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The phrase "about to be crushed" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation where something is on the verge of being physically or metaphorically overwhelmed or defeated.
Example: "The old car was parked too close to the construction site, and it looked like it was about to be crushed by the falling debris."
Alternatives: "on the brink of being crushed" or "nearly crushed."
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While I'm not about to be crushed to death by the weight of my helicopter collection or anything, I've picked up a flyer or five in my days.
Think of a peanut between two molars, about to be crushed.
Listening to his fourth album, Ghettoville, can feel as if you're in a dystopia, about to be crushed into pulp by a Terminator.
The New York Post was widely criticized for publishing a picture of a man about to be crushed by a subway train — and we were criticized for rerunning it in a piece about The Post's cover.
By the time I reached it I was starting to fall into such a state of nauseous alienation that I saw Kinski as a symbol of Art, about to be crushed by the lethal glamour of Money and the Market.
In 1989, after a worker at a salvage yard in Sullivan County, N.Y., found the corpse of a baby in a suitcase in a car that was about to be crushed, the car was traced to Ms. O'Dell.
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And there's something admirable about Huxley's refusal to be crushed by the obliteration of a large part of his past.
Another such legend about Vishnuvardhana ordering the Jains to be crushed in an oil mill doesn't appear to be historically true.
He tries not to fret about Eli being crushed by his legend.
When an exit door slams halfway through his song about dreams being crushed, his ad lib – "Which one of you cunts just left?" – is fiercely funny.
I didn't think about homes being crushed and dreams being crushed".
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