and a sister were sent to live in an orphanage for more than a year.
  — New York Times, 11 Jan. 2021
• Her chapters on greed and lust and more apply to nervous breakdowns, break-room donuts and the unbreakable glass ceiling.
  — Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times, 29 Apr. 2023
• After a nervous breakdown, Walter trades the city for the countryside.
  — Jacob Siegal, BGR, 28 Aug. 2022
• His father died before he was born, and because his mother, Clemence, had a nervous breakdown, he was sent to live with his aunt in France.
  — Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 Feb. 2021
• His mother, who worked as a spinner in Dundee’s vast jute mills, suffered a series of nervous breakdowns.
  — Town & Country, 21 Feb. 2023
• Next up, a career in banking, only a nervous breakdown came first.
  — Lili Anolik, Vanities, 14 Dec. 2017
• His wife has a nervous breakdown, Henry ends up with his best friend’s wife, and a drug dealer ends up with Henry’s briefcase.
  — Gege Reed, The Courier-Journal, 14 Feb. 2018
• Wilson famously retired from the road in 1964 after a nervous breakdown on a flight to Houston to open a Beach Boys tour.
  — Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 8 June 2022
• In short, the Republican Party needs to have a nervous breakdown, get therapy and come to terms with the modern world.
  — Fareed Zakaria, CNN, 16 May 2021
• People on the verge of a nervous breakdown go sit by this roadside river (the best stretch is in Elkmont, Tenn.) and feel a whole lot better afterward.
  — Kathryn O’Shea-Evans, WSJ, 12 Apr. 2018

Last Updated: 19 Dec 2024