Sentence examples for left to crumble from inspiring English sources

Great swaths of the city have been left to crumble, or return to pasture.

The town stopped in its tracks, its colonial architecture left to crumble.

Thus ended Spain's early foray, its lonely churches left to crumble.

Once a labyrinthine seaside market where Qataris traded fish and goats, the market was abandoned, then left to crumble.

The cloister of the Jerónimos, as it's called, long a local wreck, became cannon fodder for the French 200 years ago and was left to crumble under Franco.

For all the rhetoric of fixing the roof, it is the foundations of the economy that are being left to crumble".

"Progress commandeered nineteenth-century buildings and then, as the economy weakened, left them to crumble behind fences that showed conceptual drawings of new ways of living, where blurred illustrations of humans lingered in paved squares that looked neither public nor private".

At a certain point "Bamboozled," like so many satires, has nowhere left to go and begins crumbling into melodrama.

Far too often, schools are tasked with bearing the burden of budget cuts, left to deal with a crumbling structure, understaffed facilities, and inadequate materials.

The proposed changes would hand control of most of the £100 billion, or nearly $163 billion, annual health budget to the service's 42,000 general practitioners and, critics argue, they would propel the public health system into the arms of private service providers who would cherry-pick the most lucrative parts, leaving other parts to crumble.

The artworks either celebrate or beg comparison with Olmsted's complex and subtle 19th-century vision; in a few cases they direct a contemporary spotlight on his left-to-crumble ideas.