Sentence examples for bridge crumbles from inspiring English sources

With every thump from the 70,000 vehicles that roll over it each day, the bridge crumbles a little more.

Then, after standing alone against the enemy as the bridge crumbles, Horatius swims through the Tiber in full armor to the Roman shore.

"Twelve!" he shouted, raising his arms like a referee as the first bridge crumbled.

The role of politics explains much for instance, how billions of dollars were earmarked for a transportation-hub folly while the Tappan Zee Bridge crumbled.

"You do the maths — over 30 vehicles fell when the bridge crumbled and we haven't got to them all so there will be more," Luca Cari, the firefighters' spokesman, told The Times at the scene.

This week alone a ceiling collapsed at the weightlifting venue and a bridge crumbled outside the main staging ground, Nehru Stadium, injuring 27.

We've seen the tragic consequences when our bridges crumble and our levees fail.

But even students whose bridges crumbled under far less weight seemed to enjoy the contest and the opportunity to get to know their new classmates.

Patrick Keiller's "Robinson in Ruins," a historical essay on the rise and fall of capitalism built around the adventures of an unseen fictional protagonist, is composed of lingering glances at road signs, old bridges, crumbling houses and other everyday vistas.

Driving from central Pennsylvania to Massachusetts, for example, you see an American heartland slowly emptying of opportunity: roads and bridges crumbling even without the recent spending cuts, once-confident businesses shuttered, "now hiring" signs eerily absent.

The prosperity that enabled Bennett and McClendon's (imaginatively named) Professional Basketball Club LLC to move the team in the first place has dissipated, leaving behind a state in which bridges crumble and public schools operate only four days per week.