Sentence examples for it crumbles away from inspiring English sources

It pushes and pushes and pushes until it crumbles away in its final ten seconds.

It crumbles away in your hands.

Atkinson is terrific at setting the stage for her story; she just hasn't given it a very good foundation, and eventually it crumbles away to nothing.

In Las Vegas, a particularly bad meal at Mix, an Alain Ducasse restaurant, leaves him with a momentary crisis of conscience: A tranche of seared foie gras is so overcooked, it crumbles away in the mouth.

One allows us to neglect the present world and let it crumble away while we focus on our own eternal glory.

"And so it goes, and so do we, from recitals to reunions to anniversaries, round and round and round again, and so we all move on as it all crumbles away like sand".

Victorian statuary crumbles away.

Legal despotism eventually crumbles away.

Take a building which slowly crumbles away to nothing.

The water, albeit in smaller volumes, continues to flow, forming unstable layers of snow, slush and ice (see 2 08 when Gadd sinks his hooks into a piece of snow that simply crumbles away).

More mundanely, formation and decay are gradual processes for many kinds of object, both natural and artificial: think of a lake or haystack which gradually comes into existence, or a building or a rock formation which slowly crumbles away.