Sentence examples for crumbling foundation from inspiring English sources

Fluted columns pose heroically on a romantically crumbling foundation.

Conclusion: The future of the Crown in an age of uncertainty : sempiternal or crumbling foundation?

One, a two-family colonial with a crumbling foundation and raccoons living in the attic, required fixes totaling more than $400,000.

There's another exit poll result that points to the crumbling foundation of the GOP: among voters who said a president should "compromise", Romney won.

The next generation of Federal road building, officials say, will be work to shore up the crumbling foundation of the last one.

In the northwest corner, the crumbling foundation of a Cornwall pest house, whose inhabitants subsisted through the winter on maple sugar, lies in a dark hollow by an old Indian trail.

Series like "Flipped Off," "Holmes Inspection" and "Flip Men" feast on the drama of unexpected house repairs like cracked pipes and crumbling foundations.

Last winter they decided to hunt for something completely different — a brand-new condominium, where they wouldn't have to worry about crumbling foundations.

And behind them along Bergen Street and Underhill Avenue a blanket of too-tall grass hides crumbling foundations of houses once begun but never completed.

Given that we can't even maintain our existing infrastructure, I wonder: How does our real-estate-obsessed city plan to provide services for the new office towers and luxury condos being built upon our crumbling foundations?

Nearly seven months after a highway bridge collapsed in Minneapolis, a federal commission put a jaw-dropping price tag on starting to attend to America's crumbling foundations: $225 billion a year for the next 50 years just to maintain and upgrade surface transportation.