His whole world collapsed right in front of him.

Do you wonder why the world is collapsing around us?

He looked down, the world around him collapsed to a space even smaller than the cabin.

By tomorrow, probably, his whole world will have collapsed around him.

He felt as if the entire world had collapsed.

And her own world, it seemed, had just collapsed in ruins.

Each basically knows," he said, "that the world will collapse if I am suddenly not here anymore.

Onot felt as if his entire world collapsed all at once.

Alex's world collapsed around him before he could act, or even find out for certain what he'd made.

For the Oriental, it was as if the world around him collapsed.