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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a crumbling" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is deteriorating or falling apart, often in a physical or metaphorical sense.
Example: "The old castle stood as a testament to history, its walls a crumbling reminder of a bygone era."
Alternatives: "a decaying" or "a deteriorating".
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It's a crumbling ruin now.
Its infrastructure is a crumbling disaster.
I ask, pointing to a crumbling shack.
"He is propping up a crumbling empire.
And it wasn't a crumbling from the legs, but a crumbling from the head".
The problem was traced to a crumbling outer wall.
("A crumbling monument to the failure of the New Deal").
He finally stopped at a crumbling warehouse by the bay.
Their town outside of Moscow, Dmitrov, was a crumbling backwater.
Two blocks away, there is a crumbling cemetery.
We took a break at a crumbling archery ground in the village of Lango.
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