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Discover LudwigThe phrase "face crumbled" is correct and can be used in written English
It is typically used to describe the physical expression of a character when they experience emotional distress. For example, "The little girl's face crumbled when she found out her pet had run away."
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Maisha charged forward and screeched at Baba until his stern face crumbled into a sheepish grin.
Twenty minutes later, though, his face crumbled; Hackl surrendered to his emotions.
His impressions of his wife, his older children (his youngest were born after he lost his sight) and his own face crumbled.
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His face crumbles in defeat.
Following closely behind he asks, "So what has she been doing?" My face crumbles as I begin to weep.
Simon Armstrong's craggy face crumbles a little at each new romantic, professional or philosophical disappointment, but this cliff is buttressed by a granite self-regard that even Célimène's unworthiness, and his failure to hate her for it, cannot erode.
Q. -- Mr. Vice President, in the school district in which I work and in countless others across the nation, we face crumbling school buildings, increased school violence, student apathy, overcrowding, lack of funding, lawsuits, the list goes on.
Some of the film's strongest scenes involve Theodore's failed marriage – he doesn't want to let go, even if he knows he should – and when the final nail is hammered in, his face crumbles only subtly, his eyes sinking into heartbreak.
But his teenage resolve to present a brave face crumbles when we ask what he was able to eat.
Immediately, her face crumbles inward like she is sucking on a lemon.
When I told someone who hadn't heard that she had died, I watched his face crumble with the sadness that one sees only when one regrets the loss of a special person.
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