Sentence examples for building tumbled from inspiring English sources

Then sections of the building tumbled into the growing hole.

Spending on private home building tumbled 4.1 percent, with private nonresidential outlays dipping 0.5 percent.

In the first half of the 20th century, the Rembrandt's elaborate entry was shorn off, stores were inserted, and the building tumbled several rungs down the social ladder.

But some things are known for certain: it was a beloved literary hangout and a storied old place called Chumley's, which opened as a speakeasy in the 1920s and was forced to close its doors in 2007 when the facade of its building tumbled in the street along with pieces of an adjoining building.

High-wire fences still surround pockets of land where buildings tumbled.

It was an important Roman town, but deliberately abandoned in the 7th century, its wells blocked up and its buildings tumbled, and never reoccupied.

The buildings tumble down the hillside to the sea and house about 40 guest rooms.

Their efforts were hampered by a number of fresh aftershocks which sent masonry from a number of unstable buildings tumbling.

A powerful earthquake shook southern Peru today, killing at least 40 people and sending dozens of homes, churches and buildings tumbling to the ground, officials said.

We kept seeing the image of the World Trade Center buildings tumbling down in a hurricane of debris, concrete, steel and asbestos -- but no people.

4 Quake Rocks Southern Peru A powerful earthquake measured at magnitude 7.9 shook southern Peru, killing at least 40 people and sending dozens of homes, churches and buildings tumbling to the ground, officials said.