Sentence examples for Crumbling from inspiring English sources

The word 'crumbling' is correct and commonly used in written English
It can be used as an adjective or a verb to describe the process of something slowly falling apart or disintegrating. Example 1 (adjective): The old, abandoned house was in a state of crumbling decay, with its roof caving in and its walls covered in moss. Example 2 (verb): As he walked through the ancient ruins, he could hear the sound of stone crumbling beneath his feet. Example 3 (verb): The company's profits were slowly crumbling as they struggled to adapt to the changing market trends.

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Crumbling

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Present participle of crumble

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If you want to jazz it up, add a crumbling of feta one day.

"That problem has been temporarily rectified by the local authority paying for a concrete specialist company to simply knock off the crumbling concrete and painting the exposed metal underneath".

So called "Treppenläufe" (stair runs) in between the concrete stands of the crumbling Parkstadion where the Royal Blues conduct their training sessions have been added to the daily curriculum.

The long Hollywood lineage of films about the FBI bringing rich, unreachable men to justice has lent a distinct movie-like quality to the crumbling of Sepp Blatter and Fifa, from the dawn arrests of accused high-ups at their five-star Zurich hotel, through the criminal confessions of Chuck Blazer, to the still pinch-yourself moment the president announced his fall.

By Shakespeare's time, the church was already nearly 500 years old, crammed with crumbling tombs and memorials, some of them dating back to the Crusades.

Then as now, Shoreditch was crumbling and crowded.

New Orleans' Marigny Opera House is classy for all kinds of reasons: it's a church with a mission to support the work of local artists, it is close to the couple's home, it is crumbling, artfully, and it is seriously in demand – the website explains that it is "only occasionally available for a limited number of wedding ceremonies".

There's the bogus professor, the major trading on old glory, the hint of dangerous foreigners, and Mrs W is, of course, Britain: living in a crumbling, crooked, subsiding house stuffed with reminders of naval glories.

Once a key economic motor in Zimbabwe with a cityscape and infrastructure to match, the city is crumbling, and more people than ever live in makeshift slums.

But it also proved an early lesson in the joys of free-floating; what might have been a disaster became two extraordinary weeks of wild thunderstorms, crumbling neo-classical architecture, and the remarkable kindness of strangers.

The sensational 150km dirt track from the remote northern town of Chachapoyas to Celelendín climbed up to a height of more than 4,000m before descending along a crumbling ledge clinging to a sheer precipice.

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