Sentence examples for before it crumbled from inspiring English sources

A few hundred yards away, Xue scrambled out of her home seconds before it crumbled only to discover that her fiancé had been buried by a landslide.

And I will find a photo of the World Trade Center -- before it crumbled -- and tack it on my office wall.

Even though authorities became aware of serious cracks in Rana Plaza the day before it crumbled on April 24, workers who died in the collapse had been forced to clock in under the threat of seeing their pay docked.

In the first Mayweather-Pacquiao talks that began in 2009, Espinoza was the lead lawyer for Golden Boy Promotions, trying to craft a deal with Arum that was nearly done before it crumbled when the fighters couldn't agree on a drug-testing policy.

Or in Liberia, to try to shore up West Africa before it crumbles as well?

There are fewer explosions and Nazis (except as subjects) – but the job does involve a lot of travel and fighting to get your hands on historical evidence before it crumbles, is stolen or gets shredded.

New Zealander photographer Bas van Est takes eerily beautiful images of old Doha before it crumbles in the face of relentless development.

It may end with an industry too bloated by profit and too arrogant to pay the costs of its mistakes — and a president who is deaf to the sound an energy empire makes before it crumbles.

When the old Cocoon does fall, Hope and Sazh manage to rescue Vanille and Fang from the crystal pillar before it crumbles.

An artist who had injured both his hands sobbed when he tried to show me the work he had just completed before the quake, and it crumbled into shards of clay when he moved it.

That was before it all crumbled.