Sentence examples for gradually crumbled from inspiring English sources

(The Wall didn't so much fall or collapse before a chorus of ram's horns as it gradually crumbled and got dispersed, onto faraway shelves and mantles).

The porous travertine has gradually crumbled over time and its pores have filled with soot and particles of sand, causing it to blacken and providing a habitat for small organisms, such as moss and lichens.

The most important changes I see are these old neighborhoods that are gradually crumbling.

Jac's self-confidence and happiness gradually crumble as the cruelty intensifies, until she is finally forced to take action and stand up to the bully.

In addition, climate change has increased precipitation, adding more moisture to the soil that freezes and expands, gradually crumbling the concrete piles.

The Scot took the first set on Centre Court but was taken apart by the Swiss after that, gradually crumbling to a 3-1 defeas as Federer took a record-equalling seventh SW19 title.

But the whole structure gradually crumbles and ends up with the children being in the most literal sense of the word "taken" into care - by force, in a railway station.

Thaïs's pose gradually crumbles during Act II, as her fear of death and inevitable loss of youth and beauty triggers a scene of angry defiance, even hysterical denial of Athanaël.

"Should groundsmen be neutral and be assigned to each Test with the purpose of enforcing a result wicket that gradually crumbles to loose topsoil on the final day?" says Ian Copestake.

The interesting question is whether pot will become an issue like same-sex marriage, which went from politically taboo to widely embraced in a few years, and where opposition is gradually crumbling as the population ages, or more like abortion, where the electorate remains evenly divided on the issue decades after the Roe v. Wade decision.

Nearby houses are gradually crumbling from the vibrations, as are many of the buildings throughout Sierra Leone's fifth-largest city.